Sr Staff Software Engineer - Android

Description

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

Expected Qualifications :

Preferred Qualification :

What You’ll Do

Own the end‑to‑end design, performance, and reliability of Venmo Commerce on Android.

Write and review production Kotlin (with some Java legacy touchpoints).

Lead large‑scale refactors - think Views ➜ Jetpack Compose, RxJava ➜ Kotlin Coroutines - as we modernize our stack.

Partner with server engineers to craft efficient GraphQL and REST contracts that keep the app fast and data‑light.

Prototype new commerce ideas and AI‑powered features, run A / B tests, and turn successful spikes into polished experiences.

Establish mobile engineering standards : testing pyramids, CI / CD, accessibility, observability, and on‑call best practices.

Mentor senior and staff engineers through pairing, design reviews, and candid feedback.

Tackle ambiguity head‑on, framing trade‑offs clearly and charting a path forward when the product brief is still a sketch.

What We’re Looking For

10+ years building and shipping consumer Android apps, with at least 3 years at staff‑plus scope.

Expert‑level Kotlin (and comfort reading Java) plus deep knowledge of Jetpack Compose, Architecture Components, coroutines, and networking.

Proven history of raising the technical barintroducing better architecture patterns, automated quality gates, and healthy code‑review culture.

A portfolio of shipping complex features at scale : offline‑first flows, concurrency, real‑time updates, or high‑fidelity animations.

Curiosity and hands‑on experience with AI / ML on deviceML Kit, on‑device inference, or integrating LLM‑powered APIs for personalization or developer productivity.

Ability to explain complex trade‑offs in plain language and align cross‑functional partners around a technical vision.

Comfort influencing without authorityrallying multiple teams to deliver cohesive, delightful user experiences.

Nice to Have

Payments, risk, or fintech domain exposure.

Experience optimizing Play Store release pipelines and feature‑flag‑driven rollouts.

Contributions to open‑source Android libraries or conference speaking.

Deep understanding of mobile accessibility and internationalization.

Subsidiary : PayPal

Travel Percent :

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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

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For the majority of employees, PayPal's balanced hybrid work model offers 3 days in the office for effective in-person collaboration and 2 days at your choice of either the PayPal office or your home workspace, ensuring that you equally have the benefits and conveniences of both locations.

Our Benefits :

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We have great benefits including a flexible work environment, employee shares options, health and life insurance and more. To learn more about our benefits please visit .

Who We Are :

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Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

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Belonging at PayPal :

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