Staff Software Engineer: AI‑Driven Systems Leader

PayPal, Inc.; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Healthcare coverage

Paid time off

Financial wellbeing resources

Job summary

PayPal, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead projects, design scalable systems, and code with a strong foundation in Java and AI-enabled tooling.

You will mentor engineers, coordinate with product managers, designers, and remote teams across time zones to deliver reliable software. The role emphasizes hands-on coding, architecture, and staying current with AI/ML advances, including using AI tools to boost velocity and quality.

Qualifications

• 5+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.

Responsibilities

• Acts as a project or system leader, coordinating the activities of other engineers on the project or within the system
• Determines the technical tasks that other engineers will follow
• Actions result in the achievement of customer, operational, program or service objectives
• Proactively improves existing structures & processes
• Exercises judgement in reconciling diverse and competing priorities (time, quality, complexity risk) to identify optimal solutions to problems
• Notices patterns and condenses repetition into densely meaningful generalized solutions
• Collaborates with management to set/improve standards for engineering rigor
• Trusted to represent PayPal, Inc to the outside world via interactions with partners, customers, or industry organizations

Skills

Java

OO-based design

Spring

Hibernate

REST

Maven

GitHub

Distributed systems

Database design

JUnit/TestNG

Full-SDLC

Cross-timezone collaboration

QA automation

Full-stack development

Education

Bachelor's/Master's in Computer Science/Engineering/Mathematics

Tools

GitHub

Job description

PayPal, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead projects, design scalable systems, and code with a strong foundation in Java and AI-enabled tooling.

You will mentor engineers, coordinate with product managers, designers, and remote teams across time zones to deliver reliable software. The role emphasizes hands-on coding, architecture, and staying current with AI/ML advances, including using AI tools to boost velocity and quality.