Venmo · 4 hours ago
Sr Staff Software Engineer - Backend (Python)
Austin, TX
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$170K/yr - $292K/yr
8+ years expPayPal is a global leader in commerce, empowering consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets. The Senior Staff Backend Engineer (Python) will shape the architecture and scalability of systems facilitating millions of secure transactions daily, leading large-scale engineering initiatives and mentoring talent to ensure high-quality customer experiences.
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Responsibilities
Makes technical decisions affecting multiple teams, crossing organizational boundaries
Establishes conventions & processes to be followed by other employees
Actions determine the utilization of company resources (people, money, assets) and affect the effectiveness of the company
Handles multiple, multi-team initiatives simultaneously, using judgement to prioritize among more issues than can be handled individually
Understands evolving industry capabilities & practices and can judiciously apply up--to-date information for optimal results
Competent at communicating technical issues with non-technical audiences
Spreads their behavior, principles, and knowledge as a means of improving technical results of other employees (via many means – modeling behavior, 1:1s, working sessions, quality documentation)
Partners with product management, to ideate solutions to business problems & goals
Qualification
Required
8+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience
Makes technical decisions affecting multiple teams, crossing organizational boundaries
Establishes conventions & processes to be followed by other employees
Actions determine the utilization of company resources (people, money, assets) and affect the effectiveness of the company
Handles multiple, multi-team initiatives simultaneously, using judgement to prioritize among more issues than can be handled individually
Understands evolving industry capabilities & practices and can judiciously apply up-to-date information for optimal results
Competent at communicating technical issues with non-technical audiences
Spreads their behavior, principles, and knowledge as a means of improving technical results of other employees (via many means – modeling behavior, 1:1s, working sessions, quality documentation)
Partners with product management, to ideate solutions to business problems & goals
Preferred
8+ years architecting, building, and operating cloud-native, distributed systems at meaningful scale
Track record of raising the engineering bar through design standards, automated quality gates, SLO ownership, and a culture of blameless post-mortems
You prototype rapidly, run A/B tests, and turn promising spikes into reliable production services
Hands-on experience applying machine-learning or large-language-model techniques for personalization, risk, search, or developer productivity; ready to lead our adoption of AI-assisted development and LLM-powered product features
Deep understanding of service design, data modeling, asynchronous messaging, and API craftsmanship, with a privacy-by-design approach
Explain complex trade-offs in plain language and help seasoned engineers grow through candid feedback and sponsorship
Able to align product, design, and compliance partners around a technical vision and rally other teams to deliver on it
Benefits
Flexible work environment
Employee shares options
Health and life insurance
Medical, dental, vision, and other benefits
Company
Venmo
Venmo offers an app that allows users to share and make payments with friends for a variety of services.
201-500 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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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
Sofia Capretta
Partnerships Marketing Manager
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