PayPal Manager Software Engineering 

India, Tamil Nadu, Chennai 

975168914

This job manages software development projects, implements processes, ensures project delivery, analyzes technical issues, collaborates with stakeholders, and communicates technical issues with non-technical audiences. It involves setting operational targets and driving operational rigor.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Directly manages software development projects (including program management) and execution through individual contributors. May also lead project teams across platforms or groups
• Implements processes to drive strong operational hygiene for all components and systems within their group
• Responsible for the delivery of projects, including quality and timeliness, that impact their domain and potentially one other
• Demonstrates strong tactical ability by managing the roadmap for a scrum team responsible for technical issues of diverse scope where analysis requires an understanding of current business or tends
• Competent at communicating technical issues with non-technical audiences
• Analyzes multiple sources of information and identifies & resolves complex technical, operational, and organizational problems relating to software development.
• Collaborates with direct team, managers in org, stakeholders such as Product Owners & PMO

Expected Qualifications:

• Minimum of 8 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualification:

• Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of software engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and accountability.
• Partner with product, architecture, and operations teams to define the roadmap and deliverables for Wallet-as-a-Service.
• Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development planning.

• Drive the design, development, and deployment of scalable wallet services (e.g., onboarding, KYC, ledger, tokenization, account management, compliance, and payment orchestration).
• Ensure the team delivers high-quality, secure, and performant software that meets regulatory and business requirements.
• Make architectural decisions in collaboration with senior engineers and architects to ensure extensibility and resilience of the wallet platform.
• Oversee operational excellence through monitoring, incident management, and continuous improvement.

• Collaborate with product management to translate business requirements into technical solutions and engineering priorities.
• Partner with dependent engineering teams to ensure smooth delivery of projects and solutions.
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies and industry trends (e.g., AI tools, cloud computing environment) to guide the team.

• Minimum of 8 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

• Solid understanding of RESTful API development and HTTP client libraries
• Solid understanding of web application tech stack, including React, Node.JS
• Experience with cloud-based data platforms (e.g. Dynamo DB, Spanner et..)
• Experience with Devops best practices,containerization(Docker/Kubernetes),version control systems (Git) and CI/CD
• Proven ability to drive technical strategy, prioritize tasks and allocate resources for scalable solutions
• Experienced in managing team performance, building GenAI based solutions and experience working in agile development environments
• Ability to align technical projects with business goals
• Lead the development, optimization and maintenance of monitoring and RCA applications to enable self-service for business partners to establish capabilities in fraud/incident detection and investigation.
• Strong capability to understand different business needs, and translate them into engineering tasks, push for delivery with quality.
• Manage and develop a full stack engineering team with strong people management and coaching skills, experienced in providing feedback and performance evaluation to team members, and maximize team output.
• Collaborate with engineers from other sites, product teams and business stakeholders to understand data requirements and deliver appropriate solutions.
• Proficiency in Java with Spring Boot framework and Spring ecosystem.
• Good communication skills, have experience in conflict resolution and have flexibility to sync up with teams across different locations/time zones remotely

Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please