iOS Software Engineer, Guest & Host

The Community You Will Join

As an iOS Engineer on the Account, Identity, & Privacy team at Airbnb, you’ll be responsible for building and shaping the future of Airbnb’s user accounts, identity management, and privacy-focused product flows. This includes user setup and management across the app, providing Airbnb’s users with a secure, reliable, and delightful authentication experience, and leading user privacy initiatives. The team is highly collaborative with its partners in design, product, data science, legal, and marketing to deliver features and experiences used by millions of people. We work closely with other engineering teams to ensure we build systems that are performant and configurable with architecture that's scalable and robust.

A typical day

• Collaborate with cross-functional partners such as Product Managers, Experience Designers and Engineers to design and deliver high-quality products on iOS, with a strong focus on user privacy.


• Identify areas of improvement and drive mobile best practices, particularly in the realm of data security and privacy.


• Build efficient and reusable mobile components and architect reliable, performant, and scalable mobile solutions for account and identity management, and privacy features.


• Working closely with Android and Web engineers on the team to develop foundational, cross platform solutions for account, identity, and privacy.

Your Expertise

• 2+ years’ experience developing iOS applications at scale with a high volume of users, preferably in Swift and SwiftUI.


• Extensive experience working with Swift, iOS Applications, GraphQL and REST APIs, with a proven track record in implementing secure and privacy-centric solutions.


• Excellent engineering and coding skills. Solid understanding of client networking, performance, caching, client storage solutions, accessibility, and asynchronous programming, with a deep understanding of privacy-by-design principles.


• Love collaborating via code reviews and architecture discussions, and are motivated to improve their teammates’ productivity, especially in areas related to security and privacy.


• You possess strong product sense and a passion for iOS UI and UX product development, with a keen eye for user privacy considerations.


• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with Product Management, Design, and other iOS, Android, and Web Engineers on complex account, identity, and privacy features.


• You’re passionate about continuous learning and innovation in the mobile industry, particularly regarding evolving privacy standards and technologies.


• Sound engineering and coding skills. Understanding of basic data structures and asynchronous programming.


• [Bonus] Experience with animation libraries. Knowledge of animation within SwiftUI.

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: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. 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.