The Company

Pay Pal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years. Creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure, Pay Pal empowers consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy.

We operate a global, two-sided network at scale that connects hundreds of millions of merchants and consumers. We help merchants and consumers connect, transact, and complete payments, whether they are online or in person. Pay Pal is more than a connection to third-party payment networks. We provide proprietary payment solutions accepted by merchants that enable the completion of payments on our platform on behalf of our customers.

We offer our customers the flexibility to use their accounts to purchase and receive payments for goods and services, as well as the ability to transfer and withdraw funds. We enable consumers to exchange funds more safely with merchants using a variety of funding sources, which may include a bank account, a Pay Pal or Venmo account balance, Pay Pal and Venmo branded credit products, a credit card, a debit card, certain cryptocurrencies, or other stored value products such as gift cards, and eligible credit card rewards. Our Pay Pal, Venmo, and Xoom products also make it safer and simpler for friends and family to transfer funds to each other. We offer merchants an end-to-end payments solution that provides authorization and settlement capabilities, as well as instant access to funds and payouts. We also help merchants connect with their customers, process exchanges and returns, and manage risk. We enable consumers to engage in cross-border shopping and merchants to extend their global reach while reducing the complexity and friction involved in enabling cross-border trade.

Our beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day. We live each day guided by our core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness. Together, our values ensure that we work together as one global team with our customers at the center of everything we do – and they push us to ensure we take care of ourselves, each other, and our communities.

Job Summary:

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.

Job Description: Essential 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 Pay Pal, Inc to the outside world via interactions with partners, customers, or industry organizations

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.

Additional Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications: About the team

Lead, drive, and deliver world-class core capabilities in Compliance, Privacy, Identity, Risk, Foundational Commons, and Global Servicing (formerly Customer Service) that provide Pay Pal a global competitive advantage by engaging, protecting, and servicing our Pay Pal ecosystem to drive trust, engagement, faster time-to-market, and the best possible customer experience.

Provide an industry-leading ecosystem of unified, composable Core Platforms and Experiences that are frictionless, secure, easy to integrate, data & AIML driven, and provide all of the “-ilities” within a holistic architecture that empowers greater agility, faster time-to-market, end-to-end customer journeys, and business outcomes that grow the top and bottom line for Pay Pal.

Additional Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience & Technical Expertise
• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years building and scaling backend distributed systems in production
• Expert-level proficiency in Java , Spring and Microservices with deep understanding of JVM internals, concurrency models, memory management, and performance optimization
• Proven experience architecting and deploying microservices architectures in cloud-native environments, particularly Google Cloud Platform (GCP) (AWS experience also valued)
• Strong expertise with Designing RESTful APIs, Caching , Data modeling, Partitioning strategies, and query optimization
• Hands-on experience with message streaming platforms such as Apache Kafka and Google Pub/Sub for event-driven architectures
• Define and maintain team coding guidelines for Java, microservices design, API contracts, and database interactions by working thru matrix org.
• Demonstrated success designing and operating systems handling high-throughput, low-latency workloads (100k+ transactions per second)
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude) for code generation, testing, and documentation.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Lead architectural decisions and technical strategy across multiple engineering teams
• Serve as the primary technical authority for system design, establishing patterns and best practices
• Drive cross-functional collaboration with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Risk, Payments and Compliance teams
• Champion API strategy development and execution, ensuring alignment with product roadmaps and business objectives
• Mentor engineers through comprehensive code reviews, maintaining high-quality standards and promoting engineering excellence

Operational Excellence

• Participate in on-call rotations, leading incident response and driving resolution for critical production issues
• Design for reliability, scalability, and performance across distributed systems
• Oversee the development and optimization of API endpoints, ensuring they meet stringent SLA requirements
• Implement observability and monitoring solutions to maintain system health and performance

The base pay for this role will depend on where you work and the relevant experience and expertise you bring. The expected range of pay for this role by location is:

Primary Location | Pay Range:

San Jose, California | ($176,500.00 - $262,350.00 Annually)

Subsidiary:

Pay Pal

Travel Percent:

0

The base pay for this role will depend on where you work and the relevant experience and expertise you bring. The expected range of pay for this role by location is:

Primary Location | Pay Range:

San Jose, California | ($176,500.00 - $262,350.00 Annually)

Additional Location(s) | Pay Range:

No other locations are assigned to this requisition currently.

Additional compensation for this role may include an annual performance bonus, equity, or other incentive compensation, as applicable.

PayPal does not charge candidates any fees for courses, applications, resume reviews, interviews, background checks, or onboarding. When making an application directly, we will never ask you to share passwords, one-time passcodes (OTP), or verification codes. Any such request is a red flag and likely part of a scam. All communication regarding your application will come from official PayPal email domains. If you suspect fraudulent activity, please report it immediately. To learn more about how to identify and avoid recruitment fraud please visit https://careers.pypl.com/contact-us.

For the majority of employees, Pay Pal's balanced hybrid work model offers 3 days in the office for effective in-person collaboration and 2 days at your choice of either the Pay Pal office or your home workspace, ensuring that you equally have the benefits and conveniences of both locations.

Our Benefits:

At Pay Pal, 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 comprehensive, choice-based programs, to support all aspects of personal wellbeing—physical, emotional, and financial—delivering meaningful value where it matters most. We strive to create a flexible, balanced work culture with a holistic approach to benefits, including generous paid time off, healthcare coverage for you and your family, and resources to create financial security and support your mental health.

Who We Are:

Click Here to learn more about our culture and community.

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Pay Pal 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, Pay Pal 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 paypalglobaltalentacquisition@paypal.com.

Belonging at Pay Pal:

Our employees are central to advancing our mission, and we strive to create an environment where everyone can do their best work with a sense of purpose and belonging. Belonging at Pay Pal means creating a workplace with a sense of acceptance and security where all employees feel included and valued. We are proud to have a diverse workforce reflective of the merchants, consumers, and communities that we serve, and we continue to take tangible actions to cultivate inclusivity and belonging at Pay Pal.

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