Staff iOS Engineer, Guest & Host

Airbnb; United States; Remote; USD 204,000 - 255,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as a Staff iOS Engineer, focusing on enhancing user experiences for millions of guests and hosts. You will collaborate with design and product leads, drive technical vision, and mentor other engineers. This role offers remote eligibility, fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion while providing competitive compensation and benefits.

Benefits

Bonus

Equity

Employee Travel Credits

Qualifications

• 9+ years of iOS Engineering experience required.
• Experience leading multiple engineering teams and architecting complex user products.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to design and deliver high-quality user experiences.
• Establish technical vision and lead efforts to build scalable solutions.

Skills

iOS Engineering

Collaboration

Communication

UI and UX Development

Tools

Swift

SwiftUI

GraphQL

REST APIs

Job description

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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

As a Staff Design-Centric iOS Engineer on the User, Listings & Platform Client team at Airbnb, you’ll play a critical role in partnering with our design and product leads to drive our explorations into ensuring quality. This domain spans tracking and measuring across Host and Guest signals, surfacing insights to improve Host performance and set Guest expectations, and collaborating with ML engineers to leverage technical capabilities for delightful user experiences. You’ll work with other engineers to define, build, and shape the future of Airbnb’s Users, Listings, and Quality related product flows, such as authentication, user profiles, reviews, performance insights, and supply onboarding and management. The team is highly collaborative with its partners in design, product, data science, legal, and marketing to deliver features and experiences used by millions of people. We work closely with other engineering teams to ensure we build systems that are performant and configurable with architecture that's scalable and robust.

A Typical Day

• Work closely with other senior leaders to define and drive critical product systems that enable the company’s future vision
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners such as Experience Designers, Product Managers, and Engineers to design and deliver high-quality user experiences
• Establish a technical vision and lead efforts to architect, build, and launch reliable, performant, and scalable solutions for Quality-related products.
• Provide critical input in team roadmap and technical direction.
• Influence and collaborate with stakeholders to adopt team goals and roadmaps.
• Identify areas of improvement and drive best practices
• Hands-on development, including building prototypes, leadership presentations, and design and code reviews
• Mentor, guide, and support the career growth of individual contributors
  
  

Your Expertise

• 9+ years of iOS Engineering experience in the tech industry, with ownership responsibility over multiple product surfaces.
• A design-focused iOS engineer, preferably with experience using Swift and SwiftUI. You’re also aware of cross-platform similarities and differences, and can advocate for web and Android concerns
• Possess an eye for visual detail, strong product sense, and a passion for UI and UX product development
• Track record of strong partnership with design and product leadership, through proactive collaboration, building prototypes, and leadership demos.
• Experience leading multiple engineering teams, architecting, building, and releasing complex user products.
• Excellent engineering and coding skills, and experience working with GraphQL and REST APIs. Solid understanding of animation and motion, as well as client networking, performance, caching, client storage solutions, accessibility, and asynchronous programming
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with both technical and non-technical partners. Demonstrated ability to influence non-technical partners such as design, product managers, and the business to develop a unified approach to overall architecture and product/design capabilities. Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with Android, iOS, web, and backend engineers.
• A proven track record of fostering a culture of Diversity and Belonging, within the organization and across the tech community
  
  

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

$204,000—$255,000 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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