Founding iOS Engineer, ResortPass
$190-210k
+ Equity
Day access to luxury hotel amenities
Open for applications
Day access to luxury hotel amenities
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$190-210k
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To create a healthier, happier world by encouraging more daycations.
Role
Who you are
- We encourage candidates to apply even if they don’t match every line below
- 5+ years building production iOS applications with meaningful consumer-facing scale, quality, and complexity
- Strong command of Swift and modern iOS development patterns
- Experience building polished native experiences with strong attention to performance, usability, animation, responsiveness, and edge cases
- You have led or heavily influenced architecture decisions for a substantial iOS codebase
- You care deeply about product quality and can translate complex states and workflows into simple, elegant user experiences
- You know how to move fast without creating long-term fragility
- You’re comfortable working closely with backend engineers on APIs, data contracts, and systems tradeoffs
- You have strong engineering fundamentals: code quality, testing discipline, observability, release reliability, and operational ownership
- You are energized by zero-to-one work and want real ownership, not a narrow lane
- You bring taste and judgment. You know when to insist on quality, when to simplify, and how to make smart tradeoffs in a fast-moving company
- Ideally, you’ve worked on high-quality consumer products at top engineering organizations or elite startups where the bar for craft and execution is exceptionally high
- You’re a good person. Building a startup is hard. Being thoughtful, low-ego, and great to work with should not be. We care deeply about building an ambitious team with a strong culture. This retains and sharpens the values language from your current JD
What the job involves
- We’re hiring a Founding iOS Engineer to build the next-generation ResortPass iOS experience from the ground up
- This is a rare opportunity to define the architecture, engineering standards, user experience, and technical direction of a new native iOS app at a company with real scale, strong momentum, and meaningful product complexity
- You will help shape how millions of users discover, book, and enjoy ResortPass on mobile across search, property details, booking, account, and post-booking experiences
- This is not a role for someone looking to simply implement tickets. We’re looking for an engineer with strong product instincts, excellent engineering judgment, and a high bar for craft, someone who wants to help define what mobile should be at ResortPass for years to come
- You’ll work closely with Product, Design, Backend, Data, and company leadership. You’ll own critical decisions end-to-end, from architecture and developer experience to app performance, reliability, analytics, and release quality. You will also help shape our broader mobile app strategy and, over time, help build the iOS team and engineering culture around you
- Own the iOS app end-to-end across core marketplace flows including search, discovery, property details, booking, account, and post-booking
- Build a high-quality native iOS codebase from the ground up, including architecture, state management, networking, observability, testing strategy, CI/CD, and release processes
- Partner closely with Product and Design to build intuitive, polished, trustworthy mobile experiences with excellent attention to detail
- Help define our mobile app strategy, including where mobile should lead, how it should differentiate from web, and where it can create the most leverage for the business
- Work with backend engineers to shape API contracts that make the app fast, resilient, and easy to evolve
- Drive performance, reliability, and quality across startup time, navigation, rendering, networking, offline handling, error states, and app stability
- Instrument the app thoughtfully so product and engineering teams can measure funnels, understand behavior, and iterate with confidence
- Set the technical bar for iOS engineering through architecture decisions, code reviews, testing discipline, and pragmatic engineering standards
- Help define the long-term mobile platform strategy, including how we scale the codebase, development practices, and team over time
- Play a foundational leadership role in building the iOS function, including helping attract, mentor, and eventually build a strong team around you
- Contribute to product thinking, not just implementation, by bringing strong opinions on UX quality, mobile-first opportunities, and smart tradeoffs
- Tech stack:
- IOS: Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit
- Backend: Ruby on Rails, Node.js
- Data: Postgres, MongoDB
- Infra / Obs: AWS, Datadog
- Testing: XCTest, UI testing, CI/CD pipelines
- What success looks like (6 to 12 months):
- You’ve helped launch a high-quality new iOS app that materially improves the ResortPass customer experience
- You’ve established strong, pragmatic foundations for the iOS codebase that the team can confidently build on
- You’ve shipped multiple meaningful improvements to core mobile journeys with measurable impact on conversion, performance, stability, and user satisfaction
- You’re a trusted partner to Product, Design, and Backend, and a key voice in mobile product direction
- You’ve raised the bar on mobile engineering quality, speed, and product craftsmanship across the company
- You’ve helped define what a great mobile engineering culture looks like at ResortPass and laid the foundation for building the team around you
Our take
Luxury hotels and resorts are often regarded as havens for the rich and famous, being reserved exclusively for guests who are willing to pay top dollar to stay overnight. However, ResortPass is changing this narrative, by building a day-pass marketplace for establishments that want to bring in guests to utilize their amenities throughout the day.
The demand for local experiences has soared in the past few years and ResortPass is taking advantage of these growing requests. ResortPass offers over 2,000 leading hotels and resorts for guests to choose from, including the Ritz Carlton, Four Seasons and Sheraton. While some may argue ResortPass is removing the exclusivity for overnight guests, its business model is to monetize underutilized inventory and work alongside hotels to drive usage of these amenities.
ResortPass offers a distinct way for both tourists and residents to enjoy the facilities of upscale hotels and resorts. With endorsements from well-known personalities such as Jessica Alba and Gwyneth Paltrow, the company is a testament to the increasing favorability of the sharing economy and the demand for exclusive travel encounters.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
27% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Nov 2022
$26m
SERIES B
Aug 2019
$8.7m
SERIES A
Total funding: $37.4m
Company benefits
- ResortPass Credit: We practice what we preach – employees get annual ResortPass credits to enjoy daycations!
- Company Equity: We believe in the work we do and take pride in having a real stake in our shared success.
- Unlimited PTO: We offer a flexible PTO policy, so that you can take time off when you need it and come back rested and recharged.
- Holistic Benefits: We offer benefits to support your whole self—including health insurance, commuter perks, paid parental leave, and more.
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Leadership
Amanda Szabo
(Founder)Previously founded the online booking platform for weddings and events, Weddlock and co-founded the travel booking website TravelShack.
Michael Wolf
(CEO)Previously President and Advisor at Supernatural, COO at Talent Hack and Global Head of Operations at ClassPass.
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