Description
As a leader of the fastest growing segment at Venmo, CFS (Consumer Financial Services), you will take primary accountability for the domain's backend platform features, capabilities and quality.
You will make technical decisions affecting multiple teams, establish conventions and processes, handle multi-team initiatives, apply industry best practices, communicate technical issues, mentor others, and partner with product management.
Responsibilities:
- Makes technical decisions affecting multiple teams, crossing organisational boundaries
- Establishes conventions & processes to be followed by other employees
- Actions determine the utilisation of company resources (people, money, assets) and affect the effectiveness of the company
- Handles multiple, multi-team initiatives simultaneously, using judgement to prioritise 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 behaviour, principles, and knowledge as a means of improving technical results of other employees
- Partners with product management, to ideate solutions to business problems & goals
Requirements:
- 8+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience
- Deep expertise in Python and API management , including protocols like OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, FIDO2/WebAuthn
- Proven track record of defining and shipping large-scale distributed systems, with experience leading technical strategy across multiple teams or organisations
- Hands-on comfort with backend systems at scale (Python, Java, Go, or similar) and Cloud (AWS)
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s and/or Master's in computer science, or a related field of study, or equivalent experience
- 12+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time spent on backend platforms, authentication, or security-critical systems at scale
- Experience working with or designing systems that meet regulatory requirements , KYC, AML, GDPR, or similar
- Strong communication skills
Additional Responsibilities:
- Set the technical direction for Venmo's CFS platform, including authentication, authorisation, CFS verification, and fraud risk systems
- Partner with PayPal's platform and security teams to align on shared Venmo standards, reusable infrastructure, and cross-org initiatives
- Lead architectural reviews and define engineering standards for how the CFS team builds, scales, and secures its systems
- Mentor and develop senior engineers
- Collaborate with Product, Legal, Compliance, and Security to translate regulatory and risk requirements into sound technical solutions