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Engineering Directorin Shanghaiat PayPal
Date Posted: 9/19/2019
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Date Posted: 9/19/2019
Job ID: R0043296
Job Description
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 286 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.
The Product & Technology, China team is looking for a strategic and experienced director of engineering to join the team in Shanghai.
The ideal candidate is a self-starter and self-motivated individual with strong passion and experience in the payment landscape in China and must have strong technology leadership and experiences building teams from the ground up. The candidate should have the technical expertise to lead software and architecture discussions and guide cross-functional product and engineering teams through functional definition, solution, and integration stages on large scale. The candidate should possess deep understanding of financial services and associated platforms and technology. This position is highly visible in the organization and involves frequent interaction with the senior executives as well as all other levels and external stakeholders, locally and globally.
Responsibilities
Build, mentor, and manage a team of software architects and engineers
Help define project scope and own deliveries
Be a technical subject matter expert and represent the full internal and external capabilities of the platform.
Lead complex architectural discussions that involve multiple systems
Identify any product/functionality gaps and collaborate internal product and technology teams to define the necessary development to support solution delivery.
Drive integration efforts and lead critical work streams of strategic initiatives sponsored by senior executives
Drive engineering excellency through CI/CD
Pro-active response in identifying and troubleshooting integration or technical issues.
Key competencies:
Superb leadership and influencing skills
Sharp business judgment, ability to see "big picture" and to prioritize
Executive presence, strong verbal and written communication
Experience building and leading high-performing engineering teams
Ability to motivate others, drive collaboration, teaming & resolve conflict between diverse stakeholder groups
Passion for and demonstrated success understanding and fulfilling internal or external customer needs; problem-solver mindset
Good negotiation skills
Ability to manage change and ambiguity with an action-orientation/drive – must thrive in a dynamic environment
High energy, strong work ethic, disciplined execution skills, willingness to do whatever it takes to deliver results
People management skills
Works efficiently under pressure
Track record of delivering tangible results
Appetite to learn and comfort with uncertainties
Ability to influence senior leaders
Qualifications
Minimum of 10+ years' hands-on experience building large scalable financial services technology platforms
Strong team building and managing experience
Experience in architecture, design and implementation of Financial Systems/Platforms such as Core Banking, Back-end Payment Hubs, Financial reconciliation and reporting
Expertise in designing for reliability, availability, scalability and performance in highly regulated Financial Services industry preferred.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Ability to create structure and drive progress in an ambiguous environment
Superb communication skills; ability to comfortably interact with executive management
Demonstrated ability to scope, create and successfully deploy new strategy/ initiatives / capabilities
Demonstrated ability to lead cross functional teams
Strong ability to make decisions & forge alignment in ambiguous and changing situations
Mandarin speaking is a plus
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