Manager, 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 Summary:

We're hiring an Engineering Manager to lead a Java backend team that focuses on building fast, easy to use the payments solutions for our merchants.

Job Description:
Our product empowers businesses to tackle complex challenges with surprising ease, think enterprise-grade power wrapped in delightfully intuitive tech. As a part of this team you will be working closely with card payments, aquirerer integrations and solve technical problems to reduce risk and increase acceptance rates.

Job Description:

Essential Responsibilities:

• Directly manages software development projects (including program management) and execution through individual contributors. May also lead project teams across platforms or groups
• Implements processes to drive strong operational hygiene for all components and systems within their group
• Responsible for the delivery of projects, including quality and timeliness, that impact their domain and potentially one other
• Demonstrates strong tactical ability by managing the roadmap for a scrum team responsible for technical issues of diverse scope where analysis requires an understanding of current business or tends
• Competent at communicating technical issues with non-technical audiences
• Analyzes multiple sources of information and identifies & resolves complex technical, operational, and organizational problems relating to software development.
• Collaborates with direct team, managers in org, stakeholders such as Product Owners & PMO

Expected Qualifications:

• Minimum of 8 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualification:

​What you need to bring

• Proven experience in team leadership and mentoring.
• Coding experience in Java, Kotlin, or similar technologies.
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Proven experience leading cross-functional engineering teams in a fast-paced fintech or payments environment.
• Ability to mentor and grow engineers through coaching, feedback, and career development planning.
• Skilled in agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and driving continuous delivery and improvement.
• Experience in setting technical direction and aligning engineering goals with business objectives.
• Track record of building scalable, resilient, and high-availability systems.
• Experience with observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog) an