Your way to impact
As a Team Lead software engineer for Venmo Payments and Disputes 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 platform 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
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.
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 incidences
Have an appetite to learn and contribute to complex projects alongside your colleagues.
Participate in code reviews.
Interact with various non-engineering teams such as product, support, finance operations, compliance and legal.
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
Current experience leading a team of 5 or more
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.
**We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don't hesitate to apply.
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