Android Developer

What you need to know about the role We’re looking for a Senior Android Engineer to help design, develop, and test the PayPal Android Consumer Wallet Application. At PayPal, we work together on small, collaborative teams. We’re passionate about code quality and our people and always are working to find new ways to perfect our processes and product lifecycle.We work closely with our design, content, and product teams to build, test, and iterate on new solutions to customers problems. This role will also be one of leadership and direction. Expect to teach and mentor others about the various things you’ll learn along the way.

Your day-to-day

• Work with product and design teams to develop new ideas and explore new opportunities. Your opinion matters and you’ll have opportunities to have a say in how things are built out
• Be passionate about working with Android and programming in general
• Mentoring less senior engineers on the team in a manner that helps them grow by sharing your experience and wisdom in a way they can understand
• Write code that is designed to be reusable and that can be shared amongst other teams. This includes understanding which pattern is the best for doing so for a given job
• Bring product and code improvement ideas to the team
• Be willing and able to learn new technologies and programming languages when the need to do so arises
• Working with other teams and helping to set expectations and boundaries for your team
• Able to look at a problem and understand how all the pieces should or could go together and use this knowledge to bring the existing project closer to fruition and success

What do you need to bring

• Architect and build your projects using Java and Kotlin for Android
• Experience with localization and internationalization
• Experience working with notifications and background tasks in apps
• Familiarity or at least some experience with animation in Android
• Experience building embeddable software development kits for others to consume, as well as having knowledge about the pros and cons of SDK development
• Experience with making REST calls over the network and ideally experience with GraphQL is a plus
• Experience with JavaScript, either in a browser or server side environment such as NodeJS is a plus
• Care strongly about developing amazing user experiences
• Ability to see, notice and address visual inconsistencies such as unequal or insufficient padding, inconsistent shadows and other UI minutiae that are insignificant alone but add up to a lackluster presentation when combined
• Comfortable working with Android Studio, and other build and coding environments for Android
• Excited about the opportunity to explore new technologies and programming languages when the need arises