Staff Software Engineer — Payments Platform Lead

BAM Ventures; San Jose (CA); Hybride; USD 177 000 - 262 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Equity

Incentive compensation

Healthcare coverage

Résumé du poste

PayPal’s Venmo Payments Engineering is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to serve as a senior expert for one of the world’s largest payments platforms, serving tens of millions of users and processing billions of dollars in transactions. This is a fast‑paced, high‑growth environment that values technical leadership and reliability.

You will lead engineering efforts, define outcomes for teams, mentor peers, and own the design, implementation, and operational excellence of critical services.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering or equivalent.
• Experience leading projects and mentoring engineers.
• Ability to design and implement distributed, fault-tolerant services.

Responsabilités

• Lead engineering efforts and team level processes by defining outcomes for others, refining ongoing processes, and providing technical advice to senior leaders on systems, solutions, challenges, and strategy.
• Support end-to-end ownership of design, implementation and operational excellence of software components while proactively improving existing structures and processes.
• Contribute to the technical engineering roadmap by completing quality and thorough assessments of implementation alternatives and their associated trade-offs and providing recommendations.
• Provide technical leadership for a small team with minimum guidance from management or senior teammates.
• Design, estimate and implement new and refactored software services on the platform securely, reliably and at scale. Take ownership of quality of design and implementation of software components.
• Deliver high quality code on time and follow our SDLC process.
• Own the performance and availability of the services as well as participate in on call rotations and provide support during incidences.
• Have an appetite to learn and contribute to complex projects alongside your colleagues.

Connaissances

Python

Distributed systems

Leadership

Mentorship

SDLC

Formation

Bachelor's/Master's in CS or related

Outils

Redis

Kafka

RabbitMQ

SQS

ElastiCache

Terraform

Description du poste

PayPal’s Venmo Payments Engineering is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to serve as a senior expert for one of the world’s largest payments platforms, serving tens of millions of users and processing billions of dollars in transactions. This is a fast‑paced, high‑growth environment that values technical leadership and reliability.

You will lead engineering efforts, define outcomes for teams, mentor peers, and own the design, implementation, and operational excellence of critical services.