Web Engineer

We all love what we do, and we all love doing it together, because we demand the best people to make the best Venmo. Venmo was founded on the principles of breaking down the foreboding walls of financial transactions to make them intuitive and even fun with friends. And it worked, people love sending money with Venmo.

As a Web Engineer at Venmo you will be responsible for making engineering design decisions and developing features pertaining to the frontend. You will also be expected to be a role model on coding standards, tools, platforms and other best practices for the web team.

• Leading the design and development of frontend features and components
• Scaling the frontend architecture and codebase to support growth while keeping the Venmo websites fast and reliable
• Reducing the level of technical debt of the web codebase
• Help triage bugs, track software defects, and ensure their timely resolution
• Stewarding technical standards and quality
• Interface with product and other functional teams and their leadership

• Bachelors and/or Masters in computer science OR related field of study
• 6+ years experience in software development or a related field
• Experience working on complex frontend applications using technologies such as React, Redux, ES6, Express
• Experience building and deploying complex but well architected, maintainable, and testable application frontends
• Experience with error logging and performance tools such (Sentry, New Relic, etc.)
• Strong communication skills with the ability to understand and explain technical issues to a non-technical audience