Senior Software Engineer

At PayPal (NASDAQ : PYPL), we believe that every person has the right to participate fully in the global economy.Our mission is to democratize financial services to ensure that everyone, regardless of background or economic standing, has access to affordable, convenient, and secure products and services to take control of their financial lives.Job Description Summary: 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 boundsBut 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 togetherEngineering 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 user's needs and wants.We teach and learn from one another, and push each other to be at our creative and analytical bests.We work to push our technology forward with respect to functionality, performance, reliability and scalability.Payments Senior EngineerAs a Senior Software Engineer for Venmo Payments Engineering you will act as a senior developer for the Payments Platform Engineering team.You will have the opportunity to work on one of the biggest payments platforms that caters to 60 million active users and had a transaction volume of 159 billion dollars.And we have a YoY growth rate of 60% which will be keeping us busy for years to come.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 and supporting each other's growth.We are looking for technologists with the highest levels of technical talent, programming skills, attention to performance and scalability, communication skills and a keen desire to deeply understand our product.What You'll DoDesign, 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.Follow engineering best practices as well as propose new ones.Help break down monolithic backend systems down to distributed scalable, resilient services / systems.Help 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 throughout the Payments team.Interface with the product team and other functional teams to deliver new features and services against the product roadmap.What We're Looking ForBachelors and / or Masters in computer science, or a related field of study, or equivalent experience.4+ years experience in all phases of enterprise software design, development and testing.Highly-skilled with one object-oriented / object-function scripting language: Python, Java, C++, Scala, etc.Experience with RDBMS and NoSQL data stores, caching solutions (e.g. Redis, ElastiCache, Hazelcast) and messaging / queuing protocols / systems such as SQS / Kafka / RabbitMQ / Pulsar.Experience with distributed services and backend systems.Experience with building services on the public cloud – AWS, GCP, Azure.Experience working with fault-tolerant and scalable distributed services and systems.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.Preferred SkillsExperience in payments processing or payments domain.Expertise in enterprise system.#J-*****-Ljbffr