Veterans Preferred - Engineering Director, Pay Later Merchant

Company: PayPal
Location: Scottsdale
Posted on: May 5, 2021

Job Description:

Military Veterans are Encouraged to Apply. Job Description Fueled by a fundamental belief that having access to financial services creates opportunity, PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) is committed to democratizing financial services and empowering people and businesses to join and thrive in the global economy. Our open digital payments platform gives PayPal's 375 million active account holders the confidence to connect and transact in new and powerful ways, whether they are online, on a mobile device, in an app, or in person. Through a combination of technological innovation and strategic partnerships, PayPal creates better ways to manage and move money, and offers choice and flexibility when sending payments, paying or getting paid. Available in more than 200 markets around the world, the PayPal platform, including Braintree, Venmo and Xoom enables consumers and merchants to receive money in more than 100 currencies, withdraw funds in 56 currencies and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in 25 currencies. The PayPal Consumer Credit organization is excited to onboard a hands-on Director of Engineering to lead our very strategic Pay Later product and platform build-outs. This leader will have a fantastic opportunity to build cunsumer-facing products and user delight experience on the web and the mobile. This leader must demonstrate a data-driven approach and a platform mindset keeping its uptime, availability, scalability, and performance in mind. Passion for developer experience, high performance integrations and operational excellence is a must as this team creates technology integrated by PayPal Merchants. This leader should be obsessed with the customer, their needs, their pains, etc. This role expects close collaboration and partnership with the head of product and design in developing strategies for global expansion of Pay Later product offerings. Understanding customers' needs, their pain-points, and aligning them with business priorities would be critical traits. This leader will have an opportunity to expand the high-performing engineering organization with Node.JS, iOS, Android, and Backend Java engineers. Being a mentor, a coach, and an enabler are some essential qualities of this individual. This person should have the technical expertise to lead software and architecture discussions and guide cross-functional product and engineering teams through design, development, integration, and deployment stages on a large scale. A deep understanding of financial services, platforms, and technologies would be a huge bonus. Responsibilities: Define technical vision and strategy for PayPal Pay Later products. Design and lead continuous delivery for a multi-year technical roadmap, balancing short- and long-term goals and investments. Manage and inspire software engineers to innovate, invent, implement, and deploy complex software solutions in a commercial, mission-critical environment. Partner closely with Product Management and User Experience Design to create, drive, and deliver innovative, compelling, and user-friendly products. Develop and grow leadership talent through active mentoring, coaching, succession planning, and retention strategies for key talent in a growing, competitive economic environment. Qualifications: 10 years of professional experience in technology/engineering leadership with a demonstrated track record of technical innovation, presenting product vision and roadmaps, leading end-to-end product development, and leading software engineering teams. Have led multiple teams that share common services as well as product strategy Have built and scaled systems that handle 100s of millions of requests a day Have successes shipping products that have external APIs or SDKs used by your customers Master's or Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience. We're a purpose-driven company whose beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day. We hold ourselves to our One Team Behaviors which demand that we hold the highest ethical standards, to empower an open and diverse workplace, and strive to treat everyone who is touched by our business with dignity and respect. Our employees challenge the status quo, ask questions, and find solutions. We want to break down barriers to financial empowerment. Join us as we change the way the world defines financial freedom. 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 paypalglobaltalentacquisitionpaypal.com. R0069091

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