Backend Engineer 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.

Responsibilities:

You will build the foundation of our service, working on the APIs used by our client apps, as well as the interfaces we use to connect to external services like banks, credit card processors, Facebook, and Foursquare.
You'll work with Python, Tornado, MySQL, MongoDB, Nginx, and any other tools you need to make Venmo secure, reliable, and fast. You'll make sure data is stored safely, and can be efficiently accessed by our client apps.
Opportunity to work on fun projects like risk scoring algorithms, friend suggestions, and aggregating spending data/patterns.

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!

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