Sr Software Engineer, Android

PayPal • San Jose, CA

21h • Hybrid

About The Position

PayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years, creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure. PayPal empowers consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy, operating a global, two-sided network connecting hundreds of millions of merchants and consumers. The company provides proprietary payment solutions, enabling customers to use their accounts for purchases, payments, transfers, and withdrawals, utilizing various funding sources including bank accounts, PayPal/Venmo balances, credit products, cards, cryptocurrencies, and gift cards. PayPal, Venmo, and Xoom products facilitate safe and simple fund transfers between friends and family. For merchants, PayPal offers an end-to-end payments solution with authorization, settlement, instant fund access, and tools for customer connection, exchanges, returns, and risk management, also supporting cross-border trade. PayPal's operations are guided by core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness, focusing on customers and community care. At PayPal, the mission is to democratize financial services, providing affordable, convenient, and secure tools for financial control. Venmo, a key product, has evolved beyond a peer-to-peer app to offer Debit Cards, Credit Cards, Checkout, and Crypto, becoming central to users' financial lives. The goal is to make transactions seamless, intuitive, and enjoyable, expanding Venmo's ease and magic to all financial interactions. As a member of Venmo Engineering, the role involves acting as a subject matter expert, seeking technologists with high technical talent, programming, and communication skills, and a desire to understand the product deeply to strengthen and make systems more resilient.

Requirements

• 3+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 8+ years' experience in Mobile Development.
• Experience developing and maintaining consumer-facing mobile applications at scale.
• Strong Kotlin skills & knowledge of multi-threaded, asynchronous code.
• Deep understanding and knowledge around consuming GraphQL and REST APIs from Mobile applications.
• Strong understanding of testing best practices and familiarity with at least one testing framework for Mobile Development.
• Skilled at writing Unit and Automation tests.
• Strong knowledge of common design patterns, algorithms, and object-oriented programming with expertise in design patterns such as MVC and MVVM.

Nice To Haves

• Passionate about mentoring and developing software engineers.
• Ability to understand and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• 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
• Lead engineering efforts and team level processes by defining outcomes for others, refining ongoing processes, and providing technical advice to senior leaders on systems, solutions, challenges and strategy.
• Evangelist for technical standards, engineering best practices, and quality across larger Venmo team and PayPal, Inc.
• Determines the technical tasks that other engineers will follow.
• Support end-to-end ownership of design, implementation and operational excellence of software components while proactively improving existing structures and processes.
• Contribute to the technical engineering roadmap by completing quality and thorough assessments of implementation alternatives and their associated tradeoffs and providing recommendations.
• Be consistently solutions-focused while contributing to the vision of domain and larger Venmo & PayPal technical engineering roadmap.
• Exercises judgement in reconciling diverse and competing priorities to identify optimal solutions to problems.
• Leverage strategic thinking and experience to look ahead and anticipate consequences and risks linked to implementation choices; able to identify patterns to reduce repetition into meaningful general solutions.
• A key voice on team-level processes (ex code & design reviews) and oversees projects, ensuring an accurate, complete, timely and operable solution is delivered.
• Serves as an expert to resolve technical inquiries of others.
• Be able to provide technical leadership for a team with limited guidance from management or senior teammates.
• Strong skills interacting and tailoring communication with various technical and non-technical stakeholders, such as product, support, finance operations, compliance and legal.

Benefits

• comprehensive, choice-based programs, to support all aspects of personal wellbeing—physical, emotional, and financial—delivering meaningful value where it matters most.
• generous paid time off
• healthcare coverage for you and your family
• resources to create financial security
• support your mental health
• annual performance bonus
• equity
• other incentive compensation

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees