Sr Staff Software Engineer - iOS

PayPal • Austin, TX

68d • $169,500 - $291,500 • Hybrid

About The Position

We're looking for a Senior Staff iOS Engineer to serve as the hands-on technical lead for all commerce surfaces in the Venmo iOS app. You'll guide the work of multiple feature teams, and shape everything from architecture decisions to App Store ship cadence. This is an individual-contributor role, but your influence spans the entire mobile organization. You will establish conventions and processes, handle multi-team initiatives, mentor others, and partner with product management.

Requirements

• Minimum of 12 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• 10+ years building and shipping consumer iOS apps, with at least 3 years at staff-plus scope
• Expert-level Swift (and comfort reading Objective-C) plus deep knowledge of UIKit, SwiftUI, CoreAnimation, and networking
• Proven history of raising the technical bar introducing better architecture patterns, automated quality gates, and healthy code-review culture
• A portfolio of shipping complex features at scale: offline-first flows, concurrency, real-time updates, or high-fidelity animations
• Curiosity and hands-on experience with AI/ML on device
• 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

Nice To Haves

• Payments, risk, or fintech domain exposure
• Experience optimizing App Store release pipelines and feature-flag-driven rollouts
• Contributions to open-source iOS libraries or conference speaking
• Deep understanding of mobile accessibility and internationalization

Responsibilities

• Makes technical decisions affecting multiple teams, crossing organizational boundaries
• Establishes conventions & processes to be followed by other employees
• Actions determine the utilization of company resources (people, money, assets) and affect the effectiveness of the company
• Handles multiple, multi-team initiatives simultaneously, using judgement to prioritize among more issues than can be handled individually
• Understands evolving industry capabilities & practices and can judiciously apply up-to-date information for optimal results
• Competent at communicating technical issues with non-technical audiences
• Spreads their behavior, principles, and knowledge as a means of improving technical results of other employees
• Partners with product management, to ideate solutions to business problems & goals
• Own the end-to-end design, performance, and reliability of Venmo Commerce on iOS
• Write and review production Swift
• Lead large-scale refactors
• Partner with server engineers to craft efficient GraphQL and REST contracts
• Prototype new commerce ideas and AI-powered features, run A/B tests, and turn successful spikes into polished experiences
• Establish mobile engineering standards: testing pyramids, CI/CD, accessibility, observability, and on-call best practices
• Mentor senior and staff 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

• Flexible work environment
• Employee shares options
• Health and life insurance
• Annual performance bonus
• Equity

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Credit Intermediation and Related Activities
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees