Polarsteps
Travel
iOSPeopleLead
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“iOS People Lead at Polarsteps. Skills: iOS development, People leadership, App architecture. Lead iOS developers. Work with iOS developers”
Industry & Context.
Pragmatic approach to problem-solving; Tackling big challenges
Office 2 days a week, Work from another country up to 8 weeks a year
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
iOS development background, Swift, Objective-C, Extensive experience with large apps published in the App Store, In-depth knowledge of UIKit, In-depth knowledge of SwiftUI, Experience building complex user interfaces, Experience with writing and debugging multithreading code, Experience with Swift Package Manager, Experience using Xcode instruments to optimize app performance and memory consumption, Experience with setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, Experience leveraging AI tools
Nice to Have
Experience in leading and mentoring engineers, Pragmatic approach to problem-solving, Familiarity with legacy code refactoring
What You'll Do.
Work with iOS developers
Balance technical excellence
Balance people leadership
Improve app maintainability
Improve app resiliency
Improve app extensibility
Address technical debt
Prevent technical debt
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner with iOS Tech Lead; Daily interactions with product managers; Daily interactions with designers; Daily interactions with other engineers; Daily interactions with team members; Collaborative environment
Full Job Description
Looking for a new adventure? You’ve come to the right place. We're an Amsterdam-based team of 90+ (and counting) with 25+ nationalities amongst us! A varied bunch of “Citizens of The World” with a wide range of skills and hundreds of thousands of kilometers under our travel belts. And we have something important in common (other than our very well-worn passports): We want to change the way people travel. And that's exactly what we're doing, with the travel app to plan, track, and relive trips in a smart and beautiful way. Polarsteps has over 20 million users already, but, for us, this is just the beginning. We have big plans for the future, and so we need even more talented and enthusiastic people to help us on our journey. We want to change the way people travel. And that's exactly what we're doing, with the travel app to plan, track, and relive trips in a smart and beautiful way. Polarsteps has over 20 million users already but, for us, this is just the beginning. We have exciting new features on our roadmap and we need a talented iOS Engineer to help us on our journey. Want to know more about us? Here https://careers.polarsteps.com/ you go. YOUR EXPEDITION: IOS DEVELOPMENT AT POLARSTEPS We’re a small team, doing big things. If you haven't seen our app yet, go ahead and check it out, you'll see that we care (a lot) about providing a seamless, top-quality user experience for every one of our travellers. And it is this that has got us ratings of 4.8* and 4.7* on the app stores (where we’ve been featured multiple times). But it doesn’t stop there, not only did Google create this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYcBqtOwLcg awesome video about us but we’ve been mentioned in two of Apple’s WWDC keynote speeches. And we're one of the top 26 apps for 2026 https://apps.apple.com/ie/iphone/story/id1849362474 according to Apple! We’ve got an impressive past but we’re even more excited for the future, and the impact you can make from day one is huge, with everything you ship
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