Founding iOS Engineer

Founding iOS Engineer

New York, NY

About the role

We're hiring a Founding iOS Engineer to build the next-generation 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 our client's features 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 our client 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.

This role will be in person at our energetic NYC headquarters (onsite 4 days per week MON-THUR). The base salary range is $190,000 to $210,000 , plus meaningful equity, commensurate with experience.

What you'll do

• 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