# Senior Engineering Manager

**Company**: Venmo
**Location**: San Jose, California
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $196,500.00 - $291,500.00 Annually
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We're looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to help shape the future of Commerce at Venmo. Millions of people already use Venmo to pay businesses, and we believe there's a much bigger opportunity ahead.

You’ll own engineering for a big part of that experience. You’ll partner closely with Product and Design to define what we build, set the technical direction with your engineering team, and turn ideas into products that operate at Venmo scale.

**Responsibilities:**

- Lead and develop an engineering team responsible for building and scaling Venmo Commerce products used by millions of customers and businesses

- Partner closely with Product, Design, Analytics, and business teams to identify customer problems, shape the roadmap, and turn ideas into products

- Own the technical direction for your area, working with senior engineers and architects to make decisions that balance speed, simplicity, reliability, and long-term scale

- Build a strong team through hiring, coaching, regular feedback, career development, and thoughtful organizational design

- Give engineers clear ownership and the context and autonomy to make good decisions

- Drive execution across complex initiatives, identify risks early, and help the team navigate dependencies and changing priorities

- Maintain a high bar for engineering quality, reliability, security, and operational excellence

- Make thoughtful trade-offs when there isn’t an obvious answer and communicate those decisions clearly

- Work across Venmo and PayPal when solving problems that span products, platforms, or organizations

- Build a culture where people challenge assumptions, learn quickly, take ownership, and care deeply about the customer experience

- Help the team use AI effectively in how we build software, from development and testing to debugging and operations, while applying good judgment about where AI adds value and where it doesn’t

**Requirements:**

- Significant experience leading software engineering teams and delivering complex products at scale

- A track record of building, developing, and retaining strong engineering teams

- Strong technical judgment. You don’t need to be writing code every day, but you should be able to go deep when needed, ask the right questions, and guide teams through difficult architecture and engineering decisions

- Experience building large-scale distributed systems and familiarity with modern mobile, web, and backend architectures

- Experience taking products or major capabilities from idea through launch, iteration, and scale

- Strong product instincts and a customer-first mindset. You think about the problem we’re solving before the technology we’re using to solve it

- AI fluency and hands-on experience using modern AI tools in software development. You understand their strengths and limitations and can help a team adopt them thoughtfully to improve engineering velocity and quality

- Comfort operating in ambiguity, bringing structure to complex problems, and adjusting as customer and business priorities evolve

- Strong cross-functional leadership skills and the ability to build trust with Product, Design, business, and engineering partners

- Clear communication and the ability to explain complex technical decisions to different audiences

- A consistent track record of delivering on commitments without sacrificing engineering quality or the health of the team

## Skills

### Required
- software engineering
- team management
- technical leadership
- distributed systems
- AI

### Nice to have
- payments
- fintech
- commerce
- marketplaces
- social products

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