Job Summary:At PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), we believe everyone deserves access to the global economy. Our mission is to democratize financial services so anyone, no matter their background, can access affordable, convenient, and secure tools to take control of their financial life. You've likely heard "Just Venmo me"-Venmo is more than just payments. It's how people connect, share, and split purchases with friends. Originally a peer-to-peer app, Venmo now offers millions of users our Debit Card, Credit Card, Checkout, Crypto on Venmo, and more, making us central to their financial lives. Our goal is to break down the barriers around money: making transactions seamless, intuitive, and even fun. People love using Venmo, and we're rapidly growing-but this is only the beginning. We aim to bring Venmo's ease and magic to every place people use money, making managing and connecting finance more delightful. There's more to invent-let's figure it out together!
Job Description:Essential 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
Minimum Qualifications:- 3+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.
Additional Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications:At Venmo, we are creating a product that people love. We strive to create a delightful user experience while connecting the world and empowering people through payments. We are looking for intellectually curious people who want to be inspired and inspire others to change the world. Engineering is a craft, and at Venmo we want the internals of our software to be as elegant as the end user experience we are designing. We spend our days scaling our infrastructure and building new features to meet and exceed our user's needs and wants. We teach and learn from one another and push each other to be at our creative and analytical best.
As a member of Venmo Engineering, you will act as a subject matter expert. We are looking for technologists with the highest levels of technical talent, programming, and communication skills with a keen desire to deeply understand our product and how to make our systems stronger and more resilient.
Come join our team!
What you will do
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.
Job Requirements
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.
Passionate about mentoring and developing software engineers.
Ability to understand and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
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.
Subsidiary:PayPal
Travel Percent:0
The base pay for this role will depend on where you work and the relevant experience and expertise you bring. The expected range of pay for this role by location is:
Primary Location | Pay Range:San Jose, California | ($143,500.00 - $212,850.00 Annually)
Additional Location(s) | Pay Range:Austin, Texas | ($130,500.00 - $193,600.00 Annually)
Additional compensation for this role may include an annual performance bonus, equity, or other incentive compensation, as applicable.
PayPal does not charge candidates any fees for courses, applications, resume reviews, interviews, background checks, or onboarding. When making an application directly, we will never ask you to share passwords, one-time passcodes (OTP), or verification codes. Any such request is a red flag and likely part of a scam. All communication regarding your application will come from official PayPal email domains. If you suspect fraudulent activity, please report it immediately. To learn more about how to identify and avoid recruitment fraud please visit https://careers.pypl.com/contact-us.
For the majority of employees, PayPal's balanced hybrid work model offers 3 days in the office for effective in-person collaboration and 2 days at your choice of either the PayPal office or your home workspace, ensuring that you equally have the benefits and conveniences of both locations.
Our Benefits:At PayPal, we're committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. And we can't do this without our most important asset-you. That's why we offer comprehensive, choice-based programs, to support all aspects of personal wellbeing-physical, emotional, and financial-delivering meaningful value where it matters most. We strive to create a flexible, balanced work culture with a holistic approach to benefits, including generous paid time off, healthcare coverage for you and your family, and resources to create financial security and support your mental health.
