Job Description
At PayPal (NASDAQ : PYPL), we believe that every person has the right to participate fully in the global economy. Our mission is to revolutionize commerce globally to make moving money, selling and shopping, personalized and secure.
Job Description Summary :
What you need to know about the role :
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will act as a subject matter expert. We are looking for technologists with the highest levels of technical talent, programming, and communication skills with a keen desire to deeply understand our product and how to make our systems stronger and more resilient.
Job Description : Your way to impact :
Your way to impact :
Engineering is a craft, and at PayPal we want the internals of our software to be as elegant as the end user experience we are designing.
We spend our days scaling our infrastructure and building new features to meet and exceed our user's needs and wants. We teach and learn from one another and push each other to be at our creative and analytical best.
Your day to day :
• Lead 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.
• Evangelist for technical standards, engineering best practices, and quality across larger PayPal team Inc. Determines the technical tasks that other engineers will follow.
• Support end-to-end ownership of design, implementation and operational excellence of software components while proactively improving existing structures and processes.
• Contribute to the technical engineering roadmap by completing quality and thorough assessments of implementation alternatives and their associated trade-offs and providing recommendations.
• Be consistently solutions-focused while contributing to the vision of domain PayPal technical engineering roadmap.
• Exercises judgement in reconciling diverse and competing priorities to identify optimal solutions to problems.
• Leverage strategic thinking and experience to look ahead and anticipate consequences and risks linked to implementation choices;
able to identify patterns to reduce repetition into meaningful general solutions.
• A key voice on team-level processes (ex code & design reviews) and oversees projects, ensuring an accurate, complete, timely and operable solution is delivered.
• Serves as an expert to resolve technical inquiries of others.
• Be able to provide technical leadership for a team with limited guidance from management or senior teammates.
• Strong skills interacting and tailoring communication with various technical and non-technical stakeholders, such as product, support, finance operations, compliance and legal.
What you need to bring :
• Experience developing and maintaining consumer-facing mobile applications at scale. Strong Kotlin skills & knowledge of multi-threaded, asynchronous code.
• Deep understanding and knowledge around consuming GraphQL and REST APIs from Mobile applications.
• Passionate about mentoring and developing software engineers.
• Strong understanding of testing best practices and familiarity with at least one testing framework for Mobile Development.
Skilled at writing Unit and Automation tests.
Additional Job Description :
Subsidiary : PayPal
PayPal
Travel Percent : Our Benefits :
Our Benefits :
At PayPal, we're committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. And we can't do this without our most important asset-you.
That's why we offer benefits to help you thrive in every stage of life. We champion your financial, physical, and mental health by offering valuable benefits and resources to help you care for the whole you.
We have great benefits including a flexible work environment, employee shares options, health and life insurance and more.
To learn more about our benefits please visit https : / / www.paypalbenefits.com
Who We Are :
Click Here to learn more about our culture and community.
PayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years. Creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure, PayPal empowers consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy.
For more information, visit https : / / www.paypal.com , https : / / about.pypl.com and https : / / investor.pypl.com.
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, ****** 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 redacted .
Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please Join Our Talent Community.
Last updated : 2026-0+-22
Job Description Summary :
What you need to know about the role :
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will act as a subject matter expert. We are looking for technologists with the highest levels of technical talent, programming, and communication skills with a keen desire to deeply understand our product and how to make our systems stronger and more resilient.
Job Description : Your way to impact :
Your way to impact :
Engineering is a craft, and at PayPal we want the internals of our software to be as elegant as the end user experience we are designing.
We spend our days scaling our infrastructure and building new features to meet and exceed our user's needs and wants. We teach and learn from one another and push each other to be at our creative and analytical best.
Your day to day :
• Lead 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.
• Evangelist for technical standards, engineering best practices, and quality across larger PayPal team Inc. Determines the technical tasks that other engineers will follow.
• Support end-to-end ownership of design, implementation and operational excellence of software components while proactively improving existing structures and processes.
• Contribute to the technical engineering roadmap by completing quality and thorough assessments of implementation alternatives and their associated trade-offs and providing recommendations.
• Be consistently solutions-focused while contributing to the vision of domain PayPal technical engineering roadmap.
• Exercises judgement in reconciling diverse and competing priorities to identify optimal solutions to problems.
• Leverage strategic thinking and experience to look ahead and anticipate consequences and risks linked to implementation choices;
able to identify patterns to reduce repetition into meaningful general solutions.
• A key voice on team-level processes (ex code & design reviews) and oversees projects, ensuring an accurate, complete, timely and operable solution is delivered.
• Serves as an expert to resolve technical inquiries of others.
• Be able to provide technical leadership for a team with limited guidance from management or senior teammates.
• Strong skills interacting and tailoring communication with various technical and non-technical stakeholders, such as product, support, finance operations, compliance and legal.
What you need to bring :
• Experience developing and maintaining consumer-facing mobile applications at scale. Strong Kotlin skills & knowledge of multi-threaded, asynchronous code.
• Deep understanding and knowledge around consuming GraphQL and REST APIs from Mobile applications.
• Passionate about mentoring and developing software engineers.
• Strong understanding of testing best practices and familiarity with at least one testing framework for Mobile Development.
Skilled at writing Unit and Automation tests.
Additional Job Description :
Subsidiary : PayPal
PayPal
Travel Percent : Our Benefits :
Our Benefits :
At PayPal, we're committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. And we can't do this without our most important asset-you.
That's why we offer benefits to help you thrive in every stage of life. We champion your financial, physical, and mental health by offering valuable benefits and resources to help you care for the whole you.
We have great benefits including a flexible work environment, employee shares options, health and life insurance and more.
To learn more about our benefits please visit https : / / www.paypalbenefits.com
Who We Are :
Click Here to learn more about our culture and community.
PayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years. Creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure, PayPal empowers consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy.
For more information, visit https : / / www.paypal.com , https : / / about.pypl.com and https : / / investor.pypl.com.
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, ****** 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 redacted .
Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please Join Our Talent Community.
Last updated : 2026-0+-22
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