Staff Software Engineer - Backend Python

• 5+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.

What you need to know about the role-

As a Senior Software Engineer, you would be a core member of the scrum team and work closely with staff engineers to build high quality product.

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 more robust and more resilient.

Meet our team

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 payment backend services 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.

We work to push our technology forward with respect to functionality, performance, reliability and scalability.

Your way to impact

You will have the opportunity to work on one of the biggest payments platforms that caters to 65 million active users and processes transactions worth billions of dollars.

Given all the 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

• Key voice in team level processes (e.g., code & design review)
• Oversees projects, ensuring an accurate, complete, and operable solution is delivered, working with management as needed to fill gaps
• Collaborates with product managers to understand & refine requirements
• Serves as an expert to resolve technical inquiries of other employees
• Follows well established internal conventions and standard procedures
• Shares software development processes and standards with junior peers
• Leverages awareness of industry peer solutions to inform and validate technical decisions
• Anticipates consequences of implementation choices on future development and optimizes accordingly
• Contributes to code & design
• Own the performance and availability of the services as well as participate in on call rotations and provide support during incidences.
• Has an appetite to learn and contribute to complex projects alongside your colleagues.

What do you need to bring-

We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates.

Please don't hesitate to apply.

• Bachelor’s and/or Masters in computer science, or a related field of study, or equivalent experience
• 5 plus years’ experience with Python 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 as SQS/Kafka/RabbitMQ/Pulsar
• Competency in comparing the qualities of multiple implementation choices, including nonfunctional characteristics.
• Mentor junior engineers
• Understands runtime environment concepts (e.g Linux OS, Java Virtual Machine, python runtime) and behavior and can incorporate to predict performance characteristics of implementation choices.
• Experience with distributed services and backend systems
• Experience with building services on public cloud – preferably AWS. Alternatives, GCP, Azure
• Experience in managing infrastructure as code using Terraform
• Experience working with fault-tolerant and scalable distributed services and systems.

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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.

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And we can’t do this without our most important asset-you.

That’s why we offer comprehensive, choice-based programs, to support all aspects of personal wellbeing—physical, emotional, and financial—delivering meaningful value where it matters most.

We strive to create a flexible, balanced work culture with a holistic approach to benefits, including generous paid time off, healthcare coverage for you and your family, and resources to create financial security and support your mental health.

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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 paypalglobaltalentacquisition@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.

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We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates.

Please don’t hesitate to apply.