Staff Software Engineer

Job Description Lead software engineering efforts and team-level processes by defining outcomes for others, refining ongoing processes, and providing technical advice to senior leaders on systems, solutions, challenges, and strategy. Design and develop fault-tolerant and scalable distributed services and systems, and new cloud-based software solutions using experience with distributed services and backend systems, as well as expertise with building services on public cloud - AWS, GCP, Azure. Determine the technical tasks that other engineers will follow throughout design, development, testing and implementation phases. Contribute to the technical engineering roadmap by completing quality and thorough assessments of implementation alternatives and their associated tradeoffs and providing recommendations. Analyze and reconcile diverse and competing priorities to identify optimal solutions to problems, and anticipate consequences and risks linked to implementation choices. Identify patterns to reduce repetition into meaningful general solutions using skills with RDBMS and NoSQL data stores, caching solutions, and messaging/queuing protocols/systems. Perform software code and design reviews ensuring an accurate, complete, timely, and operable solution is delivered. Write unit, integration and functional tests and resolve the technical inquiries. Partial telecommuting permitted from within a commutable distance. Minimum Requirements: Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Engineering, or a closely related field plus eight years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation. Special Skill Requirements Experience in software engineering, including Java, OOP, and design patterns for scalable application development (8 years). Experience using Git and modern development workflows including pull requests, code reviews, and CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and Maven (7 years). Experience applying the full SDLC including requirements gathering, design documentation, testing, deployment, and post-release support (7 years). Experience building and maintaining microservices with Spring Boot, including REST API development, input validation, service configuration, and integrations with downstream systems (6 years). Experience in Agile environments and collaborating with cross-functional teams (6 years). Experience with API Gateways such as Apigee for API Management and fault tolerance (6 years). Experience with APM/observability tools such as SignalFx, Splunk, Grafana, or mPulse for real-time monitoring, alerting, and root cause analysis (6 years). Experience with AWS (EC2, S3, CloudWatch, and SQS) to deploy, scale, and monitor microservices in production (3 years). Experience implementing event-driven systems using Apache Kafka including real-time streaming and decoupling services via pub/sub messaging (3 years). Experience in the payments domain including exposure to transaction workflows, idempotency handling, and secure service design in regulated environments (1 year). Pay and Location San Jose, California | $226,138.00-300,500.00 per annum. 40 hours per week; M-F, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Additional compensation for this role may include an annual performance bonus, equity, or other incentive compensation, as applicable. Legal Authorization Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship. Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion PayPal provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. In addition, PayPal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at View email address on click.appcast.io. #J-18808-Ljbffr