Senior Software Engineering Manager

$107,300 - $259,600/Yr

PayPal India Private Limited - San Jose, CA

Full-time - Senior

San Jose, CA

About the position

The Senior Software Engineering Manager at PayPal will lead the Marketing Technology team, focusing on creating a best-in-class platform for application development. This role involves overseeing the design, development, and deployment of scalable, reliable, and fault-tolerant software applications, while ensuring high performance and security. The manager will work closely with engineers, architects, and product owners to deliver impactful features that enhance customer engagement globally.

Responsibilities

• Understand the Marketing Domain in depth and deliver features in PayPal that is scalable, reliable and fault-tolerant
• Design, develop, test, and deploy multi-tier distributive software applications using Java in a Linux/Unix environment, ensuring high performance, security, and scalability
• Lead engineering execution for multiple features, utilizing technical expertise to propose innovative solutions
• Manage the team's project deliverables, timelines, and priorities across the engineering team
• Engage in design and code reviews, providing constructive feedback to peers
• Quickly ramp-up on different components/services built on various technology stacks
• Work closely with users to understand their problems and exercise empathy while solving them
• Collaborate with Architects to guide the vision and direction for the Marketing Technology team
• Troubleshoot critical issues and recommend root cause fixes
• Automate maintenance tasks to ensure minimal operational overhead
• Share knowledge and experience to onboard new team members
• Facilitate key technology decisions with senior stakeholders
• Mentor and lead a talented team of engineers
• Hire for engineering roles and build a world-class engineering team
• Partner with product, technology, program management, and analytics stakeholders to balance roadmaps against engineering principles
• Track business impact of features and rely on performance data for informed decisions
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering and product teams to evolve the reporting platform

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree in computer science or an equivalent combination of technical education and work experience
• 12+ years of experience developing large scale applications in Java, Spring Core, and Spring Batch
• Good hands-on exposure to SQL technologies and understanding of relational databases
• Deep understanding and experience of applying software design patterns, data structures, object-oriented design, and algorithms
• Experience working with large-scale, highly available, and distributed systems
• Excellent debugging skills to resolve issues and identify solutions
• Experience developing automated unit, integration, and functional tests in a Java environment using tools like JUnit, Mockito, or Spring Test
• Experience designing and developing RESTful web services
• Understanding of Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) concepts
• Experience using Atlassian JIRA, Service Now, and Atlassian Confluence tools
• Experience in delivering projects using Agile Methodology
• Demonstrated development team building and people management skills

Nice-to-haves

• Experience working on SaaS platforms like Adobe Experience Platform or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

Benefits

• Flexible work environment
• Employee shares options
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Performance bonuses
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits