PayPal Sr Staff Engineer - Android 

United States, California, San Jose 

433834335

This job makes technical decisions affecting multiple teams, establishes conventions and processes, handles multi-team initiatives, applies industry practices, communicates technical issues, mentors others, and partners with product management.

Essential 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

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum of 12 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

As a Senior Staff Android Engineer for PayPal Checkout, you will provide technical leadership for your development team and lead in all phases of the SDLC.

Your day to day:

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

What do you need to bring:

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

Bonus points if you have:

Experience with iOS development

Travel Percent:

The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit .

The US national annual pay range for this role is $169,500 to $291,500

Our Benefits:

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