Sr. Staff Engineer - iOS

PayPal•San Jose, CA

36d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Company PayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years. Creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure, PayPal empowers consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy. We operate a global, two-sided network at scale that connects hundreds of millions of merchants and consumers. We help merchants and consumers connect, transact, and complete payments, whether they are online or in person. PayPal is more than a connection to third-party payment networks. We provide proprietary payment solutions accepted by merchants that enable the completion of payments on our platform on behalf of our customers. We offer our customers the flexibility to use their accounts to purchase and receive payments for goods and services, as well as the ability to transfer and withdraw funds. We enable consumers to exchange funds more safely with merchants using a variety of funding sources, which may include a bank account, a PayPal or Venmo account balance, PayPal and Venmo branded credit products, a credit card, a debit card, certain cryptocurrencies, or other stored value products such as gift cards, and eligible credit card rewards. Our PayPal, Venmo, and Xoom products also make it safer and simpler for friends and family to transfer funds to each other. We offer merchants an end-to-end payments solution that provides authorization and settlement capabilities, as well as instant access to funds and payouts. We also help merchants connect with their customers, process exchanges and returns, and manage risk. We enable consumers to engage in cross-border shopping and merchants to extend their global reach while reducing the complexity and friction involved in enabling cross-border trade. Our beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day. We live each day guided by our core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness. Together, our values ensure that we work together as one global team with our customers at the center of everything we do – and they push us to ensure we take care of ourselves, each other, and our communities. Job Summary: This job makes technical decisions affecting multiple teams, establishes conventions and processes, handles multi-team initiatives, applies industry practices, communicates technical issues, mentors others, and partners with product management. Job Description: Essential Responsibilities: Makes technical decisions affecting multiple teams, crossing organizational boundaries Establishes conventions & processes to be followed by other employees Actions determine the utilization of company resources (people, money, assets) and affect the effectiveness of the company Handles multiple, multi-team initiatives simultaneously, using judgement to prioritize among more issues than can be handled individually. Understands evolving industry capabilities & practices and can judiciously apply up--to-date information for optimal results Competent at communicating technical issues with non-technical audiences Spreads their behavior, principles, and knowledge as a means of improving technical results of other employees (via many means – modeling behavior, 1:1s, working sessions, quality documentation) Partners with product management, to ideate solutions to business problems & goals Minimum Qualifications: Minimum of 12 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience. Additional Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications: At PayPal, our mission is to democratize financial services to ensure that everyone, regardless of background or economic standing, has access to affordable, convenient, and secure products and services to take control of their financial lives. We’re a purpose-driven company, and our beliefs are the foundation of how we conduct business every day. Our open digital payments platform gives PayPal’s 400+ million active account holders the confidence to connect and transact in new and powerful ways. The PayPal Native Checkout team is passionate about providing maximum value to both consumers and merchants from the moment the checkout experience begins. We’re on a journey to create rich, innovative experiences that people can’t imagine shopping without. We are looking for a Senior Staff iOS Engineer to work with us as we build this next generation of experiences. Your Way to Impact As a Senior Staff iOS Engineer for PayPal Checkout, you will provide technical leadership for your development team and lead in all phases of the SDLC. Your day to day Lead native iOS app development by converting ideas, designs, and requirements into concrete, stable production builds Provide frameworks, interfaces, and services that can be extended and reused for future requirements Enforce clean code and excellent coding practices by conducting thoughtful code reviews Work with product, project, and engineering teams to deliver products on schedule that solve problems and delight users Collaborate with Engineering and QA to resolve bugs Develop and communicates technical processes, standards, and best practices to the team

Requirements

Minimum of 12 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
8+ years of experience building iOS applications using Swift or Objective-C
Expertise in iOS UI design principles, patterns, and best practices.
Understanding of XCode
Experience with animation, and implementing user interface designs
Skilled at writing Unit and Automation tests
Knowledge of iOS application architecture
Knowledge of multi-threaded, asynchronous code
Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect iOS applications to backend services

Nice To Haves

Experience with Android development

Responsibilities

Makes technical decisions affecting multiple teams, crossing organizational boundaries
Establishes conventions & processes to be followed by other employees
Actions determine the utilization of company resources (people, money, assets) and affect the effectiveness of the company
Handles multiple, multi-team initiatives simultaneously, using judgement to prioritize among more issues than can be handled individually.
Understands evolving industry capabilities & practices and can judiciously apply up--to-date information for optimal results
Competent at communicating technical issues with non-technical audiences
Spreads their behavior, principles, and knowledge as a means of improving technical results of other employees (via many means – modeling behavior, 1:1s, working sessions, quality documentation)
Partners with product management, to ideate solutions to business problems & goals
Lead native iOS app development by converting ideas, designs, and requirements into concrete, stable production builds
Provide frameworks, interfaces, and services that can be extended and reused for future requirements
Enforce clean code and excellent coding practices by conducting thoughtful code reviews
Work with product, project, and engineering teams to deliver products on schedule that solve problems and delight users
Collaborate with Engineering and QA to resolve bugs
Develop and communicates technical processes, standards, and best practices to the team