Mobile Engineer III (iOS)

Expedia, Inc.; London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in travel technology seeks a Mobile Engineer III (iOS) to join their innovative team. In this role, you will develop high-performance iOS applications and collaborate closely with engineers across the globe. You will innovate and refine applications that enhance users' travel experiences while adhering to best practices in software development. Candidates should possess a strong background in Swift and Objective-C, alongside a passion for solving complex problems in a dynamic environment.

Benefits

Flexible work model

Generous time-off

Parental leave

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in an iOS environment.
• Experience with Swift and Objective-C.
• Understanding of client/server architectures.

Responsibilities

• Develop and test standard software applications in Swift UI.
• Build a shared component library framework for different brands.
• Participate in code reviews to improve code quality.

Skills

iOS development

Swift

Objective-C

API services

Agile development

Git

CI/CD

Mobile development best practices

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science

Job description

Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.

Why Join Us?

To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.

We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a flexible work model (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.

Mobile Engineer III (iOS)

Are you excited to build new technologies that will be instrumental in bringing Expedia Group's evolving brand to life by delivering Native App experiences for millions of users? Come build the future of travel with us! Software Engineers at Expedia Group develop solutions and products that touch millions of people every day around the globe. Our engineers seek some of the most sophisticated problems in the world of travel across various brands - Expedia, Orbitz, Car Rentals, Vrbo,Hotels.com, Travelocity, eBookers and others. We are looking for strong technical talent as well as a keen desire to deeply understand our products and services to push our technology forward with respect to functionality, performance, reliability, and scalability.

Our team in Lodging Search Experience domain is looking for curious, empathetic, and creative problem solvers with the growth mindset. We are a team of travel-loving makers, building a cutting-edge lodging shopping platform using open-source technologies. You will be responsible for building a best-in-class shopping experience for our lodging travellers and partners.

As a member of the team, you'll estimate engineering efforts, design your changes, implement and test your changes, push to live, and triage production issues. You need to be collaborative and curious as we build new experiences and improve existing frameworks powering the world's largest travel mobile apps at a scale only a few companies can match.

What you will do:

• Build and evolve the next generation Expedia Group (EG) shared component library framework to be adapted by different EG brands using the latest technologies such as Swift
• Collaborate with multiple engineering teams to enable them to co-develop, re-use and solve problems.
• Develop and test standard software applications in Swift UI and related programs and procedures to ensure they meet design requirements.
• Participate in code reviews to assess overcall code quality and flexibility
• Apply software design principles, data structures and/or design patterns and computer science fundamentals to write code that is clean, maintainable, optimised, and modular with good naming conventions.
• Drive continuous improvement and continuous delivery in our software development process within an agile development team.
• Write automation tests, unit tests and acceptance tests as appropriate to support our continuous integration pipelines.
• Collaborate with team members to co-develop and resolve problems
• Be involved in product feature development, and will be working in close partnership with our teams across all our offices around the world
• You will coordinate bringing together different stakeholders with varied perspectives to develop solutions to issues and contributes own suggestions.
• You will spot areas of inefficiency in code or systems operation and offer suggestions for improvements.
• Maintain a high awareness of industry issues and trends, particularly in regard to accessibility, usability, and front-end technologies.

Who you are:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience
• 5+ years of experience working in an iOS environment
• Passionate about building and refining high-performance iOS apps.
• Experience developing features in Swift and Objective-C (preferred)
• Knowledge of API service connection paradigms
• Understanding of client/server architectures - Understanding of mobile development standard methodologies
• A dedicated iOS engineer with experience seeking a variety of outstanding challenges
• Excited to pick up, learn and run with new technologies and frameworks such as Swift UI and GraphQL - love all aspects of application development, from brainstorming and design to implementation and launch
• Experience in testing and monitoring your own code.
• Demonstrates familiarity with associated technologies within their specialisation as part of the wider SDLC ecosystem. Example - CI/CD, Git, Github Actions
• Previous experience on large codebases.
• Experience in Agile development.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information clearly and concisely
• A bias towards action - You believe that speed and quality aren’t mutually exclusive. You’ve shown good judgment about getting features to customers while still making sure that products are built in a sustainable, adaptive and responsible way.
• Familiarity of collaborative interface design tools (eg. Figma) is a plus

Accommodation requests

If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, or other physical or mental health conditions, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the Accommodation Request.

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