Backend Engineer, Platform as a Service

Job Description

About Us

Venmo was founded on the principles of breaking down the intimidating barriers around financial transactions to make them intuitive, friendly, and even fun. And it worked: people love sending money with Venmo, and we’re growing by leaps and bounds!

But we’re only just getting started. We want to take that magic of sending money with Venmo and cascade it into every place where people use money. That means connecting people to their money in the most intuitive and fun way possible, then connecting people with each other. Users already love Venmo, but we know there are lots of things we haven’t thought of to make the experience of using Venmo even more delightful and valuable. All that’s going to take a lot of figuring out. Let’s figure it out together!

Engineering at Venmo

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 are looking for intellectually curious people who want to be inspired and inspire others to change the world.

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 user’s needs and wants. We teach and learn from one another, and push each other to be at our creative and analytical bests.

Platform Engineer

As an Engineer on the Platform as a Service team at Venmo, you are a thoughtful and collaborative technologist who loves to build maintainable, scalable, and reliable platform services. In this role, you’ll ensure standardization and stability of our platform, empowering Venmo’s product engineering teams to rapidly innovate on amazing new features. As a PaaS Engineer at Venmo, you will be responsible for making engineering design decisions and developing features pertaining to the services that are the backbone of Venmo. You will be expected to lead the conversation on coding standards, frameworks, platforms and other best practices for the rest of Venmo’s engineering team.

What You’ll Do

• Design and implement new services using cutting edge technologies to support Venmo achieving its business goals.
• Collaborate with the architecture team to develop robust, portable, and interoperable solutions to the difficult problems faced by a growing organization.
• Collaborate with the Information Security team to keep Venmo, and its customers, safe from emerging security threats.
• Take an active role in reducing the technical debt in our various codebases.
• Triage, debug, and assure the timely resolution of software defects.

What We’re Looking For

• Bachelor's and/or Masters in computer science OR related field of study
• 5+ years related experience; equivalent combination of education and experience;
• You exhibit excitement and readiness to work in a collaborative environment.
• Excellent skills in programming extensible object-oriented software solutions using Python, Java, C# or the like.
• Functional familiarity with common open source database systems such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB , Cassandra.
• Experience writing effective tests for your software;
• Successful both as an independent contributor and in small teams;
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills;
• Comfortable working in an issue-tracking system (e.g. JIRA)

We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don't hesitate to apply.