Senior Staff Backend Architect: Scalable Payments (Hybrid)

Venmo, LLC; Austin (TX); Hybride; USD 197 000 - 292 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Venmo is seeking a senior backend engineer to help scale our payments platform. You will drive architecture decisions, design robust services, and mentor engineers across teams in a hybrid PayPal Venmo environment.

You’ll work with AWS, Terraform, Redis and Kafka, shaping solutions for high-availability, low-latency systems while collaborating with product and operations teams to meet business goals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or higher in computer science or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years’ experience with Python and distributed backend services.
• Experience leading cross-team projects and mentoring engineers.

Responsabilités

• 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 (people, money, assets) 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

Connaissances

Python

Distributed systems

Project leadership

Formation

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's degree in CS or related field

Outils

Redis

ElastiCache

Hazelcast

SQS

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Pulsar

Terraform

AWS

Description du poste

Venmo is seeking a senior backend engineer to help scale our payments platform. You will drive architecture decisions, design robust services, and mentor engineers across teams in a hybrid PayPal Venmo environment.

You’ll work with AWS, Terraform, Redis and Kafka, shaping solutions for high-availability, low-latency systems while collaborating with product and operations teams to meet business goals.