iOS Engineering Lead — Mentoring & Scale

PayPal; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 239,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

PayPal is seeking an experienced engineering lead to coordinate and drive mobile development efforts for our Venmo platform in Austin. You will guide a team of engineers, define technical tasks, and ensure delivery of scalable, user-friendly features across iOS apps.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of mobile development, strong Swift and MVVM expertise, and the ability to communicate across technical and non-technical stakeholders. Hybrid work supported in Austin.

Qualifications

• 5+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 5+ years' experience in Mobile Development.
• Experience developing and maintaining consumer-facing mobile applications at scale. Strong Swift skills & knowledge of multi-threaded, asynchronous code.
• Deep understanding and knowledge around consuming GraphQL and REST APIs from Mobile applications.
• Passionate about mentoring and developing software engineers.
• Ability to understand and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong understanding of testing best practices and familiarity with at least one testing framework for Mobile Development. Skilled at writing Unit and Automation tests.
• Strong knowledge of common design patterns, algorithms, and object-oriented programming with expertise in design patterns such as MVC and MVVM.

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

Skills

Mobile Development

Swift

GraphQL APIs

REST APIs

Mentoring engineers

Unit testing

MVVM

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Equivalent education/experience

Job description

PayPal is seeking an experienced engineering lead to coordinate and drive mobile development efforts for our Venmo platform in Austin. You will guide a team of engineers, define technical tasks, and ensure delivery of scalable, user-friendly features across iOS apps.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of mobile development, strong Swift and MVVM expertise, and the ability to communicate across technical and non-technical stakeholders. Hybrid work supported in Austin.