About Us

Venmo was founded on the principles of breaking down the intimidating barriers around financial transactions to make them intuitive, friendly, and even fun. And it worked: people love sending money with Venmo, and we’re growing by leaps and bounds!

But we’re only just getting started. We want to take that magic of sending money with Venmo and cascade it into every place where people use money. That means connecting people to their money in the most intuitive and fun way possible, then connecting people with each other. Users already love Venmo, but we know there are lots of things we haven’t thought of to make the experience of using Venmo even more delightful and valuable. All that’s going to take a lot of figuring out. Let’s figure it out together!

Engineering at Venmo 

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. 

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. 

Job Description 

As a Sr. Staff software engineer for Venmo Payments Engineering you will act as a Tech lead 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. 

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

Things you'll do as Sr. Staff Software Engineer at Venmo: 

• Lead engineering effort(s) and takes ownership of multiple larger project features, modules, or services. 
• Provides technical leadership for a team with limited 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 for quality of design and implementation of software components 
• Deliver high quality code on time and follow our SDLC process 
• 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. 
• Follow engineering best practices as well as propose new ones 
• Break down monolithic backend systems down to distributed scalable, resilient services/systems. 
• 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 
• Strong, active advocacy for technical standards and quality across PayPal, Inc. 
• Interface with the product and other functional teams and their leadership to deliver new features and services against the product roadmap. 

What we are looking for: 

• Bachelors and/or Masters in computer science, or a related field of study, or equivalent experience 
• 8+ yrs experience Java, 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 architecting and developing fault-tolerant and scalable distributed services and systems  
• Strong application security consciousness  
• Strong communication skills with the ability to understand and explain technical issues to a non-technical audience 
• A strong collaborator, who is excited about teaching and learning from the team 
• Strong communication skills with the ability to understand and explain technical issues to a non-technical audience 
• Being collaborative, willingness to learn and share/teach the team 

Preferred Skills: 

• Experience in payments processing or payments domain 
• Expertise in enterprise systems integration.

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