Staff Software Engineer - Backend

Your way to impact  

As a 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 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  

• Exhibits end-to-end ownership of design, implementation and operational excellence of software components  

• Ensures an accurate, complete and operable solution is delivered, working with management as needed to fill gaps. 

• 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, design reviews and is a key voice in team level processes. 

• 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  

• 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. 

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