Job Summary
This job manages software development projects, implements processes, ensures project delivery, analyzes technical issues, collaborates with stakeholders, and communicates technical issues with non-technical audiences. It involves setting operational targets and driving operational rigor.
Job Description
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
- Minimum of 8 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree or equivalent experience.
Preferred Qualification
What you need to know about the role-
This is an Engineering Manager role with Venmo Payments team. We are looking for technology leader who leads with compassion, brings out the best in other people, builds high performing teams and delivers complex projects with high level of quality in a timely manner. This role requires strong technical expertise in backend systems and experience in leading a scrum team.
Meet our team
Engineering is a craft, and at Venmo we want the internals of our software to be as elegant as the end user experience we are designing. We spend our days scaling our payment backend services and building new features to meet and exceed our user s needs and wants. We teach and learn from one another and push each other to be at our creative and analytical best. We work to push our technology forward with respect to functionality, performance, reliability, and scalability.
Your way to impact
You will have the opportunity to work on one of the biggest payments platforms that caters to 65 million active users and processes transactions worth billions of dollars. Given all these fun challenges, we are a fast-paced organization going through rapid growth that is solving technical challenges at exponential scale. As an organization, we have a strong culture of committing to goals and delivering on timelines.
Your day to day
- Manage a scrum team of 4-6 engineers.
- Exhibits end-to-end ownership of deliverables.
- Directly manage software development projects ((including program management) and execution through individual contributors.
- Implements processes to drive strong operational hygiene for all components and systems within their group
- Works with NiaB (Product, PMO) to deliver high-quality solutions on time
- Provide technical leadership to scrum team and own the performance and availability of the services as well as participate in on call rotations and provide support during incidences.
- Coach engineers on team and help them in their career growth
- Build strong partnerships with various non-engineering teams such as product, support, finance operations, compliance and legal.
What do you need to bring
- Bachelor s and/or masters in computer science, or a related field of study, or equivalent experience
- 8+years experience with Python or equivalent high-level programming language
- 4+ years of experience managing a team of software engineers including performance management.
- Advanced skills with RDBMS and NoSQL data stores, caching solutions (e.g. Redis, ElastiCache, Hazelcast) and messaging/queuing protocols/systems such as SQS/Kafka/RabbitMQ/Pulsar
- Ability to lead projects and mentor all levels of engineering staff, along with managing relationships with Product, Engineering Operations and non-technical business and support teams
- Expert with distributed services and backend systems
- Expertise with building services on public cloud AWS, GCP, Azure
- Experience in managing infrastructure as code using Terraform
- Experience working with fault-tolerant and scalable distributed services and systems.
Subsidiary
PayPal
Travel Percent
0
Our Benefits
Who We Are
Belonging at PayPal
