Sr Software Engineer

The Company
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.
We operate a global, two-sided network at scale that connects hundreds of millions of merchants and consumers. We help merchants and consumers connect, transact, and complete payments, whether they are online or in person. PayPal is more than a connection to third-party payment networks. We provide proprietary payment solutions accepted by merchants that enable the completion of payments on our platform on behalf of our customers.
We offer our customers the flexibility to use their accounts to purchase and receive payments for goods and services, as well as the ability to transfer and withdraw funds. We enable consumers to exchange funds more safely with merchants using a variety of funding sources, which may include a bank account, a PayPal or Venmo account balance, PayPal and Venmo branded credit products, a credit card, a debit card, certain cryptocurrencies, or other stored value products such as gift cards, and eligible credit card rewards. Our PayPal, Venmo, and Xoom products also make it safer and simpler for friends and family to transfer funds to each other. We offer merchants an end-to-end payments solution that provides authorization and settlement capabilities, as well as instant access to funds and payouts. We also help merchants connect with their customers, process exchanges and returns, and manage risk. We enable consumers to engage in cross-border shopping and merchants to extend their global reach while reducing the complexity and friction involved in enabling cross-border trade.
Our beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day. We live each day guided by our core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness. Together, our values ensure that we work together as one global team with our customers at the center of everything we do – and they push us to ensure we take care of ourselves, each other, and our communities.
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:
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.
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

Skills
GraphQL, REST API, Android, Kotlin, Account Management, Onboarding