This job acts as a project leader, coordinating the activities of other engineers, determining technical tasks, and improving existing structures and processes. It involves making technical decisions, collaborating with management to set standards, and representing the company to external partners.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Acts as a project or system leader, coordinating the activities of other engineers on the project or within the system
- Determines the technical tasks that other engineers will follow
- Actions result in the achievement of customer, operational, program or service objectives
- Proactively improves existing structures & processes
- Exercises judgement in reconciling diverse and competing priorities (time, quality, complexity risk) to identify optimal solutions to problems
- Notices patterns and condenses repetition into densely meaningful generalized solutions
- Collaborates with management to set/improve standards for engineering rigor
- Trusted to represent PayPal, Inc to the outside world via interactions with partners, customers, or industry organizations
Expected Qualifications:
- Minimum of 8 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
As an Android Software Engineer, you will:
- Be a strategic thinker and problem solver.
- Define and execute the mobile technology roadmap.
- Build and lead high-performing mobile engineering teams.
- Drive innovation and experimentation in mobile development
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver world-class mobile experiences.
- Mentor and coach senior engineers and foster a culture of innovation and experimentation.
- Partner effectively with product and engineering leadership to Oversee mobile architecture and design.
What you need to bring:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- 8+ years of hands-on mobile development experience (iOS and/or Android).
- Experience in designing, developing and delivering software and/or platforms (libraries)
- Deep expertise in mobile technologies and architecture.
- Strong object-oriented skills including design, coding and testing patterns.
- Familiarity with database technologies (SQL and NoSQL databases) and ORM frameworks (Hibernate, JPA).
- Ability to design scalable, reliable, and maintainable software systems.
- Proven ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with mobile payment technologies and integrations
- Proficiency in Kotlin, Java, and React Native.
- Familiarity with continuous integration (Jenkins), application monitoring (Crashlytics and fabric.io), mocking tools (Appium and Apiary), build tool development and enhancements, using unit testing and cucumber tests for functional tests
- Familiar and comfortable with Android technologies, the trade offs, and the design patterns emerging.
- Knowledge of mobile performance optimization techniques.
- Experience with machine learning and AI in mobile applications.
- Knowledge of emerging mobile technologies (AR, VR, wearables).
- Strong ability to influence and inspire teams.
The total compensation for this position 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 U.S. national annual pay range for this role is $to $
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