Staff Software Engineer - iOS
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About the Role
PayPal is looking for a Staff iOS Engineer to drive the architecture and delivery of the Pay with Venmo experience on iOS. This hands-on individual contributor role requires expert-level Swift, deep iOS platform knowledge, and at least 5 years of experience.
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Responsibilities
- Drive the design, performance, and reliability of key Pay with Venmo flows on iOS, including merchant checkout via both Braintree and PayPal integrations, app switch experiences, vaulting, and account linking
- Write and review production Swift
- Contribute to and drive portions of large scale refactors as we modernize our stack
- Partner with backend engineers to craft efficient GraphQL and REST contracts that keep the app fast and data savvy
- Prototype new product ideas, run A/B tests, and turn successful spikes into polished experiences
- Help establish and advocate for mobile engineering standards: testing pyramids, CI/CD, accessibility, observability, and on call best practices
- Mentor engineers through pairing, design reviews, and candid feedback
- Tackle ambiguity head on, framing trade offs clearly and charting a path forward when the product brief is still a sketch
Requirements
- 5+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR equivalent combination
- Extensive experience building and shipping consumer iOS apps, with at least 2 years at staff level scope
- Expert level Swift (and comfort reading Objective C) plus deep knowledge of UIKit, SwiftUI, CoreAnimation, and networking
- Deep understanding of iOS platform technologies, trade offs, and emerging design patterns
- Proven history of raising the technical bar: introducing better architecture patterns, automated quality gates, and healthy code review culture
- Strong knowledge of mobile architecture, design patterns, and object oriented programming principles
- Demonstrated ability to architect complex systems and deliver high quality software that meets performance, security, and scalability goals
- Ability to explain complex trade offs in plain language and align cross functional partners around a technical vision
- Comfort influencing without authority, rallying multiple teams to deliver cohesive, delightful user experiences
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience
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Job Summary
- We're looking for a Staff iOS Engineer who will drive the architecture and delivery of Pay with Venmo experience on iOS: the checkout flows merchants integrate with, the app switch experience when users pay, vaulting, account linking, all of it.
- You'll be hands on in the code and in the architecture decisions, working across teams to make sure what we ship is fast, reliable, and easy for merchants to adopt.
- This is a hands on individual contributor role with broad technical influence.
- You'll write and review production code daily, lead cross team initiatives, mentor engineers, and partner closely with product, design, and backend teams to turn ambiguous business problems into polished, high performance mobile experiences.
Essential Responsibilities
- Acts as a project or system leader, coordinating the activities of other engineers on the project or within the system
- Determines the technical tasks that other engineers will follow
- Actions result in the achievement of customer, operational, program or service objectives
- Proactively improves existing structures & processes
- Exercises judgement in reconciling diverse and competing priorities (time, quality, complexity risk) to identify optimal solutions to problems
- Notices patterns and condenses repetition into densely meaningful generalized solutions
- Collaborates with management to set/improve standards for engineering rigor
- Trusted to represent PayPal, Inc to the outside world via interactions with partners, customers, or industry organizations
What You'll Do
- Drive the design, performance, and reliability of key Pay with Venmo flows on iOS, including merchant checkout via both Braintree and PayPal integrations, app switch experiences, vaulting, and account linking.
- Write and review production Swift.
- Contribute to and drive portions of large scale refactors as we modernize our stack
- Partner with backend engineers to craft efficient GraphQL and REST contracts that keep the app fast and data savvy.
- Prototype new product ideas, run A/B tests, and turn successful spikes into polished experiences.
- Help establish and advocate for mobile engineering standards: testing pyramids, CI/CD, accessibility, observability, and on call best practices.
- Mentor engineers through pairing, design reviews, and candid feedback.
- Tackle ambiguity head on, framing trade offs clearly and charting a path forward when the product brief is still a sketch.
Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.
Required
- Extensive experience building and shipping consumer iOS apps, with at least 2 years at staff level scope.
- Expert level Swift (and comfort reading Objective C) plus deep knowledge of UIKit, SwiftUI, CoreAnimation, and networking.
- Deep understanding of iOS platform technologies, trade offs, and emerging design patterns.
- Proven history of raising the technical bar: introducing better architecture patterns, automated quality gates, and healthy code review culture.
- Strong knowledge of mobile architecture, design patterns, and object oriented programming principles, including best practices in coding, testing, and code review.
- Demonstrated ability to architect complex systems and deliver high quality software that meets performance, security, and scalability goals.
- Ability to explain complex trade offs in plain language and align cross functional partners around a technical vision.
- Comfort influencing without authority, rallying multiple teams to deliver cohesive, delightful user experiences.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
Preferred
- Experience with mobile payment technologies and integrations at scale.
- Hands on experience using AI tools and LLMs to accelerate software development workflows, such as code generation, code review, or automated testing.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, feature flag driven rollouts, and App Store release optimization.
- Experience with application monitoring tools (Crashlytics, Fabric) and automated testing frameworks (Appium, Cucumber).
- A portfolio of shipping complex features at scale: offline first flows, concurrency, real time updates, or high fidelity animations.
- Deep understanding of mobile accessibility and internationalization.
Pay Range
- Austin, Texas : ($160,500.00 $238,700.00 Annually)
- Additional compensation may include an annual performance bonus, equity, or other incentive compensation.
Work Model
- For 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.
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