Staff Software Engineer

As a Staff Software Engineer at PayPal in Chennai, India, you will lead projects and systems, guiding other engineers. You'll define technical tasks and drive the achievement of customer and operational objectives. Proactively enhance existing structures and processes, demonstrating sound judgment in balancing priorities like time, quality, and complexity to find optimal solutions. Identify patterns and create generalized solutions to reduce repetition. Collaborate with management to establish and improve engineering standards and maintain a customer-centric approach in daily work. Ensure designs and implementations align with specifications and processes, owning the end-to-end quality of deliverables throughout the software development lifecycle. Work closely with core platform and infrastructure teams to meet the infrastructure needs for payment solutions. Facilitate collaboration between business, product, and technology teams to understand requirements and develop implementation options. Thrive in a fast-paced environment with constantly changing business needs.

This role requires a minimum of 8 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent. The ideal candidate has experience building large-scale systems across the full software lifecycle, including front-end system component design and development. Key to success are business acumen, strong technical skills, a positive work ethic, and a collaborative mindset. As an individual contributor, you will work with diverse cross-functional groups including business, product, analytics, user experience design, and engineering, requiring excellent collaboration skills.

Strong programming expertise in Java/J2EE, Spring, and Hibernate is essential. Experience with server-side scripting technologies, REST APIs, Web Services, Unit Testing, and build tools is required. A good understanding and hands-on experience with databases such as MySQL/Oracle are necessary. You should possess a strong understanding of web-based programming languages and rich object-oriented design and analysis skills. Experience in refactoring existing codebases and evaluating existing implementations to determine whether to refactor or rewrite is important. Be a quick learner, comfortable with complex systems, willing to take risks, and thrive in a constantly changing environment. Contribution to building the complete life cycle of transaction processing, preferably in the payments domain, is highly desirable. Exposure to and participation in tech events, hackathons, open-source contributions, authoring blogs, and active participation in online tech forums are considered a plus.