Engineering Director
- PayPal
- 15 to 18 Yrs
- Chennai
- 2 years ago
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Job Description
The Responsibilities
Engineering Ownership:
- Responsible for designing, implementing, and delivering state of the art solutions for Growth markets of PayPal that are in accordance with customer expectations, business aspirations and platform principles.
- Collaborate between various internal in our global product and engineering organizations, UX designers, content designers, platform and infrastructure teams, database teams, release engineering, site reliability engineering, analytics etc. and external stakeholders such as technology vendor partners, technology service providers and staffing vendor partners.
- Implement and enforce best practices of software engineering that bring agility, quality, performance, scale, security, and efficiency for all products being delivered. Constantly adapt and experiment new best practices followed within the industry.
- Understand and enriching technical architecture, design, and implementation patterns by working within PayPal s cross-functional technology teams.
- Build execution momentum by identifying patterns that work well and transforming the anti-patterns that inhibits team s progress.
- Focus on innovation as a key cultural element, and optimize for efficiencies by bringing unique solutions to the table and questioning status quo and refactoring existing code base.
- Manage teams that are accountable for all facets of software development like architecture, design, implementation, quality engineering, release and monitoring.
- Embrace a data and metrics driven culture to help make informed decisions, to help prioritize work, as well as to inspire followership of the purpose being pursued.
Customer Centricity
- Demonstrate a customer centric mindset as part of day-to-day work and imbibe the culture among team members.
- Take deep interest in the customer journey of our consumers and merchants in order to understand the challenges they face, and optimization opportunities for the product.
- Participate in Customer Discovery sessions to understand the voice of the customers through virtual and in-person interactions with our buyer and seller bases.
Business Partnership
- Align closely with business goals by understanding them carefully and drive engineering efficiencies for effective execution.
- Function effectively in a dynamically changing competitive and regulatory environment and manage continuously changing business needs.
- Actively meet with Sales and Integration teams, shadow them during merchant visits and handhold the business teams to aid them with new and existing integration patterns.
- Provide strategic inputs on business opportunities, and propose innovative product constructs that can be experimented in the market.
Employee Engagement, Growth and Talent Attraction:
- Recruit, mentor, and coach engineering teams towards strengthening a culture of engineering excellence, accountability, and quality.
- Help team members create their individual career development plans, and provide them with resources and support necessary to achieve their career aspirations.
- Set goals for the team members, and help them track, measure and in most cases exceed the set goals.
- Lead with empathy, transparency, clarity and pragmatism to build trust and camaraderie with and within the team.
- Participate actively in various India center level activities, as well as activities driven at a global level.
- Encourage and entertain a culture that nurtures and promotes inclusion and diversity and engages and empowers every team member to bring their best self to work every day.
Personal Traits
- Exceptional client and stakeholder relationship skills including the ability to identifying the requirements from a given set of initiatives / feature requests, negotiating the requirements to drive iterative launches, and the ability to recommend and suggest alternative business approaches based on engineering inputs.
- Empathetic leadership to build and grow inclusive and high-performance engineering teams.
- Consistent desire to learn broad industry trends, best practices across teams, and implementing change management with the focus to refine the engineering crafts of the teams
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a varied set of audiences
- Be a quick learner undaunted by complex systems. Take risks and thrive in an environment of constant change.
- Good oratory skills and experience participating in ecosystem activities like conferences, hackathons, open source platforms etc. is a preferred trait.
Technical Hands-on Skills
- Strong object-oriented programming skills and expertise.
- Deep understanding of various web scale design paradigms.
- Good understanding of mobile technologies and frameworks.
- Experience with test frameworks and Functional Test frameworks.
- Exposure to one or more server-side scripting technologies is a plus.
- Highly Competent in Enterprise Architecture/ Software design & Implementation
- Good knowledge in REST API s, Web Services.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, AWS / GCP is desired.
- Experience and Exposure to Terraform and Ansible is preferred.
- Very strong foundational knowledge in Data Structures, Algorithms, SQL/NoSQL, Operating Systems, and Software Engineering
Educational Qualifications
- Bachelor s in Computer Science or Master s in Computer Science degree or related field from an accredited college or university with around 15 years in the software technology field.
For more than 20 years, PayPal has remained at the forefront of the digital payment revolution. By leveraging technology to make financial services and commerce more convenient, affordable, and secure, our open digital payments platform gives PayPal s 400 million active account holders the confidence to connect and transact in new and powerful ways. Through a combination of technological innovation and strategic partnerships, PayPal creates better ways to manage and move money, and offers choice and flexibility when sending payments, paying, or getting paid. Available in more than 200 markets around the world, the PayPal platform, including Braintree, Venmo and Xoom, enables consumers and merchants to receive money in more than 100 currencies, withdraw funds in 56 currencies and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in 25 currencies.
PayPal provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, PayPal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at pa**************************n@pa***l.com.
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Employement Category:
Employement Type: Full timeIndustry: Internet / E-Commerce
Role Category: General / Other Software
Functional Area: Not Applicable
Role/Responsibilies: Engineering Director
Contact Details:
Company: PayPal Holdings IncLocation(s): Chennai
Keyskills: influence without authority custom orders system design large scale systems business units open source platforms data structures
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