Software Engineer at PayPal in San Jose, CA

Summary: PayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years, empowering consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets. The Software Engineer role involves implementing tasks within the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), collaborating with peers and project leads, and contributing to code and design reviews. Responsibilities: - Implements tasks within the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), receiving structure and oversight from more experienced staff - Follows well-established internal conventions and standard procedures - Understands internal standards & processes and applies them to make technical decisions - Collaborates with peers, manager, and project lead to gain understanding of tasks and review solutions - May contribute to code & design reviews - Design, build, test, release, monitor and provide live support for complex multi-tiered software technical features based on user requirements - Work with scrum teams and product managers using agile methodologies to deliver high quality software solutions in a timely manner - Collaborate effectively with peer application teams and architecture team to solve complex technical problems spanning their respective areas - Write detailed technical documentation to provide detailed technical requirements to the software developers and quality analysts - Provide technical expertise to the cross-functional team in resolving technical software issues - Work constantly on improvising the existing functionalities of the software systems and solutions Required Qualifications: - 1+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience - Implements tasks within the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), receiving structure and oversight from more experienced staff - Follows well-established internal conventions and standard procedures - Understands internal standards & processes and applies them to make technical decisions - Collaborates with peers, manager, and project lead to gain understanding of tasks and review solutions - May contribute to code & design reviews Preferred Qualifications: - Design, build, test, release, monitor and provide live support for complex multi-tiered software technical features based on user requirements - Work with scrum teams and product managers using agile methodologies to deliver high quality software solutions in a timely manner - Collaborate effectively with peer application teams and architecture team to solve complex technical problems spanning their respective areas - Write detailed technical documentation to provide detailed technical requirements to the software developers and quality analysts - Provide technical expertise to the cross-functional team in resolving technical software issues - Work constantly on improvising the existing functionalities of the software systems and solutions - Backend Engineering JAVA, Springboot, Spring Webflux - Frontend development: NodeJs, JavaScript and TypeScript, React.js, Cypress, Playwright - Software Architecture - Experience with cloud-native architectures, microservices, distributed systems, and CI/CD pipelines, design patterns, and best practices - Python programming - Machine Learning / Natural Language Processing - Experience with open-source frameworks like LangChain, LangGraph, LangFlow - Familiarity with prompt engineering, chaining, memory, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), MCP and observability in LLM-based applications Required Skills: Backend Engineering, Software Architecture, Python programming Important Skills: Frontend development, Machine Learning, Open-source frameworks Nice-to-Have Skills: Agile methodologies Benefits: Flexible work environment, Employee shares options, Health and life insurance