Staff Software Engineer, iOS

PayPal

full-time

Posted on: 9/19/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States

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About the role

Guide the technical direction of commerce experiences in the Venmo iOS app and collaborate with product designers, Android and backend engineers.
Build, test, and ship features for Pay with Venmo and Business Profiles using Swift, SwiftUI, and Combine.
Lead design discussions and code reviews, ensuring durable architectures and clean abstractions.
Modernize codebase by migrating UIKit to SwiftUI, adopting async/await, and improving build times.
Partner with server teams to craft efficient GraphQL and REST APIs.
Champion performance, accessibility, and reliability; measure SLIs.
Mentor other iOS engineers through pairing, design sessions, and feedback.
Prototype new commerce ideas and AI‑powered features and bring successful spikes to production.
Act as a project or system leader, coordinate activities of other engineers, set/improve standards for engineering rigor, and represent PayPal externally.

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.
Experience shipping complex features at scaleoffline‑first flows, concurrency, real‑time updates, or high‑fidelity animations.
Familiarity with mobile AI/MLCore ML, on‑device inferenceor a willingness to learn and lead adoption.
Ability to explain complex trade‑offs in plain language and align cross‑functional partners around a technical vision.
Inclusive mindsetyou help teammates grow and design solutions that serve a diverse user base.
Payments, risk, or fintech domain exposure (Nice to Have).
Experience optimizing App Store release pipelines and feature‑flag‑driven rollouts (Nice to Have).
Contributions to open‑source iOS libraries, conference speaking, or technical writing (Nice to Have).
Deep understanding of mobile accessibility and internationalization (Nice to Have).