Principal Software Engineer, SMB & FS
PayPal
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Jose • California, Illinois • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $188,000 - $323,950 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
CloudDistributed Systems
About the role
- Own the technical vision and execution for platforms powering SMBs
- Lead the multi-year evolution from on-prem to cloud-native architectures
- Architect AI-native commerce capabilities
- Set platform standards and influence executive strategy
- Mentor other engineers
Requirements
- Minimum of 15 years of relevant work experience
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- Track record designing and shipping large-scale, low-latency distributed systems in payments/fintech
- Led cloud migrations of mission-critical systems to cloud
- Hands-on experience building and operating production AI/ML-powered capabilities for commerce
- Deep understanding of the merchant payments stack
- Strong security and compliance background (PCI DSS, SOC2, PSD2/SCA)
- Exceptional written and verbal influence across org boundaries
Benefits
- Flexible work environment
- Employee shares options
- Health and life insurance
- Annual performance bonus
- Other benefits
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
cloud-native architectureAI-native commercelarge-scale distributed systemslow-latency systemscloud migrationAI/ML capabilitiesproduction systemspayments stacksecurity compliancesystem architecture
Soft skills
mentoringinfluencingcommunicationleadershipstrategic thinkingcollaborationproblem-solvingorganizational skillswritten communicationverbal communication