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 Client Products & Emerging Tech team builds impactful app wide product features and frameworks for Airbnb’s Guests and Hosts with new and existing technologies to provide a cohesive user experience. The Staff iOS Engineer joining this team will play a critical role in the end-to-end development of product areas that leverage emerging technologies. They will collaborate closely with Design partners to rapidly ideate, prototype, develop, and ship innovative product experiences.
The team is part of the Product Foundations organization, which is responsible for Airbnb’s product infrastructure including Design System (DS), UI frameworks, media frontend, and data access across different client platforms (Android, iOS, and Web). It plays a central role in Airbnb’s overall client strategy, contributes to libraries such as Lottie and Epoxy, and has more recently enabled Airbnb’s transition to SwiftUI.
Learn more about Mobile Engineering at Airbnb: iOS Motion Engineering at Scale, Lottie 4.0 for iOS, and Page Performance Score on iOS. Also, meet our Client Products & Emerging Tech leader, Cynthia Chu!
The Difference You Will Make:
- Explore, shape, and develop new product experiences alongside cross-functional partners (design and product); from ideation to implementation at scale.
- Establish a technical vision and lead efforts to architect, build, and launch reliable, performant, and scalable solutions to unlock product innovation.
- Develop prototypes to validate ideas while proactively considering long-term implications on technical design and architecture.
- Translate prototypes to high quality, scalable, and maintainable production code through iterative development.
- Partner with peer engineering teams to integrate new features that impact different areas within the product.
- 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.
- Mentor, guide, and support the career growth of individual contributors.
Your Expertise:
- 9+ years of building iOS consumer applications at scale, preferably in Swift.
- Expertise in Swift or Objective-C, UIKit, and SwiftUI, as well as knowledge of UI architecture and UI performance.
- Passionate about new technologies and product development with prior experience shipping delightful user experiences that include fluid interactions, motion, and graphics.
- Strong cross-functional partnership skills and ability to independently lead projects from start to finish.
- Experience leading multiple engineering teams, architecting, building, and releasing complex user products.
- Proactive in upleveling yourself and others around you through curiosity, and fostering a collaborative and inclusive team environment.
- Bachelors, Masters and/or Ph.D preferably in CS, or equivalent industry experience.
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: [email protected]. 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.
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