Staff Android Engineer

What you need to know about the role : As a Staff Software Engineer, you will act as a subject matter expert. We are looking for technologists with the highest levels of technical talent, programming, and communication skills with a keen desire to deeply understand our product and how to make our systems stronger and more resilient.

Meet our team : Venmo was founded on the principles of breaking down the intimidating barriers around financial transactions to make them intuitive, friendly, and even fun.

And it worked : people love sending money with Venmo, and we are growing rapidly! But we are only just getting started. We want to take that magic of sending money with Venmo and cascade it into every place where people use money.

That means connecting people to their money in the most intuitive and fun way possible, then connecting people with each other.

Users already love Venmo, but we know there are lots of things we have not thought of to make the experience of using Venmo even more delightful and valuable.

All that is going to take a lot of figuring out. Let us figure it out together!At Venmo, we are creating a product that people love.

We strive to create a delightful user experience while connecting the world and empowering people through payments. We are looking for intellectually curious people who want to be inspired and inspire others to change the world.

Job Description

Your way to impact :

Engineering is a craft, and at Venmo we want the internals of our software to be as elegant as the end user experience we are designing.

We spend our days scaling our infrastructure and building new features to meet and exceed our user’s needs and wants. We teach and learn from one another and push each other to be at our creative and analytical best.

Your day to day :

Lead engineering efforts and team level processes by defining outcomes for others, refining ongoing processes, and providing technical advice to senior leaders on systems, solutions, challenges, and strategy.

Evangelist for technical standards, engineering best practices, and quality across larger Venmo team and PayPal, Inc. Determines the technical tasks that other engineers will follow.

Support end-to-end ownership of design, implementation and operational excellence of software components while proactively improving existing structures and processes.

Contribute to the technical engineering roadmap by completing quality and thorough assessments of implementation alternatives and their associated trade-offs and providing recommendations.

Be consistently solutions-focused while contributing to the vision of domain and larger Venmo & PayPal technical engineering roadmap.

Exercises judgement in reconciling diverse and competing priorities to identify optimal solutions to problems.

Leverage strategic thinking and experience to look ahead and anticipate consequences and risks linked to implementation choices;

able to identify patterns to reduce repetition into meaningful general solutions.

A key voice on team-level processes (ex code & design reviews) and oversees projects, ensuring an accurate, complete, timely and operable solution is delivered.

Serves as an expert to resolve technical inquiries of others.

Be able to provide technical leadership for a team with limited guidance from management or senior teammates.

Strong skills interacting and tailoring communication with various technical and non-technical stakeholders, such as product, support, finance operations, compliance and legal.

What you need to bring :

Experience developing and maintaining consumer-facing mobile applications at scale. Strong Kotlin skills & knowledge of multi-threaded, asynchronous code.

Deep understanding and knowledge around consuming GraphQL and REST APIs from Mobile applications.

Passionate about mentoring and developing software engineers.

Strong understanding of testing best practices and familiarity with at least one testing framework for Mobile Development.

Skilled at writing Unit and Automation tests.

Strong knowledge of common design patterns, algorithms, and object-oriented programming with expertise in design patterns such as MVC and MVVM.