Job Summary:As a Sr Software Android Engineer on the Venmo Business Profiles team, you will help build the future of commerce on Venmo. You will design and deliver reliable, intuitive mobile experiences that help businesses create profiles, showcase products and services, connect with customers, and grow through Venmo.
You will collaborate with product managers, designers, backend engineers, and other mobile engineers to solve complex problems across business onboarding, storefronts, search, social proof, payments, and account management. You will shape technical direction, improve Android architecture, strengthen engineering quality, and mentor other engineers while delivering experiences used by millions of people.
This is an opportunity to work on a highly visible product at the intersection of commerce, payments, and social connection. You will help extend Venmo beyond peer to peer payments and make it easier for businesses to participate in the global economy.
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: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.
Work Permit and Relocation Prerequisites: Must already possess valid authorization to work in the country where the position is advertised/located. Relocation support will not be provided for this role.
Subsidiary:Venmo
Travel Percent:0
Primary Location | Pay Range:Austin, Texas: ($130,500.00 - $193,600.00 Annually)
Additional Location(s) | Pay Range:No other locations are assigned to this requisition currently.
Additional compensation for this role may include an annual performance bonus, equity, or other incentive compensation, as applicable.
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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.
