Director, Software Development 2

At PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), we believe that every person has the right to participate fully in the global economy. Our mission is to revolutionize commerce globally to make moving money, selling and shopping, personalized and secure. 

Job Description Summary:

A seasoned senior engineering leader to manage a key area in Payments Platform engineering team that works on platform development and enabling key business initiatives.

Job Description:

Candidate Profile
The ideal candidate for the role will be a combination of:
An “industry leader” who has a keen eye for the developments in the market and competition and help cultivate long-term competitive advantage for the organization, a “seasoned technologist” with strong experience in building large-scale distributed transaction processing systems and solving complex engineering problems, a “customer champion” who has a flair for building products that delight customers and grow business presence, a “people leader” who has keen inclination to attract, groom and develop a talented and engaged team by imbibing PayPal’s cultural value pillars – Innovation, Collaboration, Inclusion and Wellness. a “collaborative partner” willing to build trusts, relationships, and networks across the organization to help meet business goals.

Organization Span

• Lead a 120-member engineering team situated across India and US.
• Member of the payments engineering staff who help define the organizational culture, talent strategy and operational excellence charter of the Payments Engineering Team.
• An active participant within the India site leadership team to help shape the culture of the sites in India.

Key Responsibilities
Vision and Goal Orientation

• Build and own the Post-Processing Payments platform’s long-term vision.
• Define, track, and deliver quarterly and annual goals of the platform and Objectives and Key Responsibilities (OKRs).
• Deliver key platform goals such as scalability, availability, performance, quality, cost transparency and transaction expense savings.
• Formulate and own the data and AI/ML charter for the post-processing functions.
• Define, own, and deliver to the cloud adoption journey for the organization.

Relationship Span

• Partner with key stakeholders across engineering teams within PayPal, with product owners, analytics teams, and business stakeholders.
• Build a strong network with peers and other senior leaders within the company to help further the platform vision.
• Collaborate with core platform and infrastructure leadership team to address the infrastructure needs for payments solutions.
• Periodically travel within and outside India (Bangalore/Chennai & U.S.) to influence stakeholders and build relationships.

Engineering Discipline

• Understand the payments business and how technology decisions impact the business.
• Be a hands-on engineering leader, who can help the team with design and architectural tradeoffs, as well as setting up strong quality and operational excellence standards.
• Lead large development teams building high performant, secure, scalable cost effective back-end applications, good understanding of deployment methods.
• Proven experience in both real time online transaction processing systems as well as non-real time asynchronous processing.
• Proven experience working with large scale database management systems and experience working with various database technologies.
• Ensure the timely delivery of engineering initiatives to create desired value.

Team Management and Culture

• Build, nurture, and grow the engineering team to deliver relevant features and capabilities, while helping them growth their career at PayPal.
• Be constantly involved in the growth of team members and provide regular and constructive feedback and coaching as needed. Handle performance management, hiring and talent development processes.
• Own and track organizational budget across various categories such as employee costs, infrastructure costs, cap-credit, employee engagement, travel etc.
• Enable the team for success by focusing on diversity, inclusion, collaboration, and customer centric mindset.

Leadership Traits

• Embrace PayPal’s leadership principles and be an inspiring leader for the team, and the rest of the organization.
• Lead by example and inspire a team of engineers to perform and deliver to the organizational goals.
• Exhibit strong business and technical vision, excellent presentation skills and the ability to communicate this vision to multiple stakeholders.
• Be highly customer-focused and provide the best-in-class products and solutions serving millions of customers across the world.
• Be a strong voice for the team and exhibit engineering leadership across the organization by ideating and implementing innovative product ideas and introducing new technological advancements on the platform.
• Sense evolving business trends and translate them into needs into technology solves.
• Constantly look out for discovering new value by means of innovations, new processes, methodology, product capabilities, patents and more.
• Be willing to represent PayPal and the team within internal and external forums.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in software development, building large-scale distributed systems, managing high-volume websites and web services, and developing technical organizations.
• Experience in Payments systems, and cloud-based architectures is a plus.

Additional Job Description:

Subsidiary:

PayPal

Travel Percent:

10

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 visit

Who We Are:

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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. For more information, visit  ,   and  .

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 at .

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