Director, Core Banking Platforms & APIs (Hybrid)

PayPal; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 198,000 - 294,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Balanced hybrid work model

Annual bonus

Equity

Job summary

PayPal seeks a Director, Head of Core Banking Technology Platforms, to steer strategy, architecture, and operation of deposits, lending, and payments platforms. The role unifies capabilities via composable APIs and event-driven design, coordinating with identity, fraud, credit, and finance platforms.

Deep banking and payments expertise is required for secure, scalable infrastructure. The role reports to senior leadership and leads multi-domain programs with a focus on regulatory compliance and

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering or technology-platform experience, including significant leadership responsibility.
• 7+ years leading engineering teams responsible for banking, payments, or other highly regulated platforms.
• Experience implementing, modernizing, or operating core banking platforms spanning deposits, lending, or payments.
• Deep understanding of deposit accounts, loan systems, transaction posting, interest processing, payment clearing and settlement, GL integration.
• Experience implementing payment gateways or direct bank connectivity to ACH, wire, or instant-payment networks.
• Experience building enterprise API platforms and event-driven distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of ledger design, double-entry accounting, financial controls, and data lineage.
• Experience integrating banking platforms with identity, fraud, credit decisioning, payments, finance, treasury, compliance, data, and servicing systems.
• Proven ability to deliver highly available, secure, auditable platforms at significant transaction scale.
• Experience managing critical technology vendors and holding them accountable for delivery, reliability, and SLAs.
• Strong track record of recruiting and leading senior engineers, architects, engineering managers, and platform teams.
• Ability to communicate complex technical and operational issues clearly to executives, business partners, auditors, and regulators.

Responsibilities

• Directs and controls the delivery of business and technical outcomes that comprise multiple projects and operational activities within a domain through organizational and technical leadership.
• Defines engineering health objectives that drive organization health, engineering best practices and operational targets.
• Drives product and technical strategy with cross-functional leaders across the enterprise to deliver domain goals.
• Responsible for the delivery of programs, establishing annual organizational goals and ensuring performance and results that impact both their domain and potentially enterprise.
• Develops engineering strategy that translates into operational and tactical plans; uses ground-breaking methods to think beyond existing solutions.
• Sets the tri-annual roadmap for a domain level organization. Defines the operational strategy for a domain based on a defined budget.
• Evaluates key business challenges and can complete complex, ambiguous initiatives having impact across engineering.
• Collaborates with direct team, managers in org, stakeholders, managers in other orgs, external partners and business stakeholders.

Skills

Leadership

Executive communication

Banking/Payments domain knowledge

API platforms

Event-driven distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's or advanced degree in computer science / engineering or related discipline

Tools

APIs

Job description

PayPal seeks a Director, Head of Core Banking Technology Platforms, to steer strategy, architecture, and operation of deposits, lending, and payments platforms. The role unifies capabilities via composable APIs and event-driven design, coordinating with identity, fraud, credit, and finance platforms.

Deep banking and payments expertise is required for secure, scalable infrastructure. The role reports to senior leadership and leads multi-domain programs with a focus on regulatory compliance and