Airbnb Senior iOS Engineer DLS Foundation 

United States 

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The Difference You Will Make:

As a Senior iOS Engineer on the DLS Foundation team, you'll have the opportunity to work with world-class engineers on expanding the DLS Building Blocks, building out new UI frameworks and utilities used by other client-side engineers, and supporting new product launches by embedding yourself into product initiatives. You will be supported by a team of design and engineering managers, designers, and peers. The scope of this role is vast and limited only by your ambition.

You will be working to improve the overall process by which client-side engineers at the company translate designs into code. In this role you will work closely with other engineers on Web, Android and iOS in building out systems and solutions that facilitate the overall engineering process of new features. You will also work closely with designers on expanding and reinforcing processes of feature development from their perspective.

A Typical Day:

• Enable iOS engineers at Airbnb to build the best user experiences with DLS (Building Blocks and new UI capabilities) and UI Frameworks (E.g. SwiftUI, UIKit)
• Evolve DLS with flexibility, practicality and long-term scalability in mind that fits Airbnb’s business needs
• Drive investments into new technical capabilities that push the envelope and unlock new product innovation
• Identify Design and Engineer product development pain point and constantly improve the development efficiency.
• Work alongside Android and Frontend Web counterparts to deliver on shared objectives.
• Support product engineers through community events, training materials, workshops, codelabs, etc.
• Contribute to the team’s technical strategy alongside leads to evolve technology choices that scale with Product and Design ambitions.
• Level up technical leadership within the team through effective partnership with peer ICs and mentoring.

Your Expertise:

• 5+ years of industry experience developing consumer iOS applications, and design systems at scale
• Expertise in Swift, UIKit and SwiftUI
• Track record of leading projects end-to-end that involve strong cross-functional collaboration with Product and Design partners.
• You possess passion for UI and Motion animation development, with attention to detail mindset
• [Bonus] Experience working with Figma and other design tools

Offices: United States