Software Development Manager

PayPal • San Jose, CA

73d • $152,500 - $262,350 • Hybrid

About The Position

Merchant Engineering's mission is to simplify commerce by providing a one-stop payment platform for all customer segments. We are the customer-facing teams within Product and Platform Engineering building the touch points that interact with our customers across all stacks (PayPal, Braintree and Hyperwallet), across all channels (online and in-store, web and mobile) for our Merchants. Within Commerce Solutions and Services, PayPal's Complete Payments team is looking for a talented Staff Software Development Manager with strong application engineering fundamentals and full stack development experience to design and build solutions supporting our merchant engagement strategy. Every day we come to work looking to develop innovative solutions that deliver high customer value on a scale, especially to Partner & SMB segment. If you are excited about solving hard problems for our customers, working with a passionate and dedicated engineering team, and are focused on constant improvement as an engineer then please apply.

Requirements

• Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics or related area.
• 8+ years of experience in software design, development and architecture.
• Led a team of at least 8 engineers for more than 3 years.
• Applied software quality tools and processes successfully for your teams.
• Delivered projects using agile methodologies.
• Designed and implemented high-traffic front or backend services.
• Worked in projects using SQL and NoSQL solutions.
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Very strong verbal and written communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Must be detail-oriented and able to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Flexibility and willingness to learn new technologies and adapt quickly.
• You have coached engineers, advocated good coding practices, processed adherence and continuous improvement in these areas.
• Been in a project requiring you to effectively collaborate with remote teams across geographies and time zones.

Nice To Haves

• Preferably worked in a payments or finance-related industry before.

Responsibilities

• Own concrete outcomes by building and rolling out technical and functional products and features.
• Ensure all deliverables adhere to the timelines, quality, and performance requirements.
• Build, nurture, and grow the engineering team to deliver relevant features and capabilities, while helping them grow 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.
• Provide technical guidance and assistance to other software engineers.
• Apply best of class coding and design standards.
• Identify areas of technical improvement and make detailed business cases for improvements or new areas of opportunities.

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