Senior Director – Risk 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 are seeking a highly experienced Sr. Director of Engineering with a robust background in Real-Time Risk platforms and services to lead our Risk engineering global team. In partnership with other leaders within this org, the successful candidate will be responsible for driving the development and execution of PayPal’s Risk engineering strategy, leading the team responsible for building various Risk solutions across PayPal business.

Job Description:

This role will involve applying your extensive technical knowledge and expertise to all aspects of the software development lifecycle, as well as collaborating with multiple stakeholders on a daily basis to maintain focus on shared objectives. We foster a culture of experimentation and consistently strive for improvement and learning. You will work in a collaborative, trusting, and thought-provoking environment that encourages diversity of thought and innovative solutions that serve the best interests of our customers.

 

Job Responsibilities:

• Hands-on thought leadership for building on-premise and cloud-based Risk solutions for PayPal business segments.
• Have a solid understanding of Payments or consumer financial products, data systems and data environments, and processes that are necessary for the implementation of Risk and Finance models
• Deep Technical knowledge in architecting, designing, and Integrating new Solutions in a large-scale enterprise of highly distributed applications.
• Deep functional knowledge on Payment Wallets, interactions with Banks and Credit card partners. 
• Work closely with technical leadership across PayPal to integrate solutions efficiently. 
• Work closely with business teams, while having a good understanding of how Fraud and Credit loss manifests in Fintech wallets. 
• Establish the appropriate monitoring and alerting of solution events related to performance, scalability, availability, and reliability.
• Provides technical leadership, guidance, and direction to other team members.
• Build prototypes for demonstration and illustration purposes for peer groups, Business partners, or senior leaders. Influence senior business and technology stakeholders across the organization.
• Solving complex problems with datasets and optimizing existing solutions and frameworks
• Ability to build global teams to achieve organizational