PayPal · 1 week ago
Sr Staff Engineer - Android
San Jose, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$170K/yr - $292K/yr
12+ years expPayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years, empowering consumers and businesses to thrive in the global economy. The Senior Staff Engineer - Android will provide technical leadership for the development team, leading native Android app development and ensuring high-quality code practices.
E-Commerce PlatformsFinTechMobile PaymentsTransaction Processing
Responsibilities
Makes technical decisions affecting multiple teams, crossing organizational boundaries
Establishes conventions & processes to be followed by other employees
Actions determine the utilization of company resources (people, money, assets) and affect the effectiveness of the company
Handles multiple, multi-team initiatives simultaneously, using judgement to prioritize among more issues than can be handled individually
Understands evolving industry capabilities & practices and can judiciously apply up--to-date information for optimal results
Competent at communicating technical issues with non-technical audiences
Spreads their behavior, principles, and knowledge as a means of improving technical results of other employees (via many means – modeling behavior, 1:1s, working sessions, quality documentation)
Partners with product management, to ideate solutions to business problems & goals
Lead native Android app development by converting ideas, designs, and requirements into concrete, stable production builds
Provide frameworks, interfaces, and services that can be extended and reused for future requirements
Enforce clean code and excellent coding practices by conducting thoughtful code reviews
Work with product, project, and engineering teams to deliver products on schedule that solve problems and delight users
Collaborate with Engineering and QA to resolve bugs
Develop and communicates technical processes, standards, and best practices to the team
Qualification
Required
Minimum of 12 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
8+ years of experience developing native Android applications in Java and Kotlin
Expertise in Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices
Experience connecting Android applications to RESTful and GraphQL APIs
Experience with animation, and implementing user interface designs
Skilled at writing Unit and Automation tests
Knowledge of design patterns such as MVC and MVVM
Knowledge of multi-threaded, asynchronous code
Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to backend services
Experience with a version control system
Preferred
Experience with iOS development
Benefits
Flexible work environment
Employee shares options
Health and life insurance
Company
PayPal
PayPal is a financial service company that provides online payment solutions to its users worldwide.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$12.17BKey Investors
Kohlberg Kravis RobertsBlueRun Ventures
2025-11-17Post Ipo Debt· $6.95B
2023-06-07Post Ipo Debt· $5B
2015-07-20IPO
Leadership Team
Simon Bladon
PayPal UK CEO
chaloem khompitoon
President & CEO
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