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From the employer's careers site First seen 28 Oct 2026

Senior Software Engineer

PayPal San Jose, California Hybrid senior full-time

Salary

$196,500 - $291,500 Annually

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Description

Engineering is a craft, and at Venmo we want the internals of our software to be as elegant as the end user experience we are designing. We spend our days scaling our payment backend services and building new features to meet and exceed our user’s needs and wants. We teach and learn from one another and push each other to be at our creative and analytical best.

Essential Responsibilities:

  • Makes technical decisions affecting multiple teams, crossing organizational boundaries
  • Establishes conventions & processes to be followed by other employees
  • Actions determine the utilization of company resources (people, money, assets) and affect the effectiveness of the company
  • Handles multiple, multi-team initiatives simultaneously, using judgement to prioritize 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 behavior, principles, and knowledge as a means of improving technical results of other employees
  • Partners with product management, to ideate solutions to business problems & goals

Minimum Qualifications:

  • 8+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.

Additional Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications :

  • Master's in computer science, or a related field of study, or equivalent experience
  • 10+ years’ experience with Python or equivalent high-level programming language
  • Advanced skills with RDBMS and NoSQL data stores, caching solutions (e.g. Redis, ElastiCache, Hazelcast) and messaging/queuing protocols/systems such as SQS/Kafka/RabbitMQ/Pulsar
  • 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
  • Experience in managing infrastructure as code using Terraform
  • Experience working with fault-tolerant and scalable distributed services and systems.
  • Past experience with Feed and Search

Benefits: At PayPal, we’re committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. And we can’t do this without our most important asset-you. That’s why we offer comprehensive, choice-based programs, to support all aspects of personal wellbeing,physical, emotional, and financial,delivering meaningful value where it matters most. We strive to create a flexible, balanced work culture with a holistic approach to benefits, including generous paid time off, healthcare coverage for you and your family, and resources to create financial security and support your mental health.

Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • Master's in computer science
  • 10+ years experience with Python
  • Expertise with distributed services and backend systems
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