Engineering Manager - Mobile

Company: Venmo
Location: San Jose
Posted on: January 9, 2025

Job Description:

The CompanyPayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years. Creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure, PayPal empowers consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy.We operate a global, two-sided network at scale that connects hundreds of millions of merchants and consumers. We help merchants and consumers connect, transact, and complete payments, whether they are online or in person. PayPal is more than a connection to third-party payment networks. We provide proprietary payment solutions accepted by merchants that enable the completion of payments on our platform on behalf of our customers.We offer our customers the flexibility to use their accounts to purchase and receive payments for goods and services, as well as the ability to transfer and withdraw funds. We enable consumers to exchange funds more safely with merchants using a variety of funding sources, which may include a bank account, a PayPal or Venmo account balance, PayPal and Venmo branded credit products, a credit card, a debit card, certain cryptocurrencies, or other stored value products such as gift cards, and eligible credit card rewards. Our PayPal, Venmo, and Xoom products also make it safer and simpler for friends and family to transfer funds to each other. We offer merchants an end-to-end payments solution that provides authorization and settlement capabilities, as well as instant access to funds and payouts. We also help merchants connect with their customers, process exchanges and returns, and manage risk. We enable consumers to engage in cross-border shopping and merchants to extend their global reach while reducing the complexity and friction involved in enabling cross-border trade.Our beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day. We live each day guided by our core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness. Together, our values ensure that we work together as one global team with our customers at the center of everything we do - and they push us to ensure we take care of ourselves, each other, and our communities.Job Description Summary:Meet our team:Just Venmo me. You may have heard-or used-this phrase before. Venmo has reached verb-status, becoming synonymous with "sending & receiving money." But Venmo isn't just about transactions. It's about interactions. It's where your money finds meaning as you share, connect, and split purchases with friends. People love sending money and paying with Venmo, and we've come a long way from our humble beginnings as a P2P app. Millions of users have now also made our products such as the Venmo Debit Card, Venmo Checkout, Venmo Credit Card, Crypto on Venmo (and more) a part of their financial lives, and there's so much more we can do as their go-to for fast, safe, and secure payments.Venmo was founded on the principles of breaking down the intimidating barriers around financial transactions to make them intuitive, friendly, and even fun. And it worked: people love sending money with Venmo, and we are growing rapidly! But we are only just getting started. We want to take that magic of sending money with Venmo and cascade it into every place where people use money. That means connecting people to their money in the most intuitive and fun way possible, then connecting people with each other. Users already love Venmo, but we know there are lots of things we have not thought of to make the experience of using Venmo even more delightful and valuable. All that is going to take a lot of figuring out. Let us figure it out together!Job Description:Your Way to Impact:The primary role of the Engineering Manager - Mobile is to manage scrum teams, responsible for the delivery of world class mobile applications, services and APIs for Venmo Mobile and related projects. This position requires background in software engineering, technical and people management. The successful candidate will work with other engineering managers to take care of day-to-day operations of a software engineering team and manage the quality delivery of programs within schedule.Your Day to Day:

• Managing a rapidly evolving technology stack on a diverse set of platforms ranging from Android, iOS and Rest services.
• Facilitating and driving key technology decisions with senior technology stakeholders.
• Be a mentor, technical leader and thought leader for a talented team of mobile engineers, challenging them and helping them grow.
• Partnering with product, technology, program management and analytics stakeholders to balance aggressive roadmap against engineering principles.
• Bring innovation to the table that helps in improving the resiliency of products you are responsible for, sell your ideas and be part of the change.
• Tracking business impact of features on a regular basis, and rely on performance data to make informed decisions about possible changes or improvements.
• Deep collaboration with cross functional engineering and product teams to evolve the reporting platform.What You Bring:
  • Experience in designing, implementing and maintaining high performance, high availability, large-scale mobile applications.
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to grasp and convey complex product requirements or technical concepts.
  • Ability to partner with business units, product management, program management and cross-functional teams to deliver business results with agility and high quality.
  • Excellent time management skills and ability to work on concurrent assignments with different priorities.
  • Proven results-oriented person with focus on customer experience and delivering quality products.
  • 8+ years' experience in mobile development.
  • 3+ years of experience managing and growing engineering teams that are responsible for large scale, high volume mobile applications.
  • Strong knowledge of common design patterns, algorithms, and object-oriented programming with expertise in design patterns such as MVC and MVVM.
  • Solid knowledge of Kotlin, Swift, web services (GraphQL, REST/JSON).
  • Demonstrated development team building and people management skills.
  • Strong understanding of testing best practices and familiarity with at least one testing framework for mobile development.Additional Job Description:Subsidiary: VenmoTravel Percent: 0PayPal is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Actual Compensation is based on various factors including but not limited to work location, and relevant skills and experience. The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits.The U.S. national annual pay range for this role is $96900 to $234300.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 benefits to help you thrive in every stage of life. We champion your financial, physical, and mental health by offering valuable benefits and resources to help you care for the whole you.We have great benefits including a flexible work environment, employee shares options, health and life insurance and more.Who We Are: to learn more about our culture and community.Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion: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.Belonging at PayPal:Our employees are central to advancing our mission, and we strive to create an environment where everyone can do their best work with a sense of purpose and belonging. Belonging at PayPal means creating a workplace with a sense of acceptance and security where all employees feel included and valued.Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please .We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don't hesitate to apply.Notice to Applicants and Employees who reside within New York City. Click to view the notice.
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