PayPal is looking for a Senior Staff iOS Engineer to serve as the hands-on technical lead for all commerce surfaces in the Venmo iOS app, guiding the work of multiple feature teams and shaping architecture decisions to App Store ship cadence.
Requirements
- 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 (CoreML, on-device inference, or integrating LLM-powered APIs for personalization or developer productivity).
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end design, performance, and reliability of Venmo Commerce on iOS.
- Write and review production Swift.
- Lead large-scale refactors (e.g., UIKit ➜ SwiftUI, RxSwift ➜ Combine) as we modernize our stack.
- Partner with server engineers to craft efficient GraphQL and REST contracts that keep the app fast and data-savvy.
- 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.
Other
- Minimum of 12 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
- Ability to communicate 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.
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