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Senior Software Engineer, iOS Platform

Airbnb
Remote - US (must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity)Updated 9h ago
Base salary
$196k–$230k
Published base salary range
Location
Remote - US (must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity)
Remote eligibility
Employment
Full-time
Senior
Role family
Engineering
E-commerce
Role skills
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About the job

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About Airbnb

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. The team’s work spans a large surface area, from frameworks and tooling to build systems, CI, Testing, and AI automations. They maintain and evolve the core libraries & frameworks that underlie most of the Airbnb iOS app. The application is nearly 100% written in Swift and adopts the latest Apple technologies including SwiftUI, Swift Macros, Swift Testing, and structured concurrency.

The Difference You Will Make

In this role, you’ll be responsible for 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.

A Typical Day

  • Collaborate with team members & cross functional partners to identify opportunities for improving developers’ productivity.
  • Drive roadmap projects and deliver high-quality results to further the mission.
  • Improve existing frameworks & toolings to deliver on the ambitious vision.

Your Expertise

  • 5-9+ 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 have] 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.

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.

Compensation & Benefits

Pay Range: $196,000—$230,000 USD. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits. Actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Airbnb values diversity & belonging and is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All individuals seeking employment at Airbnb are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, gender, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Reasonable Accommodations

Airbnb is committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities. If you need assistance, or an accommodation, please let your recruiter know once you are contacted about a role. 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.

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