Venmo · 2 hours ago
Sr Staff Software Engineer - Backend Python
Austin, TX
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$170K/yr - $367K/yr
12+ years expPayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for over 25 years, and they are seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer - Backend Python to enhance their Venmo platform. This role involves leading technical efforts, managing cross-functional teams, and ensuring high-quality software architecture to improve user experience and system resilience.
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Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
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
Preferred
Experience in managing geographically distributed teams preferred
Benefits
Flexible work environment
Employee shares options
Health and life insurance
Company
Venmo
Venmo offers an app that allows users to share and make payments with friends for a variety of services.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$1.3MKey Investors
RRE Ventures
2014-01-01Acquired
2011-08-01Series A
2010-05-07Seed· $1.2M
Leadership Team
Melissa Glassman
Head of Partnership Marketing
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Partnerships Marketing Manager
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