Staff Software Engineer, iOS Platform

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 iOS Platform team’s mission is to provide best-in-class experience for iOS development at Airbnb to empower engineers to deliver innovative solutions with high velocity and quality at scale.

We’re ambitious in our vision, and our work spans a large surface area, from frameworks and tooling to build systems, CI, Testing, and Xcode IDE integrations. We maintain and evolve the core libraries & frameworks that underlie most of the Airbnb iOS app and enable product engineers to build great features. Our application is nearly 100% written in Swift and we adopt the latest Apple technologies including SwiftUI, Swift Macros, Swift Testing, structured concurrency, and Combine.

The Difference You Will Make

In this role, you’ll be responsible for driving projects that increase the productivity of the iOS community at Airbnb and unlock new capabilities through a combination of frameworks and toolings.

A Typical Day

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.

Your Expertise

5-9+ years of industry experience building iOS apps.

Experience Building Frameworks, Including Integration With Code Generation

Deep iOS expertise with experience in foundation/platform/infrastructure development

iOS product feature development experience

Experience Working In Medium To Large-scale Codebases.

[Nice to have] 2+ years of experience using SwiftUI

[Nice to have] 2+ years of experience using Apple’s modern concurrency offerings, Combine and Swift Concurrency

[Nice to have] Experience leveraging Agentic AI to drive large scale migrations

Ability to travel to the San Francisco office for about a week each quarter for gatherings.

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:

reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com

. 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

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$255,000 USD