# Sr Software Engineer

PayPal is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to deliver the Venmo Risk Platform migration to HelixOS. The role builds low-latency, highly available services for real-time fraud and risk decisioning and partners with Risk Strategy, Data Science, and Product to create reliable, auditable platform capabilities. Responsibilities This job delivers complete solutions across the SDLC for the Venmo Risk Platform, powering real-time fraud and risk decisioning for millions of Venmo users Design and build low-latency, highly available services .Partner with Risk Strategy, Data Science, and Product to turn risk and policy into reliable, auditable platform capabilities Delivers complete solutions spanning all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) (design, implementation, testing, delivery and operations), based on definitions from more senior roles Advises immediate management on project-level issues Guides junior engineers Operates with little day-to-day supervision, making technical decisions based on knowledge of internal conventions and industry best practices Applies knowledge of technical best practices in making decisions Skills 3+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor'

- **Id**: 3906384
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/venmo-sr-software-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Jose, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-07T02:26:06Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T02:26:06Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4814
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Hybrid work
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Payment Processing & Gateways

## Company

- **Id**: 1754590
- **Name**: Venmo
- **Domain**: venmo.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/venmo-com>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Salary

- **Min**: 144000
- **Max**: 213000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 213000

## Technologies

- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Claude** — Optional: no
- **Copilot** — Optional: no
- **Cursor** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Jenkins** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **LLM Guardrails** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **MySQL** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **Spring Boot** — Optional: no
- **Spring Framework** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-07T03:20:45Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 35
- **Reasons**: seen:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:32:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 213000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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