Staff Software Engineer, iOS

Summary

Join Airbnb's Hotels organization, a dynamic and entrepreneurial team, and contribute to creating a seamless hotel booking experience. You will collaborate with product and design partners, lead engineering efforts, and develop innovative solutions. This role requires extensive experience in iOS development, working with APIs, and mentoring junior engineers. The position offers remote work eligibility within specified US states and includes a competitive salary, bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits. Passion for UX and a data-driven approach are essential. The team prioritizes simplicity and creating delightful user experiences for millions.

Requirements

• 9+ Years of industry experience
• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
• Experience shipping one or more Swift or Objective-C iOS apps, ideally currently available in the App Store
• Extensive experience working with GraphQL and REST APIs
• Solid engineering and coding skills. Understanding of basic data structures and asynchronous programming
• Ability to mentor and grow more junior engineers (set and drive best practices for iOS client development)
• Ability to work in areas outside of your usual comfort zone and show motivation for personal growth
• Interest in innovations within the mobile industry

Responsibilities

• Work with product and design partners to explore problem spaces and devise solutions to customer problems by rapidly prototyping
• Take an active role in leading and working with Engineering partners to create technical and execution strategies for new projects and legacy migrations
• Hands on develop, working with teams on edge solutions to problems that come about when developing at scale
• Maintain our rigorous engineering standards and instill consistency across the various codebases and processes you encounter
• Follow data-driven approaches to find inefficiencies in the build/test/deploy pipeline
• Identify areas of improvement and drive mobile best practices
• Mentor and coach other engineers through pull request reviews, design document reviews, or 1-on-1s

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with prototyping
• Demonstrated design and UX sensibilities

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits
• Employee Travel Credits
• Remote work eligibility (US states where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity)