# Backend Python Engineer

**Company**: PayPal
**Location**: San Jose, California
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $176,500.00 - $262,350.00 Annually
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

At PayPal, Staff Software Engineers are hands-on technical leaders who design, build, and scale the systems that power millions of secure global transactions every day.

As a Backend Python Engineer on the Venmo Identity Engineering team, you will architect and deliver high-performance, fault-tolerant identity solutions that directly impact customer trust and security.

**Responsibilities:**

- Acts as a project or system leader, coordinating the activities of other engineers on the project or within the system

- Determines the technical tasks that other engineers will follow

- Actions result in the achievement of customer, operational, program or service objectives

- Proactively improves existing structures & processes

- Exercises judgement in reconciling diverse and competing priorities (time, quality, complexity risk) to identify optimal solutions to problems

- Notices patterns and condenses repetition into densely meaningful generalized solutions

- Collaborates with management to set/improve standards for engineering rigor

- Trusted to represent PayPal, Inc to the outside world via interactions with partners, customers, or industry organizations

**Additional Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications:**

- Lead the design and architecture of scalable, cloud-native backend systems leveraging microservices and serverless frameworks.

- Define and drive the technical roadmap, ensuring engineering initiatives align with strategic business goals.

- Act as a project or system leader, coordinating the activities of other engineers and setting clear technical direction.

- Provide technical leadership and mentorship, fostering a culture of innovation, quality, and continuous improvement.

- Architect and develop large-scale backend systems using Python (Django or Flask) with a focus on performance, reliability, and maintainability.

- Establish and uphold engineering standards, promoting code quality, design excellence, and operational rigor.

- Design and implement fault-tolerant, high-availability systems with strong disaster recovery capabilities.

- Apply advanced security practices, including secure coding, encryption, and access control, to ensure compliance and data protection.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product, Infrastructure, Operations) to deliver impactful business outcomes.

- Continuously improve existing technical frameworks, development processes, and system performance.

- Exercise sound judgment in balancing time, quality, complexity, and risk to deliver optimal solutions.

- Represent PayPal externally in interactions with partners, customers, and industry organizations to promote technical excellence.

**Benefits:**

- Comprehensive, choice-based programs to support all aspects of personal wellbeing,physical, emotional, and financial

- Generous paid time off

- Healthcare coverage for you and your family

- Resources to create financial security and support your mental health

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Django
- Flask
- microservices
- serverless frameworks
- cloud-native systems
- security practices

### Nice to have
- Agile/Scrum methodologies
- large-scale system design
- payments industry
- financial systems
- AWS
- GCP
- Azure
- Infrastructure as Code
- Redis
- event-driven architecture
- messaging/queuing protocols/systems

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