What you need to know about the role
As a member of the Checkout Engineering team, you will be responsible for the development and delivery of the applications and services that power PayPal s Checkout user experiences on the web. You will work closely with product, design, and analytics teams to understand what the buyers and merchants using our software desire from us. Were looking for talented, motivated and detail-oriented technologists with a passion for building beautiful products and experiences. We value collaboration, communication, and a passion for achieving engineering and product excellence.
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
Expected Qualifications
- Minimum of 8 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree or equivalent experience.
Your Way to Impact
As a fullstack engineer for PayPal Checkout, you will provide technical leadership for your development team and you will lead the team s participation in all phases of our software development lifecycle. In this role, you will be responsible for shaping the future of PayPals customer facing checkout products. This will be accomplished through technical leadership, implementation of technical designs, direct contributions to architectural decisions, influencing the technical direction of our web applications and mentoring of junior engineers. You will be responsible for developing industry-leading experiences that bring unquestionable value to both merchants and buyers. You will use your years of technical expertise and a solid understanding of the business domain to help us improve the scale, reliability, and performance of our platforms.
Your Day to Day
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to a team of software engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Demonstrate end-to-end ownership of features, projects, modules, and services that you and your team deliver in all phases of the software development lifecycle.
- Lead your team s design and implementation of end-to-end solutions towards client-side applications using JavaScript, Node.js, NextJS, GraphQL, and other relevant technologies.
- Champion the adoption and integration of cutting-edge AI tools and technologies throughout the SDLC, including AI-powered code generation, automated testing, code review assistance, and intelligent debugging to accelerate development velocity and improve code quality.
- Evaluate and implement AI-driven development tools (GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, etc.) to enhance team productivity, automate repetitive tasks, and enable engineers to focus on higher-value problem-solving.
- Lead architectural discussions and contribute to the overall technical direction of the client-side applications, advocating for best practices and innovative solutions, including the strategic integration of AI/ML capabilities into product features where appropriate.
- Own and optimize software performance, identifying and resolving bottlenecks via monitoring, logging, and metrics to enhance the user experience, leveraging AI-powered observability and anomaly detection tools for proactive issue identification.
- Own and be accountable for clean, scalable, high-performing, secure, and reliable software services, in all areas, including coding, documentation, automation, etc.
- Own, Identify, and implement critical non-functional requirements (Availability, Security, Performance, Scalability, and Observability), and improve automated test strategies, build and deploy processes to enable speedy and reliable continuous integration.
- Collaborate with other development teams to ensure seamless integration and deployment of client-side applications, automating and enhancing build, test, and deployment processes, utilizing AI-assisted testing frameworks and intelligent test generation tools.
- Communicate effectively with all technical and non-technical partners and stakeholders (Architecture, Developer Experience, Product, Design, Analytics, Legal, Marketing, etc.) as well as within your team to ensure shared understanding around the new products and features under consideration.
- Conduct formal and informal code reviews, providing constructive feedback to team members to ensure code quality and adherence to clean and scalable coding principles.
- Mentor and guide junior engineers, fostering their professional growth and promoting a collaborative and knowledge-sharing environment.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest industry standards, tools, and technologies related to client-side development, observability, DevOps practices, and emerging AI development tools, and drive their adoption within the team.
- Participate in program planning, influencing the product and technology roadmap and driving outcomes.
What You Bring
- 8+ years of professional experience in software development, with a strong emphasis on development of large-scale and performant Web applications.
- Strong proficiency in JavaScript, Node.js, React / NextJS , GraphQL, or similar frameworks and libraries.
- Solid understanding of the possibilities and limitations of the modern web across all device types and form factors.
- Experience in building responsive, accessible, and mobile-friendly user interfaces.
- Strong attention to detail, as well as a passion for delivering high-quality software solutions and compelling customer experiences.
- Strong problem-solving skills, possessing the ability to work independently or collaboratively to analyze and address complex technical challenges.
- Ability to mentor and up level team members.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and those in non-technical roles, such as marketing, finance, and legal.
- Experience with modern software development practices, version control systems, and agile methodologies, with knowledge of how AI tools integrate into modern development workflows and SDLC processes.
- Awareness of security standards, prevention, and mitigation mechanisms specifically pertaining to web applications.
