Sr 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:

This job manages multiple projects, sets operational targets, ensures project delivery, resolves complex technical situations, creates roadmaps, applies analytical thought, and collaborates with stakeholders.

Job Description:

Essential 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
• Demonstrates perseverance in pursuing difficult, complex, or ambiguous goals or problems, applying advanced analytical thought and judgment.
• Collaborates with direct team, managers in org, stakeholders, managers in other orgs and business stakeholders

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum of 12 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Previous management experience

• Technical Mastery 

  • 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) 

  People Leadership 

  • 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 

  • Ability to mentor junior engineers and scale high-performing teams 

  • Strong emotional intelligence to navigate diverse team dynamics 

  Stakeholder & Executive Engagement 

  • Proven ability to translate technical concepts for business stakeholders 

  • Experience presenting strategic roadmaps to senior leadership (VP+) 

  • Skilled in managing upward communication with metrics-driven updates 

  • Track record of aligning engineering outputs with business OKRs 

  Innovation Leadership 

  • Led 2+ cross-functional innovation initiatives from ideation to production 

  • Experience implementing hackathons/innovation sprints within teams 

  • Strong technical foresight to identify emerging tech opportunities 

  • Budget management for R&D projects (<$500K scope) 

  Global Collaboration 

  • Demonstrated success leading distributed teams across ≥3 timezones 

  • Cultural sensitivity and multilingual capabilities preferred 

  • Exceptional remote collaboration skills (Async/Sync communication) 

  • Experience implementing collaboration frameworks for tech teams 

  Working Model 

  • Minimum 4-hour overlap with GMT+8 and GMT-5 timezones daily 

  • Willingness for occasional late/early meetings (max 2x/week) 

  • Hybrid work arrangement (3 days on-site/week minimum) 

  Key Responsibilities: 

  • Provide hands-on technical guidance to global dev teams 

  • Architect solutions that meet regional compliance requirements 

  • Drive adoption of unified development standards 

  • Resolve cross-regional technical dependencies 

  • Foster knowledge sharing through tech guilds 

  • Conduct quarterly innovation reviews with product leadership 

  • Serve as liaison between engineering and C-level executives 

  • Implement team productivity metrics and improvement programs 

Subsidiary:

PayPal

Travel Percent:

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PayPal is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

Actual Compensation is based on various factors including but not limited to work location, and relevant skills and experience.

The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit https://www.paypalbenefits.com.

The US national annual pay range for this role is $169,500 to $291,500

PayPal does not charge candidates any fees for courses, applications, resume reviews, interviews, background checks, or onboarding. Any such request is a red flag and likely part of a scam. To learn more about how to identify and avoid recruitment fraud please visit https://careers.pypl.com/contact-us.

For the majority of employees, PayPal's balanced hybrid work model offers 3 days in the office for effective in-person collaboration and 2 days at your choice of either the PayPal office or your home workspace, ensuring that you equally have the benefits and conveniences of both locations.

Our Benefits:

At PayPal, we’re committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. And we can’t do this without our most important asset—you. That’s why we offer benefits to help you thrive in every stage of life. We champion your financial, physical, and mental health by offering valuable benefits and resources to help you care for the whole you.

We have great benefits including a flexible work environment, employee shares options, health and life insurance and more. To learn more about our benefits please visit https://www.paypalbenefits.com.

Who We Are:

Click Here to learn more about our culture and community.

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion 

PayPal provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.  In addition, PayPal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.  If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at [email protected].

Belonging at PayPal: 

Our employees are central to advancing our mission, and we strive to create an environment where everyone can do their best work with a sense of purpose and belonging. Belonging at PayPal means creating a workplace with a sense of acceptance and security where all employees feel included and valued. We are proud to have a diverse workforce reflective of the merchants, consumers, and communities that we serve, and we continue to take tangible actions to cultivate inclusivity and belonging at PayPal.

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