At PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), we believe that every person has the right to participate fully in the global economy. Our mission is to revolutionize commerce globally to make moving money, selling and shopping, personalized and secure.Job Description Summary:What you need to know about the role-As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you will act as a subject matter expert. 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 stronger and more resilient.Meet our teamEngineering 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.Job Description:Your way to impactAs aSeniorStaff software engineer for Venmo Payments and Disputes Engineering you will act as a senior engineer and subject matter expert for the Payments Platform Engineering team. You will have the opportunity to work on one of the biggest paymentsplatformthat caters to 60 million active users and had a transaction volume of 37 billion dollars in Q2 2020 alone. And we have a YoY growth rate of 70%. Given all these 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.Your day to dayLead engineering efforts and team level processes by defining outcomes for others, refining ongoing processes, andprovidingtechnical advice to senior leaders on systems, solutions,challengesand 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 tradeoffs and providing recommendationsProvides technical leadership for a small team withminimumguidance from management or senior teammates.?Design, estimate and implement new and refactored software services on the platform securely, reliably and at scale. Take ownershipofquality of design and implementation of softwarecomponents.Deliver high quality code on time and follow our SDLCprocess.Own the performance and availability of the services as well asparticipatein on call rotationsand provide support during incidencesHave an appetite to learn and contribute to complex projects alongside yourcolleagues.Participate in codereviews.Interact with various non-engineering teams such as product, support, finance operations, compliance and legal.?What do you need to bringBachelor's and/orMasters in computer science, or a related field of study, or equivalent experience?8+years' experience withPython 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?Expertisewith building services on public cloud – AWS, GCP, Azure?Experience in managing infrastructure as code using Terraform?Experience working with fault-tolerant and scalable distributed services and systems.**We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Pleasedon'thesitate to apply.Additional Job Description:Subsidiary:VenmoTravel Percent:0Our 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 benefits to help you thrive in every stage of life. We champion your financial, physical, and mental health by offering valuable benefits and resources to help you care for the whole you.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 visithttps://www.paypalbenefits.comWho We Are:Click Here to learn more about our culture and community.PayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years. Creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure, PayPal empowers consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy. For more information, visit?https://www.paypal.com,?https://about.pypl.comand ?https://investor.pypl.com.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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