PayPal Sr Manager Software Engineering 

United States, California, San Jose 

132701559

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

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 implementinghackathons/innovationsprints 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

Travel Percent:

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 .

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

Our Benefits:

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