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: At PayPal, we continually evolve the business by promoting a culture where solutions from the Engineering team help transform our business through customer-focused incentives, innovative design, and creative excellence. We are a purpose-driven company, and our beliefs are the foundation of our daily business. Our core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness guide us. Job Description: What you need to know about the role: As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be 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 more robust and more resilient. Meet our team: At Venmo, we are creating a product that people love. We strive to create a delightful user experience while connecting the world and empowering people through payments. We seek intellectually curious people who want to be inspired and inspire others to change the world. Your way to impact: 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 infrastructure and building new features to meet and exceed our users' needs and wants. We teach and learn from one another and push each other to be at our creative and analytical best. In your day-to-day role, you will: 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. Evangelist for technical standards, engineering best practices, and quality across the larger Venmo team and PayPal, Inc. Determines the technical tasks that other engineers will follow. Support end-to-end ownership of software components, implementation, and operational excellence while proactively improving existing structures and processes. Please contribute to the technical engineering roadmap by completing quality and thorough assessments of implementation alternatives and their associated tradeoffs and providing recommendations. Be consistently solutions-focused while contributing to the vision of the domain and larger Venmo & PayPal technical engineering roadmap. What Do You Need To Bring : 10 years of experience in backend development Experience in all enterprise software design, development, and testing phases. Highly skilled with one object-oriented/object function scripting language: preferred Python. Experience with RDBMS and NoSQL data stores, caching solutions (e.g., Redis, ElastiCache, Hazelcast), and messaging/queuing protocols/systems such as SQS/Kafka/RabbitMQ/Pulsar Experience with distributed services and backend systems Experience building services on the public cloud – AWS, GCP, Azure. Experience working with fault-tolerant and scalable distributed services and systems. We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can hinder meeting spectacular candidates. Please don't hesitate to apply. Additional Job Description: Subsidiary: Venmo Travel Percent: 0 Our 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 visit https://www.paypalbenefits.com Who 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.com and 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. If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at paypalglobaltalentacquisition@paypal.com. Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please Join Our Talent Community. At PayPal we are reimagining money, democratizing financial services, and giving people more ways to safely connect to their money and to each other. 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