We are looking for a engineering thought leader with deep experience in advertising / search / targeting domains in consumer web technology industry, to join a core team that is driving Targeting and Personalization driven products. These produts will help our partners grow their business and grow commerce overall.
You must be data driven in your approach, strategic, analytical, and effective at communicating with internal and external partners. You will mostly likely have a background in retail / eccomerce / advertising as well as consumer web experience. This is a highly visible, high impact role, in which you will partner with diverse cross-functional teams to lead, execute, monitor, and deliver results for many initiatives. Successful candidates would have architected, designed and developed solutions that are live on many websites globally serving hundreds of millions of impressions.
Be an engineering thought leader for PayPal commerce growth and other teams building commerce /advertising/marketing solutions for retailers.
Scale the engineering teams to hire and develop Javascript, Mobile and algorithmic engineering skills.
Hire, develop and retain top talent and be responsible for the overall talent strategy and structure of the org.
Quickly learn the expectations of our 14M and growing retail customer base around latency, availability and stability of our products.
Partner with product & design to leverage technology innovations and platform thinking to exceed the customer expectations.
Provide thought leadership to the broad org around engineering and product strategy for solutions that deliver seamless and frictionless experiences on customers’ websites.
Guide decisions on architecture and technical strategy.
Manage competing priorities, bring predictability to the team’s overall performance and delivery.
Take full accountability for quality, innovation and timely execution finding appropriate balance and pushing the envelope on all three dimensions.
Build a strong team to ensure solid bench and appropriate support for the rest of the team members.
Be a critical and active member of the overall commerce growth leadership team.
Work cross-organizationally with product, design, marketing, analytics, operations, and other domains, to ensure alignment with overall strategy and plans.
Desired Skills and Experience:
10+ Years of engineering experience, 4+ years in leadership roles.
2+ Years development experience on both client side and server side Javascript, delivering solutions such as ad placements that are integrated with global websites and cart platforms.
Web development experience across multiple stacks ideally either Node or Java being one of them.
4+ Years managing software development teams, excellent people management skills are a must.
Demonstrated ability to hire, develop and retain top technical talent
Experience working in a large matrix org collaborating with product and design partners to co-own products
Experience building high volume customer facing applications at scale
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Fluent in good architecture design
Passion for easily readable code and interest in getting close to the code.
Passion for quality and interest in getting hands-on with testing, triage, bug fix etc.
Firm grasp of software development lifecycle.
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