Senior Backend Platform Lead (Multi‑Team, Scale‑Focused)

PayPal Inc.; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 179,000 - 265,000; Full time

Job summary

PayPal's Venmo CFS backend leadership role focuses on owning the domain's platform features, ensuring quality, and guiding multiple teams. You will balance technical decisions, conventions, and cross-functional collaboration with product management to drive scalable, secure backend services.

The role emphasizes architecture, incident readiness, and mentoring senior engineers within a hybrid work model across locations including Austin.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 12+ years of software engineering experience, with backend platforms, authentication, or security-critical systems at scale.
• Deep expertise in Python and API management, including OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, WebAuthn.

Responsibilities

• Makes technical decisions affecting multiple teams, crossing organizational boundaries.
• Establishes conventions & processes to be followed by other employees.
• Accounts for resources and affects organizational effectiveness.
• Handles multi-team initiatives with prioritization across issues.

Skills

Backend leadership

Distributed systems

Python

Communication skills

Cloud AWS

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Terraform

AWS

OAuth 2.0

OIDC

SAML

WebAuthn

Go/Java

Job description

PayPal's Venmo CFS backend leadership role focuses on owning the domain's platform features, ensuring quality, and guiding multiple teams. You will balance technical decisions, conventions, and cross-functional collaboration with product management to drive scalable, secure backend services.

The role emphasizes architecture, incident readiness, and mentoring senior engineers within a hybrid work model across locations including Austin.