Senior iOS Platform Engineer – AI-Driven Tooling (Remote)

airbnb, Inc.; Northern (KY); Remote; USD 196,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Airbnb, Inc. is seeking an experienced software engineer for the iOS Platform team. You will drive projects that improve developers' productivity by delivering tools to accelerate AI-assisted workflows, across Swift, SwiftUI, and related libraries.

The role emphasizes large-scale migrations and building capabilities that power the Airbnb iOS app. You’ll collaborate with engineers and cross-functional partners, own roadmap projects, and enhance frameworks and tooling to meet ambitious goals.

Qualifications

• 5-9+ years of industry experience in software development.
• Experience working with Ruby and maintaining or improving existing tooling.
• Experience leveraging Agentic AI to improve software development workflows and drive large scale migrations.
• Experience identifying and addressing inefficiencies in AI agent workflows to improve execution time, token efficiency, reliability, and quality.
• Experience working in medium- to large‑scale codebases.
• iOS development experience in Swift, including building applications, libraries, and frameworks.
• [Nice to have] Experience designing and developing build systems (e.g. Bazel).
• Ability to travel to the San Francisco office for about a week each quarter for gatherings.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with team members & cross functional partners to identify opportunities for improving our developers’ productivity.
• Drive roadmap projects and deliver high‑quality results to further our mission.
• Improve our existing frameworks & toolings to deliver on our ambitious vision.

Skills

Experience 5-9 yrs

Ruby

Swift

Agentic AI

Codebase size

Bazel

Travel required

Tools

Bazel

Job description

Airbnb, Inc. is seeking an experienced software engineer for the iOS Platform team. You will drive projects that improve developers' productivity by delivering tools to accelerate AI-assisted workflows, across Swift, SwiftUI, and related libraries.

The role emphasizes large-scale migrations and building capabilities that power the Airbnb iOS app. You’ll collaborate with engineers and cross-functional partners, own roadmap projects, and enhance frameworks and tooling to meet ambitious goals.