Senior iOS Lead — Scale a Global Travel App

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

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Downtown Amsterdam office

MacBook provided

Annual travel perk: free flight/train

Personal development budget

Pension plan

Team lunches and monthly parties

Travel books for adventures

Job summary

Polarsteps, an Amsterdam-based travel app, is seeking a senior iOS leader to guide a high-performing team of engineers. You will mentor, shape architecture, and balance technical excellence with people leadership.

You\u2019ll partner with the iOS tech lead, spend 40% on leadership and 60% coding, and collaborate daily with product managers and designers to scale a platform used by millions of travelers.

Qualifications

• Proven track record leading iOS teams.
• Extensive hands-on Swift/iOS development.
• Experience with large apps on App Store.
• Strong knowledge of UIKit and SwiftUI.
• Experience with concurrency in Swift.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor an iOS team to deliver high-quality apps.
• Collaborate with the iOS Tech Lead to balance technical excellence with people leadership.
• Spend ~40% time on leadership, ~60% as a senior engineer on the app.
• Work daily with product managers, designers, and engineers to ship features.
• Improve maintainability, resiliency, and extensibility; address tech debt as needed.

Skills

Team leadership

iOS development

Swift

UIKit

SwiftUI

Multithreading

CI/CD

AI tools

Code review

Tools

Xcode Instruments

Fastlane

GitHub Actions

GCD

Combine

Swift Concurrency

Xcode

Job description

Polarsteps, an Amsterdam-based travel app, is seeking a senior iOS leader to guide a high-performing team of engineers. You will mentor, shape architecture, and balance technical excellence with people leadership.

You\u2019ll partner with the iOS tech lead, spend 40% on leadership and 60% coding, and collaborate daily with product managers and designers to scale a platform used by millions of travelers.