Sr Software Engineer Backend Python

3 - 6 years

6 - 9 Lacs

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Job Summary
As a Senior Software Engineer, you would be a core member of the scrum team and work closely with staff engineers to build high quality product. We are looking for technologists with the highest levels of technical talent, programming, and communication skills with a keen desire to deeply understand our product and how to make our systems more robust and more resilient.
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. We work to push our technology forward with respect to functionality, performance, reliability and scalability.
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Essential Responsibilities
  • Delivers complete solutions spanning all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) (design, implementation, testing, delivery and operations), based on definitions from more senior roles.
  • Advises immediate management on project-level issues
  • Guides junior engineers
  • Operates with little day-to-day supervision, making technical decisions based on knowledge of internal conventions and industry best practices
  • Applies knowledge of technical best practices in making decisions
Expected Qualifications
  • 3+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.
Additional Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications
You will have the opportunity to work on one of the biggest payments platforms that caters to 6 5 million active users and integrates with the worlds biggest businesses . Given all the fun challenges, we are a fast-paced organization going through rapid growth that is solving technical challenges at exponential scale. As an organization, we have a strong culture of committing to goals and delivering on timelines.
  • Key voice in team level processes (e.g., code & design review)
  • Oversees projects, ensuring an accurate , complete, and operable solution is delivered, working with management as needed to fill gaps
  • Collaborates with product managers to understand & refine requirements
  • Serves as an expert to resolve technical inquiries of other employees
  • Follows well established internal conventions and standard procedures
  • Shares software development processes and standards with junior peers
  • Leverages awareness of industry peer solutions to inform and validate technical decisions
  • Anticipates consequences of implementation choices on future development and optimizes accordingly
  • Contributes to code & design
  • Own the performance and availability of the services as well as participate in on call rotations and provide support during incidences.
  • Has an appetite to learn and contribute to complex projects alongside your colleagues.
  • Bachelor s and/or Masters in computer science , or a related field of study, or equivalent experience
  • 5 plus 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
  • Competency in comparing the qualities of multiple implementation choices, including nonfunctional characteristics .
  • Mentor junior engineers
  • Understands runtime environment concepts ( e.g Linux OS, Java Virtual Machine , python runtime ) and behavior and can incorporate to predict performance characteristics of implementation choices.
  • Experience with distributed services and backend systems
  • Experience with building services on public cloud - preferably AWS . Alternatives , GCP, Azure
  • Experience in managing infrastructure as code using Terraform
  • Experience working with fault-tolerant and scalable distributed services and systems.
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PayPal
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For the majority of employees, PayPals balanced hybrid work model offers 3 days in the office for effective in-person collaboration and 2 days at your choice of either the PayPal office or your home workspace, ensuring that you equally have the benefits and conveniences of both locations.
Our Benefits
We have great benefits including a flexible work environment, employee shares options, health and life insurance and more. To learn more about our benefits please visit .
Who We Are
Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
PayPal provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. In addition, PayPal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. .
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