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 infrastructure and building new features to meet and exceed our users’ needs and wants. We work with a product team that is data-driven and human-centered in its design principles. We teach and learn from one another, and push each other to be at our creative and analytical bests.  

Common Platform at Venmo 

The common platform team is responsible for the Venmo Identity, Auth and other common platform components that Venmo services use to access user identities, authorize access to financial products and integrate with third-party services.  As a common platform architect, you will have a hands-on role in evolving Venmo’s Identity and Auth services that secure client-to-service and service-to-service integrations and will provide the common entry point to manage Venmo user attributes.  Through your work in common platform you will also have opportunities to improve other areas of our platform and drive engineering best practices. 

What You’ll Do 

• Recognize, validate and evangelize emerging technologies and architectures that align with business objectives. 
• Work with architects and engineering teams to define the roadmap for identity & auth services 
• Collaborate with architects across the organization and other business units across PayPal Inc. to design portable and interoperable solutions to support integration of core platform services. 
• Lead by doing and meaningfully contributing to implementations. 
• Demonstrable ability to learn new technologies and process practices. 

 What We’re Looking For 

• Bachelors and/or Masters in computer science or related field of study 
• 5+ years' experience in software development or a related field 
• 5+ years' experience working hands-on with cloud native applications running at scale 
• Deep hands-on experience with designing and implementing highly scalable platform components to power and support global-scale services 
• Hands-on experience with IaaS and PaaS solutions from AWS (or similar cloud provider): 
  • Compute (Lambda, EC2, ECS, EKS/K8S) 
  • Networking and routing (APIGW, VPC, Direct Connect, VPN) 
  • Infrastructure as code (AWS CLI, AWS CDK, AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet) 
• Hands-on experience with Python/Django and/or Java/Spring 
• Hands-on experience with Relational, NoSQL, and Graph databases at scale 
  • Understand which database engine would support a variety of business use-cases, and explain why 
  • Model data in each database engine to support different workloads Experience mentoring and developing engineers 
• Strong communication skills with the ability to understand and explain technical issues to a non-technical audience 
• Excellent communication and analytical skills 
• Familiarity with applying Machine Learning algorithms and tooling to prepared datasets 
• AWS Solutions Architect preferred 

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