Director, Software Engineering

The Company

PayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years. Creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure, PayPal empowers consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy.

We operate a global, two-sided network at scale that connects hundreds of millions of merchants and consumers. We help merchants and consumers connect, transact, and complete payments, whether they are online or in person. PayPal is more than a connection to third-party payment networks. We provide proprietary payment solutions accepted by merchants that enable the completion of payments on our platform on behalf of our customers.

We offer our customers the flexibility to use their accounts to purchase and receive payments for goods and services, as well as the ability to transfer and withdraw funds. We enable consumers to exchange funds more safely with merchants using a variety of funding sources, which may include a bank account, a PayPal or Venmo account balance, PayPal and Venmo branded credit products, a credit card, a debit card, certain cryptocurrencies, or other stored value products such as gift cards, and eligible credit card rewards. Our PayPal, Venmo, and Xoom products also make it safer and simpler for friends and family to transfer funds to each other. We offer merchants an end-to-end payments solution that provides authorization and settlement capabilities, as well as instant access to funds and payouts. We also help merchants connect with their customers, process exchanges and returns, and manage risk. We enable consumers to engage in cross-border shopping and merchants to extend their global reach while reducing the complexity and friction involved in enabling cross-border trade.

Our beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day. We live each day guided by our core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness. Together, our values ensure that we work together as one global team with our customers at the center of everything we do – and they push us to ensure we take care of ourselves, each other, and our communities.

Job Description Summary:
What you need to know about the role:

We are seeking a Director of Engineering who will be accountable for all aspects of the platform developed in partnership with product counterparts, architects, and other functions across the organization. The role also entails leading and growing a talented engineering team, nurturing best engineering practices, collaborating closely across various cross-functional teams.

Meet our team:

The Foundational Commons Domain?provides scalable, reliable, secure foundational capabilities that enable?PayPal product teams to build engaging customer experiences. The platforms the domain is comprised of are critical to our technological ecosystem and the backbone of many of our enterprise systems

In PayPal, we develop massively scalable, distributed software systems that require high availability to our business. To achieve this, we are always looking at advances in technology and science and tying those back to business needs. We are always looking for strong technologists who are passionate to solve large scale highly complex computer engineering problems, in a repeatable and maintainable way.
Job Description:
Your way to impact:

Customer Centricity:
Demonstrate a customer-centric mindset as part of day-to-day work and imbibe the culture among team members.
Take a deep interest in the customer journey of our consumers and merchants to understand the challenges they face and optimize opportunities for the product.
Function effectively in a dynamically changing competitive and regulatory environment and manage continuously changing business needs.

Employee Engagement, Growth, and Talent Attraction:
Recruit, mentor, and coach engineering teams towards strengthening a culture of engineering excellence, accountability, and quality.
Help team members create their individual career development plans and provide them with resources and support necessary to achieve their career aspirations.
Set goals for the team members, and help them track, measure, and in most cases exceed the set goals.
Lead with empathy, transparency, clarity, and pragmatism to build trust and camaraderie with and within the team.
Participate actively in various India center level activities, as well as activities driven at a global level.
Encourage and entertain a culture that nurtures and promotes inclusion and diversity and eng

Your day to day:

Designing, implementing, and delivering state-of -the-art solutions for Foundational Commons that are in accordance with customer expectations, business aspirations, and platform principles.
Collaborate between various internal teams in our global product and engineering organizations, UX designers, content designers, platform and infrastructure teams, database teams, release engineering, site reliability engineering, analytics, etc., and external stakeholders such as technology vendor partners, technology service providers, and staffing vendor partners.
Implement and enforce best practices of software engineering that bring agility, quality, performance, scale, security, and efficiency for all products being delivered. Constantly adapt and experiment with new best practices followed within the industry.
Understand and enrich technical architecture, design, and implementation patterns by working within PayPal's cross-functional technology teams.
Focus on innovation as a key cultural element and optimize for efficiencies by bringing unique solutions to the table and questioning the status quo and refactoring the existing codebase.
Manage teams that are accountable for all facets of software development like architecture, design, implementation, quality engineering, release and monitoring.
Embrace a data and metrics-driven culture to help make informed decisions.

What do you need to bring:
Bachelor's in Computer Science or Master's in Computer Science degree or related field from an accredited college or university with around 15 years in the software technology field and at least 5 years leading teams of over 20 engineers Strong object-oriented programming skills and expertise.
Deep understanding of various web-scale design paradigms.
Good understanding of mobile technologies and frameworks.
Experience with test frameworks and Functional Test frameworks.?
Exposure to one or more server-side scripting technologies is a plus.
Highly Competent in Enterprise Architecture/ Software design & Implementation
Good knowledge of REST API's, Web Services.
Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, AWS / GCP is desired.
Very strong foundational knowledge in Data Structures, Algorithms, SQL/NoSQL, Operating Systems, and Software Engineering

Additional Job Description:

Subsidiary:
PayPal
Travel Percent:
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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:
At PayPal, we're committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. And we can't do this without our most important asset—you. That's why we offer benefits to help you thrive in every stage of life. We champion your financial, physical, and mental health by offering valuable benefits and resources to help you care for the whole you.
We have great benefits including a flexible work environment, employee shares options, health and life insurance and more. To learn more about our benefits please visithttps://www.paypalbenefits.com.

Who We Are:
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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 ******.

Belonging at PayPal:
Our employees are central to advancing our mission, and we strive to create an environment where everyone can do their best work with a sense of purpose and belonging. Belonging at PayPal means creating a workplace with a sense of acceptance and security where all employees feel included and valued. We are proud to have a diverse workforce reflective of the merchants, consumers, and communities that we serve, and we continue to take tangible actions to cultivate inclusivity and belonging at PayPal.

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