About the Role
At PayPal, 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. Venmo is more than just payments; it’s how people connect, share, and split purchases with friends. Our goal is to break down the barriers around money, making transactions seamless, intuitive, and fun. We aim to bring Venmo’s ease and magic to every place people use money, making managing and connecting finance more delightful.
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.
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.
- Ability to understand and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
Skills
- Strong Kotlin skills & knowledge of multi-threaded, asynchronous code.
- Deep understanding and knowledge around consuming GraphQL and REST APIs from Mobile applications.
- Passion for mentoring and developing software engineers.
- 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.
Location
- San Jose, California
- Austin, Texas
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 8+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree
Salary/Compensations
- San Jose, California: ($143,500.00 - $212,850.00 Annually)
- Austin, Texas: ($130,500.00 - $193,600.00 Annually)
Benefits
- Comprehensive, choice-based programs to support all aspects of personal wellbeing—physical, emotional, and financial.
- Generous paid time off.
- Healthcare coverage for you and your family.
- Resources to create financial security and support your mental health.
About 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.
- We operate a global, two-sided network at scale that connects hundreds of millions of merchants and consumers.
- 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.
- 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.
- PayPal is on a mission to revolutionize commerce globally. We’re driving our company, industry, and society forward with vision and velocity. With our commitment to excellence, innovation, and talent, the possibilities are limitless.
Equal Opportunity
- PayPal provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
- In addition, PayPal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
- Our employees are central to advancing our mission, and we strive to create an environment where everyone can do their best work with a sense of purpose and belonging.
- Belonging at PayPal means creating a workplace with a sense of acceptance and security where all employees feel included and valued.
- We are proud to have a diverse workforce reflective of the merchants, consumers, and communities that we serve, and we continue to take tangible actions to cultivate inclusivity and belonging at PayPal.
