Manager, Software Development 2

What you need to know about the role:

we are looking for strong technologists who are passionate to solve large scale highly complex computer engineering problems, in a repeatable and maintainable way. Our engineers need strong competencies in software design, API, data structures and algorithms, along with a deep understanding of business processes. You will work alongside the best and the brightest engineering talent in the industry.  

Meet our team:

Payments Risk Engineering team is responsible for fraud detection & risk management. We design, develop, enhance, and support services that get called across every money movement transaction between PayPal and its users and partners. Our solutions need to scale across millions of such interactions, integrating with various other APIs in real time and yet providing high availability and configurability to the business. We strive to keep up with advances in technology and science and tie those back to business needs. Job Description:

We are looking for a talented Software Development Manager to help us strengthen our world class risk prevention and mitigation systems to successfully combat cyber fraud. Risk Engineering team is responsible for fraud detection, risk management and regulatory compliance services across PayPal - globally. We design, develop, enhance, and support services that get called across every interaction between Users, Partners and PayPal. To achieve this, we are always looking at advances in technology likes AI, Machine learning and data science and tying those back to business needs. In this versatile role, you will be responsible for helping shape the future of mission critical risk systems. As an engineering leader in our team, you will be collaborating closely with engineering, product, and operations teams across PayPal to design and develop features for our highly complex and heavily distributed risk environment.  

Your day to day:

• Be driven to get results and resolve blockers that get in your way. 
• Be proactive and anticipate/handle issues before they escalate. 
• Exhibit strong technical leadership and challenge the status quo when needed. 
• Demonstrate a high level of curiosity and keep abreast of the latest technologies. 
• Show pride of ownership and strive for excellence in everything you do. 
• Bring fresh ideas for how to continuously improve our software and your team. 
• Advocate for ways to remediate technical debt on an ongoing basis. 
• Advocate & promote clean and scalable coding principles. 

Your way to impact

• Lead design, development, and testing of features/functions delivered via applications and services. 
• Lead and inspire high-performing engineering teams. 
• Drive a results-oriented culture with a strong focus on engineering excellence, execution, and craftsmanship as a customer champion. 
• Manage stakeholder planning and communications ensuring key outcomes. 
• Develop trusted partnerships with developers, partners, and architecture leaders to drive optimized platform product delivery. 
• Bring a strong industry perspective that can help shape and evolve the PayPal developer experience to be as good or better than other leading technology organizations. 
• Foster an innovation culture to develop and explore new ideas and opportunities. 
• Work with operations teams to ensure applications and services are highly available and reliable. 
• Build, coach, and manage a strong team of engineers that set the standard and can up-level the overall talent of the extended organization. 
• Participate in formal and informal code reviews to ensure code quality. 
• Be a champion of high-performance, secure, and reliable software services. 
• Recruit, coach, and mentor the best engineering talent. 
• Build, coach, and manage a strong team of engineers that set the standard and can up-level the overall talent of the extended organization. 
• Balance urgent and effective action, commitment to excellence, and taking the initiative to resolve problems; holds internal stakeholders accountable where appropriate. 

What you need to bring:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical discipline  
• 9+ years experience in software engineering, architecture, and/or product development experience. 
• 2+ years of leadership experience as a people manager. 
• Strong applied experience. You've built, broken, and rebuilt software applications. We're looking for creative thinkers who also know how to create real-world products. 
• Effective management and collaboration with geographically distributed teams. 
• Proficient in back-end development using Java EE technologies. 
• Demonstrated strength at leading all phases of the product lifecycle, from setting the vision to roadmap planning, capturing requirements, project definition, execution, and operational excellence. 
• Working on problems involving scaling and innovation in fast-paced high-pressure environments. 
• Strong communication, listening, interpersonal, influencing, and negotiation skills; able to convey important messages in a clear and compelling manner. 
• Experience with development of scalable and distributed Java services. 
• Competent in design/implementation for reliability, availability, scalability and performance. 
• Competent in software engineering tools and best practices