Senior Staff Software Engineer - Backend

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:

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the design and development of Venmo's Identity and Auth backend platform. You will play a key role in designing, developing, and leading the delivery of the next generation of Venmo's Identity platform, ensuring high performance, scalability, and availability for this critical part of the Venmo experience.

Job Description:

Your way to impact:

In this role, you will have full ownership of the Venmo Identity backend platform, playing a pivotal role in integrating Venmo's identity SOR, AuthN, and AuthZ stance across the Venmo ecosystem. If you’re passionate about backend engineering, enjoy working in a collaborative, agile environment, and are motivated by solving complex technical challenges, this is an opportunity to have a significant impact.

Your day to day:

• Help to design, implement, and maintain platform-level solutions used by other engineering teams and the larger organization 

• Design, build, and operate APIs with a focus on performance and reliability 

• Architect, design, write, review, and test code in a collaborative environment with other software engineers 

• Build modern, resilient, and operationally sane backend systems exemplifying industry standards (HTTP REST, OAuth 2, GraphQL, etc.) 

• Plan for, build, evolve, and scrutinize monitoring and alerting for your production systems 

• Deploy, troubleshoot, and maintain your systems in production and staging environments 

What do you need to bring:

• Proven subject matter expert in AuthN and AuthZ
   

• A DevOps mentality - you design it, you build it, you run it!
   

• 10+ years of experience in distributed systems, microservices architectures, and backend software developme