Senior Staff Software Engineer (Python)

At PayPal, we continually evolve the business by promoting a culture where solutions from the Engineering team help transform our business through customer-focused incentives, innovative design, and creative excellence. We are a purpose-driven company, and our beliefs are the foundation of our daily business. Our core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness guide us.

What you need to know about the role:  
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be 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 more robust and more resilient.  
  
Meet our team:  
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 seek intellectually curious people who want to be inspired and inspire others to change the world.  
  
Your way to impact:  
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 users' needs and wants. We teach and learn from one another and push each other to be at our creative and analytical best.  
  
In your day-to-day role, you will:  

• Lead engineering efforts and team-level processes by defining outcomes for others, refining ongoing processes, and providing technical advice to senior leaders on systems, solutions, challenges, and strategy.

• Evangelist for technical standards, engineering best practices, and quality across the larger Venmo team and PayPal, Inc. Determines the technical tasks that other engineers will follow.

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

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

• Be consistently solutions-focused while contributing to the vision of the domain and larger Venmo & PayPal technical engineering roadmap. 

What Do You Need To Bring :

• 10+ years of experience in backend development

• Experience in all enterprise software design, development, and testing phases.

• Highly skilled with one object-oriented/object function scripting language: preferred Python.

• Experience with RDBMS and NoSQL data stores, caching solutions (e.g., Redis, ElastiCache, Hazelcast), and messaging/queuing protocols/systems such as SQS/Kafka/RabbitMQ/Pulsar

• Experience with distributed services and backend systems

• Experience building services on the public cloud – AWS, GCP, Azure.

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

We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can hinder meeting spectacular candidates. Please don't hesitate to apply.