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Senior Software Engineer - Python
$130K–$213K
San Jose, California, United States of America +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 12, 2026
- Location
- San Jose, California, United States of America
Austin, Texas, United States of America - Experience
- 3+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR any equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree OR any equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa Sponsorship through PayPal is not available for this position now or any time in the future.
About the job
Develops secure, scalable backend identity services for authentication and authorization in Venmo, spanning the software development lifecycle.
What you'll do
- Designs, implements, tests, delivers, and operates software solutions.
- Advises management on project-level issues and guides junior engineers.
- Makes technical decisions with little day-to-day supervision, applying technical best practices.
What they ask for
- Strong foundation in programming concepts and data structures.
- Backend development experience using Python and frameworks such as Django or Flask.
- Understanding of web services and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) principles.
- Exposure to Git and collaborative development workflows.
Nice to have
- Interest in large-scale distributed systems; exposure to cloud platforms and Infrastructure as Code.
- Experience with databases, Redis, event-driven messaging, CI/CD, testing, or observability.
Pay
San Jose, California: ($143,500.00 - $212,850.00 Annually) USD base salary; Austin, Texas: ($130,500.00 - $193,600.00 Annually) USD base salary
Tools
Python, Django, Flask, Git, AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform
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