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Lead Architect at Venmo in New York, NY
About Us:
Venmo is the first and only social payment app. With Venmo, it’s simple for friends to pay for all of the fun things they do together and stay in touch.
Replacing credit cards and establishing a brand that is loved and trusted is an ambitious goal. We need excellent individuals who want to help us improve people’s daily lives by making exchanging money more convenient and fun. If you’re excited about Venmo and the future of payments, we would love to hear from you.
Replacing credit cards and establishing a brand that is loved and trusted is an ambitious goal. We need excellent individuals who want to help us improve people’s daily lives by making exchanging money more convenient and fun. If you’re excited about Venmo and the future of payments, we would love to hear from you.
Responsibilities:
- You are capable of owning our entire application infrastructure and managing a team that maintains it.
- Experience scaling a web application and confidence that your work will support millions of transactions is required.
Bonus:
- Experience with financial systems.
Requirements:
- Your strive for excellence in everything you do
- Have a strong desire to learn, constantly better yourself and share your knowledge with those around you
- Tell us how you use Venmo or why you think others should
- Provide us with links to relevant blogs/websites, GitHub and Linkedin profiles, etc.
Perks:
- Competitive salary
- Stock options
- Health, dental and vision benefits
- Subsidized gym membership
- Flexible schedule
- $3,000 technology budget for your new MacBook Air, extra monitor, and whatever else you need to be productive
- Virtually unlimited storage on Dropbox for your personal and professional use
- Working with the single best group of people anywhere!

