Senior iOS Engineer

The Community You Will Join:

Identity Team 

Join our team at Airbnb and play a crucial role in enhancing transparency and trust within our global community! We pride ourselves on using identity verification as a powerful tool to build trust among our users. This team works with design, product, privacy/legal, operations, and other engineering teams to verify users are who they say they are and build trust on the platform. If you're passionate about developing cutting-edge solutions that drive positive impacts on a global scale, join us on this exciting journey to foster a safer and more trustworthy Airbnb community!

What problems are we solving on Identity?

Streamlining verification with modern technologies

We are tackling the challenge of making identity verification seamless and secure. Traditional verification methods can create friction, leading to user drop-offs and lower conversion rates. To improve the experience, we are exploring innovative solutions that leverage trusted digital identities and emerging technologies to streamline verification while maintaining the highest standards of security and compliance. As a part of the team, you’ll be shaping the future of frictionless identity verification at scale!

Localized Verification

We are tackling the challenge of making identity verification more accessible and effective across diverse regions. A global approach doesn’t always align with local needs, which can create friction for users. We’re exploring ways to adapt verification experiences to different markets, ensuring a seamless and trusted process while maintaining security and compliance.

Secure and Resilient Identity Verification  

As fraud tactics evolve, staying ahead of bad actors is a constant challenge. Traditional identity verification methods can become less effective over time, requiring more advanced solutions to maintain security and trust. We are exploring innovative approaches to strengthen verification, enhance fraud detection, and ensure a seamless experience for legitimate users.

The Difference You Will Make:

Your day-to-day responsibilities includes:

• You will work in a team of talented and diverse software engineers to help us build delightful experiences, strengthen our current offerings, and deliver new products. You will play a significant role in shaping the technical vision and delivering flexible, efficient and scalable solutions. Each individual brings their own unique skill set, experiences, thought leadership and technical expertise to solve these technical challenges for Airbnb.
• Work cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy to build high quality products and features
• Drive, lead, and contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be reviewing code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and mocks.
• Nurture a culture of technical quality from design, through code review, to production operations
• Support teammates in enabling code quality, operational excellence, and shared learning

Your Expertise:

• Bachelor's and/or Master's degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of experience building scalable iOS applications for large user bases, with a keen eye for design details
• Proficient in Swift, Objective-C, UIKit, SwiftUI, and UI architecture, with a focus on performance optimization
• Extensive experience working with GraphQL
• Experience shipping iOS apps to the App Store, demonstrating technical excellence and product sense
• Passionate about continuous learning and staying ahead of trends in mobile development
• Strong coding skills, with a solid understanding of data structures, asynchronous programming, and engineering best practices
• Proven ability to architect and develop solutions for ambiguous problems and integrations across multiple teams.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, especially in cross-functional teams and with non-technical stakeholders
• Strong product sense and a passion for UI/UX, with a proven ability to translate vision into high-quality solutions
• Comfortable leading technical initiatives, contributing to roadmaps, and solving ambiguous challenges
• Motivated to mentor and improve team productivity through code reviews and architecture discussions
• Experience in fraud prevention or identity systems is a plus

Your 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.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

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: [email protected]. 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.