Staff Software Engineer — Systems Architect & Tech Leader

PayPal, Inc.; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 161,000 - 239,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Paid time off

Balanced hybrid work model

Job summary

PayPal, Inc. is seeking an engineering leader who will coordinate the work of other engineers, determine technical tasks, and drive architectural decisions for high-scale systems.

You will represent the company to external partners and shape engineering standards. Preferred candidates have 5+ years of relevant experience, a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, and strong expertise in Java, Go, or Python, plus backend RESTful services and cloud platforms.

Qualifications

• 5+ years relevant experience with software engineering.
• Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Proficiency in backend languages (Java, Go, or Python) and in building scalable RESTful services.

Responsibilities

• Acts as project or system leader coordinating engineers on the project or system.
• Determines technical tasks and guides execution to meet customer or operational objectives.
• Drives integration efforts and leads architecture discussions; improves standards and CI/CD practices.

Skills

Java

Go

Python

RESTful services

CI/CD

Observability

Mentoring

Tools

Spring

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS

GCP

Redis

NoSQL

Job description

PayPal, Inc. is seeking an engineering leader who will coordinate the work of other engineers, determine technical tasks, and drive architectural decisions for high-scale systems.

You will represent the company to external partners and shape engineering standards. Preferred candidates have 5+ years of relevant experience, a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, and strong expertise in Java, Go, or Python, plus backend RESTful services and cloud platforms.