PayPal Director Software Engineering 

United States, California, San Jose 

718206889

Essential 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 ground-breaking 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. Ability to deal with high levels of technical domain level ambiguity.
• Collaborates with direct team, managers in org, stakeholders, managers in other orgs, external partners and business stakeholders

Expected Qualifications:

• 10+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 2 years of experience leading others

Essential Responsibilities:

• Define and own the engineering strategy and roadmap for P2P and related financial services (e.g. balance, funds-in, wallet).
• Foster a culture of experimentation, innovation, high performance, and quality.
• Technical Excellence & Architecture
• Ensure architectural integrity, scalability, reliability, performance, and security of P2P systems.
• Drive adoption of best practices in engineering, code quality, automation, metrics, and observability.
• Cross-Functional Partnership
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, Risk/Compliance, Operations, and Business stakeholders to align engineering efforts with customer and business outcomes.
• Serve as a bridge between technical and non-technical stakeholders, effectively communicating complex concepts.
• Team Building & Talent Development
• Recruit, mentor, and retain top-tier engineering leaders and individual contributors.
• Develop career growth paths and technical leadership across the organization.
• Operational / Financial Oversight
• Manage budgets, resource allocations, and timelines.
• Ensure projects and initiatives are delivered on schedule and within scope.
• Customer-Centricity & Market Insights
• Drive decisions that “work backwards from the customer,” understanding end-user needs and behavior.
• Stay abreast

Expected Qualifications:10+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.2 years of experience leading others

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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 $188,000 to $323,950

Our Benefits:

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