Staff Software Engineer - Backend Python

Senior Software EngineerThis job delivers complete solutions spanning all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). It involves advising management on project-level issues, guiding junior engineers, operating with little supervision, and applying knowledge of technical best practices.Essential Responsibilities:Acts as a project or system leader, coordinating the activities of other engineers on the project or within the systemDetermines the technical tasks that other engineers will followActions result in the achievement of customer, operational, program or service objectivesProactively improves existing structures & processesExercises judgement in reconciling diverse and competing priorities (time, quality, complexity risk) to identify optimal solutions to problemsNotices patterns and condenses repetition into densely meaningful generalized solutionsCollaborates with management to set/improve standards for engineering rigorTrusted to represent PayPal, Inc to the outside world via interactions with partners, customers, or industry organizationsMinimum Qualifications:5+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.Additional Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications :What you need to know about the role-As a Senior Software Engineer, you would be a core member of the scrum team and work closely with staff engineers to build high quality product. We are looking for technologists with the highest levels of technical talent, programming, and communication skills with a keen desire to deeply understand our product and how to make our systems more robust and more resilient.Your way to impactYou will have the opportunity to work on one of the biggest payments platforms that caters to 65 million active users and processes transactions worth billions of dollars. Given all the fun challenges, we are a fast-paced organization going through rapid growth that is solving technical challenges at exponential scale. As an organization, we have a strong culture of committing to goals and delivering on timelines.Your day to dayKey voice in team level processes (e.g., code & design review)Oversees projects, ensuring an accurate, complete, and operable solution is delivered, working with management as needed to fill gapsCollaborates with product managers to understand & refine requirementsServes as an expert to resolve technical inquiries of other employeesFollows well established internal conventions and standard proceduresShares software development processes and standards with junior peersLeverages awareness of industry peer solutions to inform and validate technical decisionsAnticipates consequences of implementation choices on future development and optimizes accordinglyContributes to code & designOwn the performance and availability of the services as well as participate in on call rotations and provide support during incidences.Has an appetite to learn and contribute to complex projects alongside your colleagues.What do you need to bring-Bachelor's and/or Masters in computer science, or a related field of study, or equivalent experience5 plus years' experience with Python or equivalent high-level programming languageAdvanced skills with RDBMS and NoSQL data stores, caching solutions (e.g. Redis, ElastiCache, Hazelcast) and messaging/queuing protocols/systems such as SQS/Kafka/RabbitMQ/PulsarCompetency in comparing the qualities of multiple implementation choices, including nonfunctional characteristics.Mentor junior engineersUnderstands runtime environment concepts (e.g Linux OS, Java Virtual Machine, python runtime) and behavior and can incorporate to predict performance characteristics of implementation choices.Experience with distributed services and backend systemsExperience with building services on public cloud – preferably AWS. Alternatives, GCP, AzureExperience in managing infrastructure as code using TerraformExperience working with fault-tolerant and scalable distributed services and systems.