Android Engineer

What you need to know about the role We are looking for a Staff Android Engineer who has experience creating Mobile SDK's and has familiarity with modern clean Android architectural standards. Must have the necessary scope and experience to work across multiple projects. Looking for a confident independent contributor comfortable pushing and reviewing high complexity PRs. Must enjoy owning features end to end and functioning in a leadership capacity working alongside other Android engineers, backend teams, architects, product, design and your EM to support and mentor junior developers. Meet our team The Android Mobile Team builds user experiences for shopping on Paypal app. Our team is on a mission to provide the best experience of Shopping to all our users. We are looking for a Staff Android Engineer who has experience creating Mobile SDK's and has familiarity with modern clean Android architectural standards. Must have the necessary scope and experience to work across multiple projects. Looking for a confident independent contributor comfortable pushing and reviewing high complexity PRs. Must enjoy owning features end to end and functioning in a leadership capacity working alongside other Android engineers, backend teams, architects, product, design and your EM to support and mentor junior developers.

Your way to impact

You will work on all aspects of the Android code base for the PayPal Deals and Rewards hub. You will provide mentorship for junior engineers and work across the organization with other teams as you collaboratively release new features. You will work with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, Leads on other teams, all to make sure we are delivering high quality work that our customers can use to find the best deals and discounts PayPal can offer.

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.

• Architect and build your projects using Java and Kotlin - Must be fluent in Kotlin

• Write code that is designed to be reusable, flexible, testable and modular and that can be shared amongst other teams.

• Bring product and code improvement ideas to the team.

• Collaborate with architects to create low level design diagrams (contracts, interfaces, api design etc) based on high level design diagrams.

• Work with engineering managers and product to break down high level user requirements into more granular engineering level stories across various engineering experience levels

What do you need to bring

• Minimum 5+ years of experience using common design patterns in the development of mobile applications, such as MVC and MVVM

• 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 creating custom components

• Experience with complex or dynamic layouts in Android

• You enjoy working as part of a diverse team

• You are a strong communicator who is comfortable working in a cross-platform team and able to work with multiple types of partners as well as internal and external stakeholders

• You enjoy leadership and mentoring less experienced engineers