Software Engineer, iOS Platform

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 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 Xcode IDE integrations. 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 Swift

UI, Swift Macros, Swift Testing, structured concurrency, and Combine.

In this role, you’ll be responsible for driving projects that increase the productivity of the iOS community at Airbnb and unlock new capabilities through a combination of frameworks and toolings.

• 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.

• 5-9+ years of industry experience building iOS apps.
• Experience building frameworks, including integration with code generation
• Deep iOS expertise with experience in foundation/platform/infrastructure development
• Experience working in medium to large-scale codebases.
• [Nice to have] 2+ years of experience using SwiftUI
• [Nice to have] 2+ years of experience using Apple’s modern concurrency offerings, Combine and Swift Concurrency
• [Nice to have] Experience leveraging Agentic AI to drive large scale migrations
• Ability to travel to the San Francisco office for about a week each quarter for gatherings.

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively‑led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: reason . Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.

We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.

Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.