Senior iOS Platform Engineer: Swift & AI Tools

Candidate; Northern (KY); Remote; USD 196,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Airbnb’s iOS Platform team is seeking a seasoned engineer to drive AI-enabled tooling for developers. You will shape projects improving AI agent workflows, bolster Swift-based iOS frameworks, and help scale our platform with reliable tooling.

The role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration and delivering high-quality results. The position requires 5–9+ years in software development, with strong Go and Ruby tooling experience, Swift iOS expertise, and familiarity with large-scale codebases.

Qualifications

• 5–9+ years of software development experience.
• Experience building reliable developer tooling in Go.
• Experience working with Ruby and maintaining or improving existing tooling.
• Experience leveraging Agentic AI to improve software development workflows.
• Experience identifying inefficiencies in AI agent workflows to improve execution time, token efficiency, reliability, and quality.
• iOS development experience in Swift, including building applications, libraries, and frameworks.
• Nice to have experience designing and developing build systems (e.g. Bazel).

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with team members and cross-functional partners to identify opportunities to improve developers’ productivity.
• Drive roadmap projects and deliver high-quality results to advance our mission.
• Improve existing frameworks and toolings to support our ambitious vision.

Skills

Go tooling

Ruby tooling

Agentic AI usage

AI workflow optimization

iOS Swift development

Codebase scalability

Tools

Go

Ruby

Bazel

Job description

Airbnb’s iOS Platform team is seeking a seasoned engineer to drive AI-enabled tooling for developers. You will shape projects improving AI agent workflows, bolster Swift-based iOS frameworks, and help scale our platform with reliable tooling.

The role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration and delivering high-quality results. The position requires 5–9+ years in software development, with strong Go and Ruby tooling experience, Swift iOS expertise, and familiarity with large-scale codebases.