Software Developer-Backend

What You Need To Know About The Role 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. 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 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 bests. We work to push our technology forward with respect to functionality, performance, reliability and scalability.

Your Way To Impact

As a software engineer in our Consumer Engineering Team you will be responsible for developing all consumer-facing technologies at Venmo. You will be collaborating with functional teams and influencing product direction.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 159 billion dollars in 2020 alone. And we have a YoY growth rate of 60% which will be keeping us busy for years to come.  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 and supporting each other’s growth.  

We are looking for technologists with the highest levels of technical talent, programming skills, attention to performance and scalability, communication skills and a keen desire to deeply understand our product. 

Your Day To Day

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

• Help break down monolithic backend systems down to distributed scalable, resilient services/systems. 

• Help scale our distributed services architecture to support growth while maintaining performance and reliability 

• Collaborate with other engineers in software design and development best practices to significantly drive faster iteration and experimentation 

• Interface with the product team and other functional teams to deliver new features and services against the product roadmap. 

What Do You Need To Bring

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

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

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

• Application security consciousness  

• **We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don't hesitate to apply.