PayPal is looking to solve complex technical situations, create roadmaps, and manage multiple projects to ensure project delivery and continuous improvement across up to three domains, impacting business success and future concepts, products, or technologies.
Requirements
- 8+ years hands-on experience in Java backend development
- Proven expertise in Big Data ecosystems (Hadoop/Spark/Flink)
- Working knowledge of AI/ML implementations
- Strong grasp of software design patterns and algorithms
- Cloud-native development experience (AWS/Azure/GCP)
- Ability to mentor junior engineers and scale high-performing teams
- Proven ability to translate technical concepts for business stakeholders
Responsibilities
- Manages multiple projects through direct reports and may directly manage individual software development projects. Ensures project delivery through supervision of costs, methods, and staffing
- Sets operational targets that impact their group and drives operational rigor around engineering KPIs such as unit test coverage, uptime/resiliency targets, execution velocity
- Responsible for the delivery of projects and continuous improvement that impact up to three domains
- Leads the effort in resolving highly complex or unique technical situations that impact business success or addresses future concepts, products, or technologies
- Creates the roadmap for multiple scrum teams. Responsible for turning a high-level operational strategy into a well-defined resourcing plan
- Provide hands-on technical guidance to global dev teams
- Architect solutions that meet regional compliance requirements
Other
- Minimum of 12 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
- Previous management experience
- 3+ years managing teams of <20 members, including performance reviews and career development
- Experience in conflict resolution and fostering team cohesion in hybrid/remote settings
- Strong emotional intelligence to navigate diverse team dynamics
