Sr Staff Software Engineer - Backend Python

PayPal•San Jose, CA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

At PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), we believe that every person has the right to participate fully in the global economy. Our mission is to democratize financial services to ensure that everyone, regardless of background or economic standing, has access to affordable, convenient, and secure products and services to take control of their financial lives. Just Venmo me. You may have heard—or used—this phrase before. Venmo has reached verb-status, becoming synonymous with “sending & receiving money.” But Venmo isn't just about transactions. It's about interactions. It's where your money finds meaning as you share, connect, and split purchases with friends. People love sending money and paying with Venmo, and we've come a long way from our humble beginnings as a P2P app. Millions of users have now also made our products such as the Venmo Debit Card, Venmo Checkout, Venmo Credit Card, Crypto on Venmo (and more) a part of their financial lives, and there's so much more we can do as their go-to for fast, safe, and secure payments. Venmo was founded on the principles of breaking down the intimidating barriers around financial transactions to make them intuitive, friendly, and even fun. And it worked: people love sending money with Venmo, and we are growing rapidly! But we are only just getting started. We want to take that magic of sending money with Venmo and cascade it into every place where people use money. That means connecting people to their money in the most intuitive and fun way possible, then connecting people with each other. Users already lovea Venmo, but we know there are lots of things we have not thought of to make the experience of using Venmo even more delightful and valuable. All that is going to take a lot of figuring out. Let us figure it out together! Job Description 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. As a member of Venmo Engineering, you will act as a subject matter expert. 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 stronger and more resilient. Come join our team!

Requirements

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.

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.

Benefits

PayPal is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.
Actual compensation is based on various factors including but not limited to work location, and relevant skills and experience.
The total compensation for this position may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits.
For more information, visit https://www.paypalbenefits.com.
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.
At PayPal, we're committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy.
And we can't do this without our most important asset—you.
That's why we offer benefits to help you thrive in every stage of life.
We champion your financial, physical, and mental health by offering valuable benefits and resources to help you care for the whole you.
We have great benefits including a flexible work environment, employee shares options, health and life insurance and more.
To learn more about our benefits please visit https://www.paypalbenefits.com.