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Creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure, PayPal empowers consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy.\nWe operate a global, two-sided network at scale that connects hundreds of millions of merchants and consumers. We help merchants and consumers connect, transact, and complete payments, whether they are online or in person. PayPal is more than a connection to third-party payment networks. We provide proprietary payment solutions accepted by merchants that enable the completion of payments on our platform on behalf of our customers.\nWe offer our customers the flexibility to use their accounts to purchase and receive payments for goods and services, as well as the ability to transfer and withdraw funds. We enable consumers to exchange funds more safely with merchants using a variety of funding sources, which may include a bank account, a PayPal or Venmo account balance, PayPal and Venmo branded credit products, a credit card, a debit card, certain cryptocurrencies, or other stored value products such as gift cards, and eligible credit card rewards. Our PayPal, Venmo, and Xoom products also make it safer and simpler for friends and family to transfer funds to each other. We offer merchants an end-to-end payments solution that provides authorization and settlement capabilities, as well as instant access to funds and payouts. We also help merchants connect with their customers, process exchanges and returns, and manage risk. We enable consumers to engage in cross-border shopping and merchants to extend their global reach while reducing the complexity and friction involved in enabling cross-border trade.\nOur beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day. We live each day guided by our core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness. Together, our values ensure that we work together as one global team with our customers at the center of everything we do - and they push us to ensure we take care of ourselves, each other, and our communities.\nJob Summary:\nThis job implements tasks within the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), follows internal conventions and procedures, makes technical decisions, collaborates with peers and project leads, and contributes to code and design reviews. Commerce services turn a Venmo account into a place where a business can be found, browsed, and paid. You will build those experiences on Android, inside an app tens of millions of people already open every day.Job Description:\nEssential Responsibilities:\nImplements tasks within the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), receiving structure and oversight from more experienced staff\nFollows well-established internal conventions and standard procedures\nUnderstands internal standards & processes an applies them to make technical decisions\nCollaborates with peers, manager, and project lead to gain understanding of tasks and review solutions\nMay contribute to code & design reviews\nMinimum Qualifications:\n1+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.\nAdditional Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications:\nWhat you will do\nDesign, build, test, and ship high-quality Android experiences for Venmo Commerce.\nDevelop modern, reusable UI using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose within Venmo's mobile architecture.\nOwn features end to end, from technical design and implementation through experimentation, launch, observability, and iteration.\nIntegrate mobile experiences with backend APIs, payments infrastructure, identity, risk, search, recommendations, analytics, and other platform capabilities.\nBuild experiences that are performant, resilient, accessible, secure, and intuitive across a broad range of Android devices.\nInstrument product funnels and experiments, use data to understand customer behavior, and partner with Product and Data Science to improve outcomes.\nCollaborate closely with iOS engineers to deliver coherent cross-platform experiences while applying Android-native patterns and best practices.\nParticipate in architecture and technical design reviews, contribute to code reviews, and raise the engineering quality bar across the team.\nDebug and resolve production issues and contribute to the operational health of commerce experiences.\nWhat you will bring\nExperience building production Android apps in Kotlin.\nJetpack Compose, Coroutines, and Flow used in production, not just in a side project.\nSolid architecture fundamentals: MVVM or MVI, multi module Gradle, dependency injection with Hilt.\nREST or GraphQL integration with Retrofit and OkHttp, plus sensible caching and offline handling.\nTesting as a habit: JUnit, MockK, Compose UI tests.\nClear written communication and a bias toward owning a feature end to end.\nNice to have\nPayments or fintech background, PCI DSS awareness, Android Keystore and biometric auth, feature flags and experimentation, accessibility, marketplace or ecommerce product work.\nSubsidiary:\nVenmoTravel Percent:\n0Visa Sponsorship through PayPal is not available for this position now or any time in the future.-\nThe base pay for this role will depend on where you work and the relevant experience and expertise you bring. The expected range of pay for this role by location is:\nPrimary Location | Pay Range:\nSan Jose, California: ($116,500.00 - $173,250.00 Annually)\nAdditional Location(s) | Pay Range:\nAustin, Texas: ($106,000.00 - $157,300.00 Annually)\n\nAdditional compensation for this role may include an annual performance bonus, equity, or other incentive compensation, as applicable.PayPal does not charge candidates any fees for courses, applications, resume reviews, interviews, background checks, or onboarding. When making an application directly, we will never ask you to share passwords, one-time passcodes (OTP), or verification codes. Any such request is a red flag and likely part of a scam. All communication regarding your application will come from official PayPal email domains. If you suspect fraudulent activity, please report it immediately. To learn more about how to identify and avoid recruitment fraud please visit https://careers.pypl.com/contact-us.\nFor 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.\nOur Benefits:\nAt PayPal, we’re committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. And we can’t do this without our most important asset-you. That’s why we offer comprehensive, choice-based programs, to support all aspects of personal wellbeing-physical, emotional, and financial-delivering meaningful value where it matters most. We strive to create a flexible, balanced work culture with a holistic approach to benefits, including generous paid time off, healthcare coverage for you and your family, and resources to create financial security and support your mental health.\nWho We Are:\nClick Here to learn more about our culture and community.\nCommitment to Diversity and Inclusion\nPayPal provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. In addition, PayPal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at .\nBelonging at PayPal:\nOur employees are central to advancing our mission, and we strive to create an environment where everyone can do their best work with a sense of purpose and belonging. Belonging at PayPal means creating a workplace with a sense of acceptance and security where all employees feel included and valued. We are proud to have a diverse workforce reflective of the merchants, consumers, and communities that we serve, and we continue to take tangible actions to cultivate inclusivity and belonging at PayPal.\nAny general requests for consideration of your skills, please Join our Talent Community.\nWe know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. 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