Staff Software Engineer - iOS

PayPal • Austin, TX

67d • Hybrid

About The Position

We're hiring a Staff iOS Engineer to guide the technical direction of commerce experiences in the Venmo iOS app. You'll work closely with product designers, Android and backend engineers, and help several feature squads deliver fast, reliable, and accessible experiences. In this role you'll have broad influence on patterns, tooling, and quality across mobile.

Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years building and shipping consumer iOS apps, with at least 2 years as a technical lead or staff-level IC.
• Expert-level Swift (and comfort reading Objective-C) plus deep knowledge of SwiftUI, UIKit, Combine, async/await, and networking.
• A track record of raising the technical bar: introducing sound architecture patterns, automated tests, and healthy code-review culture.
• Experience shipping complex features at scale offline-first flows, concurrency, real-time updates, or high-fidelity animations.
• Ability to explain complex trade-offs in plain language and align cross-functional partners around a technical vision.
• Inclusive mindset you help teammates grow and design solutions that serve a diverse user base.

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, conference speaking, or technical writing.
• Deep understanding of mobile accessibility and internationalization.

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

Benefits

• Flexible work environment
• Employee shares options
• Health and life insurance
• Resources to help you care for your financial, physical, and mental health

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