Senior Python Backend Engineer – Payments Platform

BAM Ventures; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 177,000 - 262,000; Full time

Job summary

PayPal is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in San Jose, CA. You will lead a scrum team, build robust backend services, and collaborate with product managers on requirements. The role emphasizes scalable payment platforms, reliability, and teamwork in a hybrid work model.

You will work on high-volume services used by millions, focusing on performance, reliability, and secure, scalable architectures while mentoring junior engineers and contributing to code quality and design decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s and/or Masters in computer science or related field.
• 5+ years’ experience with Python or equivalent high-level language.
• Advanced skills with RDBMS and NoSQL data stores, caching solutions and messaging systems.

Responsibilities

• Act as project or system leader coordinating engineers on the project.
• Define technical tasks and ensure delivery of customer/operational objectives.
• Collaborate with product managers to refine requirements and standards.
• Own performance and availability of services and participate in on-call rotations.

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

Cloud computing

Code review

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Redis

Kafka

RabbitMQ

SQS

Terraform

Job description

PayPal is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in San Jose, CA. You will lead a scrum team, build robust backend services, and collaborate with product managers on requirements. The role emphasizes scalable payment platforms, reliability, and teamwork in a hybrid work model.

You will work on high-volume services used by millions, focusing on performance, reliability, and secure, scalable architectures while mentoring junior engineers and contributing to code quality and design decisions.