Manager, Software Development 2

dentity Engineering team builds and maintains a highly scalable, available, secure, and compliant Identity platform for PayPal. We design, develop, and enhance services that get called across every interaction between PayPal and its users and partners. Our solutions need to scale across billions of such interactions, working with petabyte-plus data, integrating with various other APIs in real time, and yet providing high availability and configurability to the business.Job Description:

A customer and employee-focused, hands-on backend engineering manager, responsible for managing a team of engineers who will be designing, implementing, and delivering highly scalable applications.

Your Day to Day:

• Provide technical leadership and guidance to teams of software engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Establish outcomes and key results (OKRs) and successfully deliver them. Drive improvements in key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Increase the productivity and velocity of delivery teams.
• Develop, plan, and execute engineering roadmaps that bring value and quality to our customers.
• Collaborate and coordinate across teams and functions to ensure technical, product, and business objectives are met.
• Instill end-to-end ownership of products, projects, features, modules, and services that you and your team deliver in all phases of the software development lifecycle.

What You Bring:

• 10+ years of experience in the software industry, with 5+ years of professional experience leading software development teams.
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills with the ability to address complex technical and non-technical challenges.
• Experience building and developing engineering teams that exhibit strong ownership, user empathy, and engineering excellence.
• Proven track record of delivering high-quality systems and software in Java/J2EE technologies and distributed systems.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and manage stakeholders expectations. 
• Ability to coach and mentor talent to reach their full potential.
• Experience in building large-scale, high throughput, low latency systems.
• Strong understanding of software development methodologies, modern technology topics and frameworks, and developer operations best