Director, Software Engineering

PayPal • San Jose, CA

70d • $188,000 - $323,950 • Hybrid

About The Position

This job directs business and technical outcomes, defines engineering health objectives, drives product strategy, evaluates business challenges, develops engineering strategy, sets the organizational roadmap, and collaborates with stakeholders. It involves ensuring alignment with organizational goals and dealing with high levels of ambiguity.

Requirements

• Minimum of 15 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 3 years management experience

Nice To Haves

• Deep knowledge of distributed systems design, full-stack application development, RESTful services, Mobile and cloud computing technologies
• Success in partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver global-class products in highly dynamic environments.
• Ability to balance business priorities and technical rigor within fast-paced delivery cycles.
• Cloud migration

Responsibilities

• Directs and controls the delivery of business and technical outcomes that comprise multiple projects and operational activities within a domain through organizational and technical leadership
• Defines engineering health objectives that drive organization health, engineering best practices and operational targets
• Drives product and technical strategy with cross-functional leaders across the enterprise to deliver Domain goals
• Responsible for the delivery of programs, establishing annual organizational goals and ensuring performance and results that impact both their domain and potentially enterprise
• Develops engineering strategy that translates into operational and tactical plans; uses ground-breaking methods to think beyond existing solutions
• Sets the tri-annual roadmap for a domain level organization. Defines the operational strategy for a domain based on a defined budget
• Evaluates key business challenges and can complete complex, ambiguous initiatives having impact across engineering; directs the development of new or innovative solutions. Ability to deal with high levels of technical domain level ambiguity.
• Collaborates with direct team, managers in org, stakeholders, managers in other orgs, external partners and business stakeholders

Benefits

• Flexible work environment
• Employee shares options
• Health and life insurance
• Annual performance bonus
• Equity
• Medical, dental, vision, and other benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Credit Intermediation and Related Activities
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees