Senior Software Engineer at PayPal
San Jose, CA
$205,482–$300,500from the description
Jul 16, 2026
San Jose, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior Android engineering role focused on designing and building scalable mobile applications, including work with Kotlin, Java, MVVM architecture, Jetpack Compose, and Coroutines. The position also involves integrating hardware peripherals via Bluetooth Low Energy and USB, customizing AOSP for specialized devices such as payment terminals, and building secure transaction-processing systems. Some technical leadership and mentoring of other engineers is expected.
Senior level · 4+ years · Remote · Bachelor's required · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 2,100 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (mobile application developers). range 620–3,150
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The JD states a Bachelor's degree OR 10 years of experience as an alternative path; because the degree is a hard gate absent the experience substitution, the degree requirement is set to Bachelors — candidates who substitute 10 years of experience in lieu of the degree are also eligible per the posting.
The overall years minimum is set to 4, reflecting the stated minimum of 4 years of mobile application development experience (with 10 years accepted in lieu of a degree).
The posting lists financial services/payment processing OR aviation/aerospace industry experience (3 years) as a special skill requirement, but this is a domain-experience gate rather than a named technology or tool, so it is omitted from the skills list per extraction rules.
Technical leadership (code review, mentoring, cross-functional collaboration) is listed as a special skill requirement but names no specific technology; omitted from skills per extraction rules.
Secure transaction processing and high-concurrency systems experience are listed as requirements but describe capabilities/domains rather than named tools; omitted accordingly.
The caller has declared this role fully remote; the posted work location of San Jose, CA and the associated salary range are noted here for reference but no metro has been set.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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