PayPal Senior Software Engineer - Android 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

909089714

This job delivers complete solutions spanning all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). It involves advising management on project-level issues, guiding junior engineers, operating with little supervision, and applying knowledge of technical best practices.

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

Expected Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualification:

As a Native Checkout team member, you will work on bringing delightful PayPal Checkout experiences to the PayPal mobile apps. This includes developing new features with rapid experimentation while ensuring we maintain a high quality of the experiences we ship. You will be responsible for designing and developing these features in collaboration with design, product, and analytics.

Your Day to Day:

• Lead native Android app development by converting ideas, designs, and requirements into concrete, stable production builds

• Design and oversee solutions for specific use cases

• 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

• Influence and mentor peers - both on your team and across PayPal

• Work with product, project, and engineering teams to deliver products on schedule that solve customer problems

• Collaborate with Engineering and QA to resolve bugs

• Develop and communicates technical processes, standards, and best practices to the team

What You Need to Bring:

• 5+ years of experience developing native Android applications in Java and Kotlin

• Solid knowledge of algorithms with good problem solving and troubleshooting skills.

• 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

• Familiarity with AI tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or Cursor

Beneficial Qualifications

• Experience in finance, e-commerce, or logistics.

• Experience with iOS development

Our Benefits:

Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please