Staff Software Engineer - Payments Platform Lead (Hybrid)

PayPal, Inc.; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 161,000 - 239,000; Full time

Job summary

PayPal, Inc. in Austin, Texas is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead engineering efforts on the Venmo Payments platform. You will mentor engineers, define outcomes, and own design and operational excellence for scalable services.

You will design and implement new and refactored services, work across product and operations teams, and participate in on-call rotations to ensure availability and performance in a fast-growing payments environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in computer science or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of experience with Python or equivalent language.
• Experience leading projects and mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering efforts and mentor team members across projects.
• Own design, implementation and operational excellence of services.
• Contribute to the technical roadmap and assess trade-offs.
• Ensure scalable, secure, and reliable backend systems.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response.

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

AWS

Terraform

RDBMS

NoSQL

Message queues

Leadership

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s in CS

Tools

SQS

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Pulsar

Job description

PayPal, Inc. in Austin, Texas is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead engineering efforts on the Venmo Payments platform. You will mentor engineers, define outcomes, and own design and operational excellence for scalable services.

You will design and implement new and refactored services, work across product and operations teams, and participate in on-call rotations to ensure availability and performance in a fast-growing payments environment.