Staff Software Engineer - Backend Python
About The Position
This job delivers complete solutions spanning all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). It involves advising management on project-level issues, guiding junior engineers, operating with little supervision, and applying knowledge of technical best practices. 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. 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. 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.
Requirements
- 5+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.
- 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.
- 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.
Nice To Haves
- Mentor junior engineers
Responsibilities
- Acts as a project or system leader, coordinating the activities of other engineers on the project or within the system
- Determines the technical tasks that other engineers will follow
- Actions result in the achievement of customer, operational, program or service objectives
- Proactively improves existing structures & processes
- Exercises judgement in reconciling diverse and competing priorities (time, quality, complexity risk) to identify optimal solutions to problems
- Notices patterns and condenses repetition into densely meaningful generalized solutions
- Collaborates with management to set/improve standards for engineering rigor
- Trusted to represent PayPal, Inc to the outside world via interactions with partners, customers, or industry organizations
- 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.
Benefits
- generous paid time off
- healthcare coverage for you and your family
- resources to create financial security
- support your mental health
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
