Overview

Director, Software Engineering role at PayPal. This job directs business and technical outcomes, defines engineering health objectives, drives product strategy, evaluates business challenges, develops engineering strategy, sets the organizational roadmap, and collaborates with stakeholders. It involves ensuring alignment with organizational goals and dealing with high levels of ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Directs and controls the delivery of business and technical outcomes that comprise multiple projects and operational activities within a domain through organizational and technical leadership
• Defines engineering health objectives that drive organization health, engineering best practices and operational targets
• Drives product and technical strategy with cross-functional leaders across the enterprise to deliver Domain goals
• Responsible for the delivery of programs, establishing annual organizational goals and ensuring performance and results that impact both their domain and potentially enterprise
• Develops engineering strategy that translates into operational and tactical plans; uses innovative methods to think beyond existing solutions
• Sets the tri-annual roadmap for a domain level organization. Defines the operational strategy for a domain based on a defined budget
• Evaluates key business challenges and can complete complex, ambiguous initiatives having impact across engineering; directs the development of new or innovative solutions, with the ability to handle high levels of technical domain ambiguity
• Collaborates with direct team, managers in org, stakeholders, managers in other orgs, external partners and business stakeholders

Expected Qualifications

• Minimum of 15 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 3 years management experience

Additional Responsibilities and Preferred Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of distributed systems design, full-stack application development, RESTful services, mobile and cloud computing technologies
• Success in partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver global-class products in highly dynamic environments
• Ability to balance business priorities and technical rigor within fast-paced delivery cycles
• Cloud migration experience

Compensation and Benefits

PayPal is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Actual compensation is based on various factors including work location and relevant skills and experience. The total compensation may include an annual performance bonus, equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit https://www.paypalbenefits.com.

The U.S. national annual pay range for this role is $188,000 to $323,950. 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 may indicate recruitment fraud. For more information, visit https://careers.pypl.com/contact-us.

For many employees, PayPal offers a balanced hybrid work model with 3 days in the office and 2 days flexible, to provide in-person collaboration and remote work options.

Equal Opportunity and Belonging

PayPal is an equal employment opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. See our policies at PayPal sites for more information. Belonging at PayPal means creating a workplace where all employees feel included and valued.

REQ ID R0131370