Senior IOS Engineer

Summary

Join Airbnb's Checkout team as a Senior iOS Software Engineer and lead the development of major features within the booking checkout process. You will leverage your expertise in iOS development, UX design, and network-connected applications to build a high-performing and reliable mobile experience. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor junior engineers, and apply critical judgment to data to improve the product and team processes. This US-remote eligible position requires 5+ years of relevant experience and proficiency in Swift, SwiftUI, or UIKit. The role offers a competitive salary, bonus, equity, benefits, and employee travel credits.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant software development industry experience in a fast-paced tech environment
• Strong coding skills, with a solid understanding of data structures, asynchronous programming, and engineering best practices
• Proficient in Swift, SwiftUI or UIKit, and UI architecture
• Experience shipping iOS network-connected apps to the App Store
• Strong product sense and a passion for UI/UX, with a proven ability to translate vision into both prototypes and high-quality solutions
• Demonstrated comfort leading technical initiatives, contributing to roadmaps, and solving ambiguous challenges
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, especially in cross-functional teams and with non-technical stakeholders
• Experience mentoring and growing junior engineers, and setting and driving best practices for iOS client development

Responsibilities

• Lead checkout engineering projects to improve the end user experience, system reliability and performance
• Mentor, guide, advocate and support the career growth of individual contributors — both inside and outside your immediate team
• Write and review technical designs that solve large, open-ended technical problems without clearly-known solutions
• Collaborate with other engineers and cross-functional partners within our team, the larger organization, and our partners in teams such as Payments and Trust to align on long-term technical solutions
• Apply critical judgment to data — be it about performance, business metrics, or team processes — and use it to inform your work to improve the team and the product
• Steer end-to-end product with Product Managers, Design, and UX by engaging early and often to guide teams on the most efficient path towards overall goals

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent eye for visual detail, pragmatic approach and a proactive  cross functional partnership with Design and Product
• Absolute commitment to quality, is highly experimental, and not afraid to try solutions

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits
• Employee Travel Credits