Senior Software Engineer — Payments Platform Lead

Venmo, LLC; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 177,000 - 262,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Competitive compensation

Health, dental, vision

Job summary

Venmo is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join a fast-growing team building scalable backend services for one of the largest payments platforms. You will lead technical initiatives, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product managers to deliver robust, high-performance systems.

Our environment supports a balanced hybrid work model (3 days in office, 2 days remote) and offers competitive compensation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development experience with a Bachelor's degree or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Lead project or system activities and coordinate engineers on the project.
• Refine requirements with product managers and ensure complete, operable solutions.
• Mentor junior engineers and promote engineering rigor and best practices.
• Own performance and availability of services; participate in on-call rotations.

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

Cloud computing

NoSQL

RDBMS

Terraform

AWS

Code review

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Redis

ElastiCache

Hazelcast

SQS

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Pulsar

Terraform

AWS

Job description

Venmo is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join a fast-growing team building scalable backend services for one of the largest payments platforms. You will lead technical initiatives, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product managers to deliver robust, high-performance systems.

Our environment supports a balanced hybrid work model (3 days in office, 2 days remote) and offers competitive compensation.