PayPal is seeking a Staff iOS Engineer to drive the architecture and delivery of Pay with Venmo experience on iOS. The successful candidate will have extensive experience building and shipping consumer iOS apps and will 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.
Requirements
- 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
- 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
Benefits
- Generous Paid Time Off
- Healthcare coverage for you and your family
- Resources to create financial security and support your mental health
