PayPal
Sr Manager, Software Engineering
$178K–$292K
San Jose, California, United States of America +1 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 25, 2026
- Location
- San Jose, California, United States of America
Austin, Texas, United States of America - Experience
- 8+ years relevant experience; Bachelor’s degree OR any equivalent combination of education and experience. Experience leading others. No additional years specified for preferred experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree OR any equivalent combination of education and experience.
About the job
Leads engineering for Venmo Commerce products, setting technical direction and delivering scalable customer and merchant experiences.
What you'll do
- Lead and develop engineering teams, including hiring, coaching, and organizational design.
- Own technical direction and roadmap; deliver complex initiatives while maintaining quality, reliability, security, and operational excellence.
- Partner with Product, Design, Analytics, and business teams to shape products and help teams use AI in development, testing, debugging, and operations.
What they ask for
- Experience leading software engineering teams and delivering complex products at scale.
- Strong technical judgment and experience with large-scale distributed systems and modern mobile, web, and backend architectures.
- Experience taking products or major capabilities from idea through launch, iteration, and scale.
- AI fluency and hands-on use of modern AI tools in software development.
Nice to have
- Experience with payments, fintech, or highly available financial systems.
- Experience building consumer products at significant scale, or in commerce, marketplaces, social products, platforms, or merchant tools.
Pay
$196,500.00 - $291,500.00 Annually (base salary, San Jose, California); $178,500.00 - $265,100.00 Annually (base salary, Austin, Texas)
AI focus
Help the team use AI in software development, testing, debugging, and operations; apply hands-on knowledge of AI tools’ strengths and limitations to improve engineering velocity and quality.
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