Staff Backend Software Engineer (Python)

The Company

PayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years. Creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure, PayPal empowers consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy. 

We operate a global, two-sided network at scale that connects hundreds of millions of merchants and consumers. We help merchants and consumers connect, transact, and complete payments, whether they are online or in person. PayPal is more than a connection to third-party payment networks. We provide proprietary payment solutions accepted by merchants that enable the completion of payments on our platform on behalf of our customers.

We offer our customers the flexibility to use their accounts to purchase and receive payments for goods and services, as well as the ability to transfer and withdraw funds. We enable consumers to exchange funds more safely with merchants using a variety of funding sources, which may include a bank account, a PayPal or Venmo account balance, PayPal and Venmo branded credit products, a credit card, a debit card, certain cryptocurrencies, or other stored value products such as gift cards, and eligible credit card rewards.  Our PayPal, Venmo, and Xoom products also make it safer and simpler for friends and family to transfer funds to each other. We offer merchants an end-to-end payments solution that provides authorization and settlement capabilities, as well as instant access to funds and payouts. We also help merchants connect with their customers, process exchanges and returns, and manage risk. We enable consumers to engage in cross-border shopping and merchants to extend their global reach while reducing the complexity and friction involved in enabling cross-border trade. 

Our beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day.  We live each day guided by our core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness. Together, our values ensure that we work together as one global team with our customers at the center of everything we do – and they push us to ensure we take care of ourselves, each other, and our communities.

Job Description Summary:

As a Venmo Staff Software Engineer you will own one of our critical domains, leading one or two major initiatives related to your domain. You will be part of the team that defines the future of the Venmo Identity's technical development. This individual will be a hands-on contributor that teaches by example unlocks your team's superpowers, and delivers with an ownership and accountability mindset.

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Your way to impact

As a Team Lead software engineer for Venmo Identity Engineering you will act as a senior engineer and subject matter expert for the Venmo Identity Engineering team. You will have the opportunity to own components our Tier 1 identity service, deliver strategic enterprise technology initiatives, and contribute to the continued success of Venmo. We are a fast-paced organization going through rapid growth that is solving technical challenges at significant scale. As an organization, we have a strong culture of committing to goals, sharing knowledge, 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.

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