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As a Staff software engineer for Venmo Payments Engineering you will act as a senior engineer and subject matter expert for the Payments Platform Engineering team. You will have the opportunity to work on one of the biggest paymentsthat caters to 60 million active users and had a transaction volume of 37 billion dollars in Q2 2020 alone. And we have a YoY growth rate of 70%. Given all these fun challenges, we are a fast-paced organization going through rapid growth that is solving technical challenges at exponential scale. As an organization, we have a strong culture of committing to goals and delivering on timelines.
Your day to day
Exhibits end-to-end ownership of design,implementationand operational excellence of softwarecomponents
Ensuresan accurate,completeand operable solution is delivered, working with management as needed to fill gaps.
Contribute to the technical engineering roadmap by completing quality and thorough assessments of implementation alternatives and their associatedtradeoffsand providing recommendations.
Provides technical leadership for a small team with minimum guidance from management or senior teammates.
Design, estimate and implement new and refactored software services on the platform securely, reliably and at scale. Take ownership of quality of design and implementation of software components.
Deliver high quality code on time and follow our SDLC process.
Own the performance and availability of the services as well asparticipatein on call rotations and provide support during incidences.
Have an appetite to learn and contribute to complex projects alongside your colleagues.
Participate in code reviews, design reviews and is a key voice in team level processes.
Interact with various non-engineering teams such as product, support, finance operations, compliance and legal.
What do you need to
Bachelor’s and/orMasters in computer science, or a related field of study, or equivalent experience
8+years’ experience withPython or equivalent high-level programming language
Advanced skills with RDBMS and NoSQL data stores, caching solutions (e.g.Redis,ElastiCache,Hazelcast) and messaging/queuing protocols/systems such asSQS/Kafka/RabbitMQ/Pulsar
Ability to lead projects and mentor all levels of engineering staff, along with managing relationships with Product, Engineering Operations and non-technical business and supportteams
Expert with distributed services and backend systems
Expertisewith building services on public cloud – AWS, GCP, Azure
Experience in managing infrastructure as code usingTerraform
Experience working with fault-tolerant and scalable distributed services and systems.
PayPal 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. For more information, visitPayPal 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
Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please
PayPal 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. For more information, visitPayPal 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
Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please
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