Manager, Software Engineering

Description

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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:

• 5+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.

Additional Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications:

Additional Responsibilities

• Lead a distributed team of DevOps engineers across San Jose, California, Mexico,Bangalore, and Chicago, settinga clear visionand strategy for PayPal mobile application delivery pipelines. Collaborate with stakeholders and management to plan and define roadmaps for mobile build infrastructure, automation, and deployment processes. Provide regular weekly status updates on project deliverables, ensuring transparency and alignment across the organization.

• Champion engineering excellence through robust scrum practices,establishingeffective sprint cadences, ceremonies, and delivery rhythms. Drive operational excellence by implementing comprehensive observability solutions, monitoring, alerting, and SLA management to ensure pipeline reliability and performance.

• Oversee the engineering standards by which mobile teams at PayPal build, test, and deploy applications at scale. Drive technical excellence in mobile CI/CD practices, advocating for best practices in pipeline automation,buildoptimization, security scanning, and release management.Providehands-on technical guidance to engineers on the team as they tackle complex challenges,leveragingdeep understanding of mobile development workflows.

• Work closely with Platform Engineers and mobile engineering teams to support their day-to-day development needs. Partner with security, infrastructure, and product teams to ensure we are building DevOps solutions that enable mobile teams to move quickly, deploy confidently, and focus on delivering customer value rather than wrestling with tooling and infrastructure.

• Always frames solutions in terms of enabling faster, safer releases that improve customer experience. Understands the mobile DevOps landscape and especially what "good looks like" across existing solutions in the market, including emerging tools and methodologies.

Additional Qualifications

• Proven experience in senior leadership roles within software engineering overseeing mobile DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, or mobile platform engineering

• Strong background in iOS or Android development, with deep understanding of mobile development workflows, build processes, and deployment challenges

• Demonstratedexpertisein engineering and operational excellence, including implementing and leading agile/scrum practices, sprint planning(i.e.Jira), retrospectives, and continuous improvement initiatives

• Strong experience with observability platforms, monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure high availability and performance of CI/CD infrastructure

• Strong experience leading geographically distributed teams across multiple regions and time zones

• Experience managing DevOps engineers with the technical depth to provide hands-on guidance and mentorship to the team

• Strong technical background in mobile build systems (Xcode, Gradle), CI/CD platforms (experience with Harness is a plus), containerization, and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure)

• Excellent strategic thinking, with the ability to lead and inspire teams across global locations and drive adoption of DevOps best practices across the mobile engineering organization

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including mobile engineering, Platform Engineers, QA, security, product, and infrastructure teams

Subsidiary:

PayPal

Travel Percent:

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The base pay for this role will depend on where you work and the relevant experience and expertise you bring. The expected range of pay for this role by location is:

Primary Location | Pay Range:

Chicago, Illinois | ($160,500.00 - $238,700.00 Annually)

Additional Location(s) | Pay Range:

San Jose, California | ($176,500.00 - $262,350.00 Annually) Additional compensation for this role may include an annual performance bonus, equity, or other incentive compensation, as applicable.

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For the majority of employees, PayPal's balanced hybrid work model offers 3 days in the office for effective in-person collaboration and 2 days at your choice of either the PayPal office or your home workspace, ensuring that you equally have the benefits and conveniences of both locations.

Our Benefits:

At PayPal, we’re committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. And we can’t do this without our most important asset-you. That’s why we offer comprehensive, choice-based programs, to support all aspects of personal wellbeing—physical, emotional, and financial—delivering meaningful value where it matters most. We strive to create a flexible, balanced work culture with a holistic approach to benefits, including generous paid time off, healthcare coverage for you and your family, and resources to create financial security and support your mental health.

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Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

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