# Staff Software Engineer

**Company**: PayPal
**Location**: Austin, Texas
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $160,500-$235,826 Salary (Austin, Texas) | $176,500-$259,158 Salary (San Jose, California)
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

This job acts as a project leader, coordinating the activities of other engineers, determining technical tasks, and improving existing structures and processes. It involves making technical decisions, collaborating with management to set standards, and representing the company to external partners.

As a Staff software engineer for Venmo Payments Engineering, you will act as a senior engineer and subject matter expert for the Payments Engineering team. You will have the opportunity to work on one of the biggest payments platforms that caters to 65 million active users and processes transactions worth billions of dollars.

**Responsibilities:**

- 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 minimal guidance from management or senior teammates.

- Design, estimate, and implement new and refactored software services on the platform securely, reliably, and at scale.

- Deliver high-quality code on time and follow the SDLC process.

- Own the performance and availability of the services and participate in on-call rotations and provide support during incidents.

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor’s and/or Master’s in computer science, or a related field of study, or equivalent experience.

- 8+ years of experience with Python or equivalent high-level programming language.

- Advanced skills with RDBMS and NoSQL data stores, caching solutions, and messaging/queuing protocols/systems.

- Ability to lead projects and mentor all levels of engineering staff, along with managing relationships with Product, Engineering Operations, and non-technical business and support teams.

- Expert with distributed services and backend systems.

- Expertise with building services on public cloud – preferably AWS or GCP, Azure.

- Experience in managing infrastructure as code using Terraform.

**Benefits:**

- Comprehensive, choice-based programs to support all aspects of personal wellbeing.

- Generous paid time off.

- Healthcare coverage for you and your family.

- Resources to create financial security and support your mental health.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- RDBMS
- NoSQL
- caching solutions
- messaging/queuing protocols/systems
- distributed services
- backend systems
- public cloud
- Terraform

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