Fueled by a fundamental belief that having access to financial services creates opportunity, PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) is committed to democratizing financial services and empowering people and businesses to join and thrive in the global economy. Our open digital payments platform gives PayPal’s 305 million active account holders the confidence to connect and transact in new and powerful ways, whether they are online, on a mobile device, in an app, or in person. 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.

In this role the manager has immense flexibility to organize and execute against our vision, including:

• Attracting and hiring world class talent to build out a world class API Platform team.

• Defining our multi-year technology and product strategy

• Driving a service operator first mindset in the team, ensuring the team and platform is operationally excellent and has clear processes and responsibilities for live issues.

• Organizing the team and development processes to continuously improve our development efficiency

• Innovating on behalf of our partners to provide new capabilities, greatly simplify the platform, and drive down technical debt

We are looking for the following in a candidate:

• Ability to drive the hiring process, including sourcing, to land top tier talent

• Extensive Distributed Systems experience

• Extensive public facing API experience

• Strong understanding of SDLC in a 24x7x365 highly trafficked environment, including best practices for development, testing, preventing service interruptions, and ensuring API quality

• Technical and operational understanding of distributed systems at scale (monitoring, deployment, alerting, resiliency, etc)

• Excellent technical communications skills to communicate at all levels, from SVPs to intern engineers.

• Courage to drive the right thing the right way in the face of randomization and pressure to do things quickly instead of correctly

• At least five years managing others including two years managing managers

• At least fifteen years software engineering experience in any role

• At least five years of experience software engineering building backend services and public APIs at high scale, availability, and resiliency.

• Payments industry experience a strong plus

We're a purpose-driven company whose beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day. We hold ourselves to our One Team Behaviors which demand that we hold the highest ethical standards, to empower an open and diverse workplace, and strive to treat everyone who is touched by our business with dignity and respect. Our employees challenge the status quo, ask questions, and find solutions. We want to break down barriers to financial empowerment. Join us as we change the way the world defines financial freedom.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 paypalglobaltalentacquisition@paypal.com.