Sr Manager, Software Engineering

PayPal PayPal · Fintech · San Jose, CA +2 · Software Engineering

Senior Manager to lead Venmo Search & Feed teams, driving the development of world-class mobile applications, services, and APIs. Responsible for overseeing engineering teams, ensuring timely delivery of innovative solutions, setting operational targets, and creating roadmaps for multiple scrum teams. Focuses on user-facing products within the fintech domain.

What you'd actually do

  1. Manages multiple projects through direct reports and may directly manage individual software development projects. Ensures project delivery through supervision of costs, methods, and staffing
  2. Sets operational targets that impact their group and drives operational rigor around engineering KPIs such as unit test coverage, uptime/resiliency targets, execution velocity
  3. Responsible for the delivery of projects and continuous improvement that impact up to three domains
  4. Leads the effort in resolving highly complex or unique technical situations that impact business success or addresses future concepts, products, or technologies
  5. Creates the roadmap for multiple scrum teams. Responsible for turning a high-level operational strategy into a well-defined resourcing plan

Skills

Required

  • Experience leading others
  • Software development project management
  • Roadmap creation
  • Operational rigor
  • Technical leadership

Nice to have

  • Mobile application development
  • API development
  • Search and Feed systems
  • Fintech domain experience

What the JD emphasized

  • 8+ years relevant experience
  • Experience leading others