About the position
This job acts as a project leader, coordinating the activities of other engineers, determining technical tasks, and improving existing structures and processes. It involves making technical decisions, collaborating with management to set standards, and representing the company to external partners. We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to serve as the Senior Tech Lead across multiple scrum teams within our Merchant Integrations group. You’ll be at the technical helm of some of our most critical initiatives building secure, scalable systems that power integrations used by merchants around the globe. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role for someone ready to shape architecture, influence best practices, and lead others across a modern tech stack.
Responsibilities
- Acts as a project or system leader, coordinating the activities of other engineers on the project or within the system.
- Determines the technical tasks that other engineers will follow.
- Actions result in the achievement of customer, operational, program or service objectives.
- Proactively improves existing structures & processes.
- Exercises judgement in reconciling diverse and competing priorities (time, quality, complexity risk) to identify optimal solutions to problems.
- Notices patterns and condenses repetition into densely meaningful generalized solutions.
- Collaborates with management to set/improve standards for engineering rigor.
- Trusted to represent PayPal, Inc to the outside world via interactions with partners, customers, or industry organizations.
Requirements
- Minimum of 8 years of relevant work experience.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
Benefits
- Flexible work environment.
- Employee shares options.
- Health and life insurance.
- Annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable).
- Equity.
