PayPal-posted 2 months ago
$169,500 - $366,850/Yr
Full-time • Senior
Hybrid • San Jose, CA
5,001-10,000 employees
Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

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.

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Research and explore internal and industry-wide technologies to propose solutions to ambitious and ambiguous business problems.
  • Be practiced in incident management, bringing 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.
  • Expertise in technical product management, including agile delivery methodology, planning, estimating, staffing, and executing.
  • 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.
  • Bachelor's and/or Master's degree in Computer science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or related field.
  • Flexible work environment
  • Employee shares options
  • Health and life insurance
  • Annual performance bonus
  • Equity compensation
  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits
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