Senior Staff Software Engineer - Backend Python

1 Month ago • 12-12 Years • Backend Development • $169,500 PA - $366,850 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

At Venmo, we are building a beloved product that connects the world and empowers people through payments. We seek intellectually curious individuals who are driven to inspire and be inspired. Engineering is viewed as a craft, and we aim for our software's internals to be as elegant as our user experience. Our daily work involves scaling infrastructure and developing new features to meet user demands. We foster a collaborative environment where knowledge is shared and individuals are encouraged to reach their creative and analytical best. As a Subject Matter Expert in Venmo Engineering, you will possess high levels of technical talent, programming expertise, and communication skills. You will be dedicated to understanding our product and enhancing our systems' strength and resilience.
Must have:
  • Establish technical leadership with strong software architecture understanding.
  • Manage cross-functional engineering teams.
  • Evangelize technical standards and best practices.
  • Lead projects and mentor engineering staff.
  • Manage relationships with Product and support teams.
  • Architect fault-tolerant distributed services.
  • Experience with DevOps and cloud providers.
  • Strong understanding of testing best practices.
  • Excellent communication skills, explaining technical issues to non-technical audiences.
  • Passionate about mentoring and developing software engineers.
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
Good to have:
  • Experience managing geographically distributed teams.
  • Advanced skills with data stores, caching, and messaging systems.
Perks:
  • Flexible work environment
  • Employee shares options
  • Health and life insurance

Job Details

Job Description

At Venmo, we are creating a product that people love. We strive to create a delightful user experience while connecting the world and empowering people through payments. We are looking for intellectually curious people who want to be inspired and inspire others to change the world. Engineering is a craft, and at Venmo we want the internals of our software to be as elegant as the end user experience we are designing. We spend our days scaling our infrastructure and building new features to meet and exceed our user’s needs and wants. We teach and learn from one another and push each other to be at our creative and analytical best. 

As a member of Venmo Engineering, you will act as a subject matter expert. We are looking for technologists with the highest levels of technical talent, programming, and communication skills with a keen desire to deeply understand our product and how to make our systems stronger and more resilient.  

Come join our team! 

What you will do 

  • Establish a track record of successful technical leadership supported by a solid understanding of software architecture and the ability to effectively manage a team of cross-functional engineers. 

  • Evangelist for technical standards, engineering best practices, and quality across larger Venmo team and PayPal, Inc.  

  • Experience in managing geographically distributed teams preferred. 

  • Be leveraged for your technical expertise by leaders, providing significant input or ownership of decisions impacting multiple teams, processes to be designed and followed, and resource consumption decisions.  

  • Be able to make informed decisions between competing priorities and identify the optimal solutions to problems while effectively communicating with impacted stakeholders affected by conflicts, decisions and tradeoffs.    

  • Research and explore internal and industry-wide technologies to propose solutions to ambitious and ambiguous business problems. 

  • Be practiced in incident management. You bring direction and clarity to ensure urgency in mitigation at the time of an incident and comprehensiveness in fast follow-ups with root cause analysis and corrective actions. Like us, you uphold the credo that we should never let a good customer have a bad day on our platform. 

  • Expertise in technical product management, including agile delivery methodology, planning, estimating, staffing, and executing.  

Preferred Qualification:

Job Requirements

  • 12+ years of experience in building large-scale applications with a high-level programming language. 
     

  • 12+ years of experience in software engineering, architecture, and/or product development. 

  • Advanced skills with various data store technologies, caching solutions, and messaging/queuing protocols/systems. 

  • Ability to lead projects and mentor all levels of engineering staff, along with managing relationships with Product, Engineering Operations and non-technical business and support teams. 

  • Experience in architecting and developing fault-tolerant distributed services and backend systems, scaling to support millions of users with high concurrency. 

  • DevOps mindset and expertise with building services on public cloud providers. 

  • Strong understanding of testing best practices and familiarity with at least one testing framework.  

  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to understand and explain technical issues to a non-technical audience. 

  • A strong collaborator, who is excited about teaching and learning from the team. 

  • Passionate about mentoring and developing software engineers as well as personal learning and development.  

  • Strong communication skills with the ability to understand and explain technical issues to a non-technical audience 

  • Bachelor’s and/or Master's degree in Computer science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or related field. 

PayPal 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 position may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit https://www.paypalbenefits.com.

The U.S. national annual pay range for this role is $169,500 to $366,850.

Subsidiary:

Venmo

Travel Percent:

0

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. To learn more about our benefits please visit https://www.paypalbenefits.com.

Who We Are:

Click Here 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.  If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at talentaccommodations@paypal.com.  

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. We are proud to have a diverse workforce reflective of the merchants, consumers, and communities that we serve, and we continue to take tangible actions to cultivate inclusivity and belonging at PayPal.

Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please Join our Talent Community.

We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don’t hesitate to apply.

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