Staff Software Engineer, iOS Platform

Airbnb

16h•$212,000 - $265,000•Remote

About The Position

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 AI automations. 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, and structured concurrency.

Requirements

9+ years of industry experience in software development.
Experience building reliable developer tooling in Go.
Experience working with Ruby and maintaining or improving existing tooling.
Experience leveraging Agentic AI to improve software development workflows and drive large scale migrations.
Experience identifying and addressing inefficiencies in AI agent workflows to improve execution time, token efficiency, reliability, and quality.
Experience working in medium- to large-scale codebases.
iOS development experience in Swift, including building applications, libraries, and frameworks.

Nice To Haves

Experience designing and developing build systems (e.g. Bazel).
Ability to travel to the San Francisco office for about a week each quarter for gatherings.

Responsibilities

Driving projects that improve AI agents’ effectiveness across the software development workflow by providing the right tools to get work done efficiently and reliably, with high-quality results.
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.