Senior iOS Lead (People) – Hybrid + Equity

Polarsteps; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 100,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working with in-office 2 days a

30 days vacation

Equity options

MacBook provided

Travel costs reimbursed

Job summary

Polarsteps is seeking an experienced iOS leader in Amsterdam to guide a team of engineers while contributing as a senior developer. You will shape architecture, mentor peers, and maintain a highly collaborative culture focused on performance and scale.

You’ll balance leadership with hands-on coding, working across product and design to deliver top-notch iOS experiences for millions of travelers.

Qualifications

• Led teams of 3–4 engineers for 2+ years.
• Strong on people leadership, collaboration and mentoring.
• Extensive iOS development with UIKit/SwiftUI and Swift.
• Experience with multithreading: GCD, Combine, Swift Concurrency.
• Experience with large apps published on the App Store.
• Comfortable debugging and optimizing performance.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of highly qualified iOS engineers.
• Balance technical excellence with people leadership across the iOS team.
• Collaborate with the iOS Tech Lead to align engineering and people goals.
• Work with iOS engineers on all app-related tasks.
• Allocate ~40% time to leading the discipline and ~60% coding.
• Interact daily with product, designers and other engineers.
• Proactively improve maintainability, resiliency and extensibility.

Skills

Swift

iOS Development

Leadership

Mentoring

CI/CD

Performance Tuning

GCD/Concurrency

UIKit

SwiftUI

Xcode Instruments

Collaboration

AI in Development

Tools

Fastlane

GitHub Actions

Xcode Instruments

Job description

Polarsteps is seeking an experienced iOS leader in Amsterdam to guide a team of engineers while contributing as a senior developer. You will shape architecture, mentor peers, and maintain a highly collaborative culture focused on performance and scale.

You’ll balance leadership with hands-on coding, working across product and design to deliver top-notch iOS experiences for millions of travelers.