Senior iOS Engineer, Quality Engineering

Airbnb; United States; Remote; USD 191,000 - 223,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Senior iOS Engineer, where you will play a pivotal role in enhancing the quality of software through innovative test automation frameworks. This position offers the opportunity to work on complex systems and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive engineering decisions. You will thrive in a dynamic environment, ensuring code quality and operational excellence while contributing to the development of tools that scale to meet the needs of both external customers and internal stakeholders. Embrace the challenge and make a significant impact in a company that values creativity and diverse ideas.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of mobile development experience or 2+ years with a PhD.
• Expertise in developing test automation frameworks for iOS applications.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain test tools/environments/frameworks.
• Scale distributed applications in a highly-available environment.

Skills

Swift

XCUITest

Test automation frameworks

Distributed systems

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science/engineering

PhD in related field

Job description

Senior iOS Engineer, Quality Engineering

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Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.

The Community You Will Join

• The Quality Engineering team helps Airbnb build high-quality software efficiently. We enable Airbnb engineers to build highly testable systems. We own and continuously improve Airbnb’s test automation tools, environments and frameworks. We navigate Airbnb’s massive codebase identifying weak spots, and help design and implement testable fault-tolerant systems.
  
  

The Difference You Will Make

• As a global company and product, the tools and frameworks that we build have to scale to the needs of both our external customers but also to our internal stakeholders. Therefore, our mission is to ensure that Airbnb has the tooling and frameworks necessary to assure quality at scale
• As a Senior iOS Engineer, you will help us meet this challenge by helping develop and maintain our test tools/environments/frameworks, writing and testing product/system code, participating in design reviews to architect testable systems, and guiding designs and code to improve its modularity and testability
• You are eager to understand complex systems top to bottom and thrive working across technologies and codebases. In addition, you excel at working through ambiguity, concept validation, and implementing best-in-class solutions
  
  

A Typical Day

• Build, maintain and support our platforms – testing infrastructure, applications, environments and tools using your expertise in distributed systems
• Help build out the team, cultivate innovation and growth by driving cross-collaboration and execution of projects across multiple teams
• Be a player of our high-performance team to ensure code quality, commitment to craft and operational excellence
• Scale distributed applications in a highly-available 24x7 environment, make architectural trade-offs applying design patterns and disciplined execution
• Work with cross-functional teams spanning design, product, data science, and research partners to drive engineering decisions and influence outcomes
  
  

Your Expertise

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent
• 5+ years of mobile development experience, or 2+ years with a PhD in a fast paced, high growth tech environment
• Demonstrable knowledge in Swift and XCUITest
• Demonstrated expertise in developing testability and test automation frameworks and infrastructure for testing iOS mobile applications at a large scale
• Experience developing or testing distributed systems
• Excellent communication skills towards facilitating interactions with cross-functional teams
• Hands-on technical leadership leading projects and defining roadmaps
• Expertise developing solutions to ambiguous problems, and integrations across multiple teams with significant impact
  
  

Your Location:

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: [e-mail]. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.

We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.

How We'll Take Care Of You

Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

Pay Range

$191,000—$223,000 USD

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Research and Engineering

• Industries

  Software Development

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