Senior Staff Software Engineer

Meet our team:

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.

Your way to impact:

As a Senior Staff software engineer for Venmo Payments Engineering you will act as a senior engineer and subject matter expert for the Payments Platform Engineering team. You will have the opportunity to work on one of the biggest payments platforms that caters to 60 million active users and had a transaction volume of 37 billion dollars in Q2 2020 alone. And we have a YoY growth rate of 70%. Given all these 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. 

Your day to day:  

• Support end-to-end ownership of design, implementation and operational excellence of software components while proactively improving existing structures and processes. 

• Contribute to the technical engineering roadmap by completing quality and thorough assessments of implementation alternatives and their associated tradeoffs and providing recommendations 

• Provides technical leadership for a small team with minimum guidance from management or senior teammates.  

• Design, estimate and implement new and refactored software services on the platform securely, reliably and at scale. Take ownership of quality of design and implementation of software components.  

• Deliver high quality code on time and follow our SDLC process.  

• Own the performance and availability of the services as well as participate in on call rotations and provide support during incidence

• Have an appetite to learn and contribute to complex projects alongside your colleagues.   

What do you need to bring 

• Bachelor’s and/or Masters in computer science, or a related field of study, or equivalent experience  

• 8+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   

• 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  

• Expert with distributed services and backend systems  

• Expertise with building services on public cloud – AWS, GCP, Azure  

• Experience in managing infrastructure as code using Terraform  

• Experience working with fault-tolerant and scalable distributed services and systems.