Senior Backend Architect — Distributed Systems Lead

Venmo, LLC; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 197,000 - 292,000; Full time

Job summary

Venmo, a PayPal service, is seeking a Senior Principal Software Engineer to help scale our backend payments infrastructure in San Jose. You will own cross-team technical decisions and drive reliability, performance, and scalability of core services.

You will mentor engineers, partner with product management, and lead multi-team initiatives while applying modern cloud and data-store technologies in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.

Responsibilities

• Makes technical decisions affecting multiple teams, crossing organizational boundaries.
• Establishes conventions & processes to be followed by other employees.
• Actions determine the utilization of company resources and affect the effectiveness of the company.
• Handles multiple, multi-team initiatives simultaneously, using judgement to prioritize among more issues than can be handled individually.
• Understands evolving industry capabilities & practices and can judiciously apply up--to-date information for optimal results.
• Competent at communicating technical issues with non-technical audiences.
• Spreads their behavior, principles, and knowledge as a means of improving technical results of other employees.
• Partners with product management, to ideate solutions to business problems & goals.

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

Leadership

Communication

Cross-team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

AWS

Kafka

SQS

Redis

ElastiCache

Pulsar

Terraform

Job description

Venmo, a PayPal service, is seeking a Senior Principal Software Engineer to help scale our backend payments infrastructure in San Jose. You will own cross-team technical decisions and drive reliability, performance, and scalability of core services.

You will mentor engineers, partner with product management, and lead multi-team initiatives while applying modern cloud and data-store technologies in a fast-paced environment.