Staff iOS Engineer, Airbnb
Client Products & Emerging Tech
$204-255k
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$204-255k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
Our take
When Airbnb was originally founded, the product helped customers book air mattresses on people's apartment floors. Since then, Airbnb has had over a billion customers hosted through its platform. With more than 4 million registered hosts worldwide, it has grown into a major player in the hospitality sector.
Airbnb has been successful in disrupting the traditional holiday lettings sector. Before it existed accommodation was limited to hotels and bed and breakfasts, but Airbnb has mainstreamed the idea of renting out spare rooms or even entire homes. It has created a new sector of hosts purchasing properties to rent out on the platform and provides a level of flexibility and a range of offerings not previously possible for travelers.
Perhaps a victim of its own success, by 2022 supply of Airbnb-listed properties began to outstrip demand in some markets, as hosts overestimated the appetite for domestic travel. However, the company is still posting strong financials and has unveiled new tools to support its hosts in a tougher rental market. With a healthy bottom line and a huge user base, Airbnb is very likely to overcome the current market turbulence and continue its growth.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
25% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Apr 2020
$500m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2017
$447.8m
SERIES F
Total funding: $3.8bn
Company benefits
- Paid volunteer time
- Health food and snacks
- Generous parental and family leave
- Learning and development
- Annual travel and experiences credit
Company HQ
Showplace Square, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Brian Chesky
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously an Industrial Designer, studying at Rhode Island School of Design.
Nathan Blecharczyk
(Co-Founder & CSO)Studied Computer Science at Harvard, and had around 4 years of professional Software Engineering experience before founding Airbnb, including interning at Microsoft.
Joe Gebbia
(Co-Founder)Also studied Industrial Design at Rhode Island, and previously founded various design-related startups
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