Staff Software Engineer

A customer-focused, hands-on experienced staff software engineer, responsible for designing, implementing, and delivering state-of-the-art payment solutions and merchant experiences. In this role, you will be responsible for the overall development and implementation of front and back-end software applications. Your responsibilities will extend from designing system architecture to high-level programming, and systems integration.

We are customer Support Platform team building state of the art solutions & platforms to address the issues faced by PayPal’s customers.

To ensure success as a staff software engineer, the ideal candidate is an individual with advanced programming skills, experience with application development, and excellent troubleshooting skills. Business acumen, hands-on technology skills, positive work ethic and a collaborative mindset are key to the success of this role.

The prospective candidate will be a senior individual contributor working with various cross-functional groups (business, product, analytics, user experience design and engineering) and will require admirable collaboration skills. The role would involve building features and capabilities on Customer support products & platforms that would redefine how customers issues of PayPal are addressed.

• Demonstrate a customer-centric mindset as part of day-to-day work.
• Ensure that the design and implementation adheres to defined specs and processes.
• Own end-to-end quality of deliverables during all phases of the software development lifecycle.
• Understand & provide technical designs & solution by working within PayPal’s cross-functional technology team.
• Collaborate with core platform and infrastructure teams to satisfy the infrastructure needs for payments solutions.
• Collaborate between business, product and technology in the process of understanding the requirement and coming up with implementation options
• Ability to function effectively in a fast-paced environment and manage continuously changing business needs

What you need to bring to the role:

• Strong programming skills and previous experience as a full stack engineer.
• At least 12+ years of experience as senior software developer with expertise in Java Backend heavy fullstack.
• At least 3 years of experience working with Java , web & cloud design & development
• University Degree for a BS or higher in Computer Science or similar, is preferred
• Experience with REST API’s, Web Services, Unit Testing and build tools.
• Proficient in back-end languages including Java tech stack. Node, Python, C++, is a plus.
• Good understanding and hands on experience with building Cloud based solutions and microservices
• Rich System design and analysis skills.
• Excellent verbal communication skills.
• Good problem solving skills. Attention to detail.
• Working Knowledge on Generative AI,LLMs is an added plus