Android - Sr/Staff Software Engineer

Our client is an American multinational financial technology company operating an online payments system in the majority of countries that support online money transfers, and serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods such as checks and money orders. The company operates as a payment processor for online vendors, auction sites and many other commercial users, for which it charges a fee.

They are championing possibilities for all by making money fast, easy, and more enjoyable. Their hope is to unlock opportunities for people in their everyday lives and empower the millions of people and businesses around the world who trust, rely, and use their services.

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.

Responsibility

• 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 , 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 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.

Requirement

• At least 5+ years’ 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.