Lead iOS Engineer & Mentor — Scalable Swift Apps

Relha LLC; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 161,000 - 239,000; Full time

Job summary

PayPal is seeking an experienced project/engineering lead for its mobile development team in Austin. You will coordinate engineers, define technical tasks, and drive continuous improvements in architecture, standards, and processes.

The role emphasizes collaboration with management and external partners, with a strong focus on delivering scalable consumer-facing mobile apps. Required: 5+ years in mobile development, strong Swift and async programming, and experience with GraphQL/REST APIs.

Qualifications

• 5+ years' experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR any equivalent combination.
• 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.
• Mentoring and developing software engineers.
• Ability to discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong testing practices and familiarity with at least one testing framework for Mobile Development.
• Knowledge of MVC and MVVM design patterns.

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

Mentoring

Communication

MVC/MVVM

Testing

Swift

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

GraphQL

REST APIs

Multithreading

Job description

PayPal is seeking an experienced project/engineering lead for its mobile development team in Austin. You will coordinate engineers, define technical tasks, and drive continuous improvements in architecture, standards, and processes.

The role emphasizes collaboration with management and external partners, with a strong focus on delivering scalable consumer-facing mobile apps. Required: 5+ years in mobile development, strong Swift and async programming, and experience with GraphQL/REST APIs.