Senior iOS Engineer

Looking for a new adventure? You’ve come to the right place.

We're an Amsterdam-based team of 60 (and counting) with 20+ nationalities amongst us – a varied bunch of “Citizens of The World” with a range of cool skills and hundreds of thousands of kilometers under our travel belts. We also 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 remember trips in a smart and beautiful way.

Polarsteps has over 12 million users already, but, for us, this is just the start. You see, there are amazing new features on our roadmap, and we need even more talented & ambitious people to help us on our journey.

Want to know more about us? Here you go.

Your expedition: Senior iOS Engineer 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 travelers. And it is this that has got us ratings of 4.8* on the app stores (where we’ve been featured multiple times).

Our constant innovation is done with a clear aim: to turn Polarsteps into the best travel app out there – which is probably why Google created this awesome video about us, and we've been featured multiple times in the App Store, as well as in two Apple’s WWDC keynote speeches.

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 affecting more than 9 million users.

Despite our vast user base, we believe in giving our team members the freedom to craft things to perfection while encouraging a pragmatic mindset to avoid under- or over-engineering mishaps.

We are seeing an enthusiastic and accelerated recovery of the travel industry — and with that comes both opportunities and growing pains (especially in the complex, multi-layered travel domain). So, if on top of the challenges inherent to feature development, you enjoy thinking about the performance and scalability aspects of a platform, you're in for a lot of fun with us.

Your itinerary

What your journey at Polarsteps will look like day-to-day.

You will:

• Working closely with Maxi (our co-founder and CTO), Jimmy (our lead iOS engineer) and an amazing team of senior engineers on all things related to our app.
• Be responsible for implementing new features, improving existing features and maintaining the day-to-day operations of our iOS App.
• Daily interactions with product owners, designers, other engineers and the rest of our team — we believe in a deeply collaborative environment.
• Proactively improving the maintainability, resiliency and extensibility of our app, addressing technical debt when needed or even better, preventing it when it makes sense.

The equipment in your backpack

What we’re hoping you’ll bring with you.

• Experience working in an agile team environment.
• A pragmatic approach to problem-solving, and an absence of fear when it comes to tackling big challenges in UI, architecture, or refactoring that 5-year-old piece of legacy code.
• A strong iOS development background — we work with Swift, but we still have some legacy Objective-C code, so we would love it if you are also familiar with that.
• Extensive experience with large apps published in the App Store.
• In-depth knowledge of UIKit, SwiftUI and experience building complex user interfaces.
• Experience with writing and debugging multithreading code. We use GCD, Combine, and the latest Swift Concurrency.
• Realm knowledge (this is not a must but would be highly appreciated).
• Experience with Swift Package Manager.
• Experience using Xcode instruments to optimize app performance and memory consumption.
• You are based in the Netherlands.

1st class extras

Some cool things to make the journey extra sweet.

• A yearly free flight or train ride to a random location! Give our Teleporter a spin here.
• A shiny new MacBook to work your magic on.
• Hybrid working. Split your time between the office and your home as you see fit.
• An extensive home office set-up — everything from noise-canceling headphones to a standing desk.
• 30 days of vacation (for adventures or sitting on the couch, it's up to you)
• Two paid Culture Days for days that are important to you but not recognized by the official Dutch calendar.-
• The option to switch up your zoom background by working from another country for up to 8 weeks a year.
• A personal development budget for that curious mind of yours!
• A pension plan to help you save for those around-the-world retirement trips.
• Delicious daily team lunches.
• Awesome monthly parties, as well as team trips away.
• A lively office in downtown Amsterdam, with travel costs reimbursed.
• Free Polarsteps Travel Books to contain all your far-flung adventures.

At Polarsteps, we believe the best products are built by people as diverse as the travelers using our apps! That's why we specifically encourage people underrepresented in the tech industry to apply for a role with us. Because we believe that diversity — be it age, race, sexual orientation, physical ability, ethnicity, or gender identity — makes both the world and the workplace better.

Think this is the path for you? Find out more about how we hire.