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Job Summary
As a Staff Software Engineer on the PayPal Promotions Platform, you'll shape the self-service tools that let PayPal and Venmo marketers build and manage campaigns across a wide range of offer types. You'll lead the design and development of React-based web applications that are scalable, performant, and secure, and you'll raise the bar for engineering practice across the teams you work with.
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 PayPal, 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
Additional Responsibilities
Lead the design, development, and evolution of self-service campaign tools for PayPal and Venmo marketers.
Set technical direction, lead large-scale projects, coordinate engineering efforts, and align teams toward shared objectives.
Drive architectural decisions and establish engineering standards, including coding conventions, design patterns, review practices, and long-term technical strategy.
Partner with backend, platform, infrastructure, and product teams to deliver scalable, end-to-end solutions.
Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and day-to-day problem solving while elevating overall team performance.
Resolve complex technical challenges and develop reusable solutions while balancing performance, scalability, maintainability, reliability, and risk.
Represent PayPal with external partners, customers, industry organizations, and developer communities.
Preferred Qualifications
8+ years of relevant software engineering experience and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Deep expertise in JavaScript, TypeScript, and React, with strong knowledge of front-end architecture, component frameworks, build systems, and packaging.
Solid understanding of backend systems and API integration patterns, with the ability to collaborate effectively with backend teams.
Proven ability to influence architecture decisions, build consensus, and drive alignment across diverse teams.
Demonstrated success mentoring engineers and improving team performance through guidance, feedback, and technical leadership.
Sound judgment in ambiguous or high-stakes technical situations, with the ability to balance competing priorities and tradeoffs.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to translate technical goals into actionable business and engineering outcomes.
Subsidiary
PayPal
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.
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For the majority of employees, PayPal'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 PayPal office or your home workspace, ensuring that you equally have the benefits and conveniences of both locations.
Our Benefits
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Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
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, 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, 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 paypalglobaltalentacquisition@paypal.com.
Belonging at PayPal
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