Senior iOS Engineer, Guest & Host
- Salary
- $196,000 - $227,000
- Level
- Senior
- Work type
- Remote · US only
Not stated in the posting: visa.
Open. First seen 27 October 2026.
About the role
Airbnb's standard text
Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.
The Community You Will Join:
The App Experience & Frameworks team’s mission is to empower product teams at Airbnb to build high-quality experiences by providing the feature foundations and unified app wide product frameworks. The Senior iOS Engineer joining this team will play a critical role in the end-to-end development of new product features across guest and host experiences, driving features from prototypes to production launch in collaboration with cross-functional partners across Design, Product, Marketing, Data Science and partner Engineering teams.
This team is part of the App Foundation organization, focusing on building common solutions for Tech-wide priorities like Performance, Event Logging, App Configuration (AirParam), and builds app-wide features and frameworks including Host Task System, Navigation, and the Early Access Program.
The Difference You Will Make:
- As a Senior iOS Engineer on the App Experience & Frameworks team, you will build features and frameworks that enhance the app experience for millions of guests and hosts. You will work on horizontal product concerns such as app navigation, announcement scheduling, frameworks that power host required actions, and more, to lay the product foundation for bringing a more unified customer experience across platforms.
- Success in this role looks like shipping reliable, scalable, and polished iOS experiences that both bring direct customer delight and enable feature teams to build and experiment faster.
A Typical Day:
- Collaborate closely with cross functional partners in Design and Product to rapidly ideate, prototype, develop, and ship both product features and app wide frameworks.
- Develop prototypes to validate ideas while proactively considering long-term implications on technical design and architecture.
- Translate prototypes to high quality, scalable, and maintainable production code through iterative development.
- Partner with peer engineering teams to integrate new features that impact different areas within the product and continuously optimize frameworks the team owns based on developer feedback.
- Troubleshoot and resolve bugs, accessibility, and globalization issues affecting the iOS app.
Your Expertise:
- 5+ years of building production iOS applications at scale.
- Expertise in Swift, SwiftUI, and UIKit, as well as deep understanding of client architecture and UI performance.
- Experience working with backend and other platform (Android and web) engineers to integrate APIs and keep cross-platform experiences consistent.
- Bias toward action in ambiguous situations, with ability to independently lead projects from start to finish.
- Strong cross-functional partnership skills. Flexible and resilient when scope, designs, and priorities change, treating iterations as a path to better product rather than a setback.
- Attention to detail and a high bar for polish, accessibility, and quality.
- Preferably with prior experience shipping delightful user experiences that include fluid interactions, motion, and graphics.
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.
Airbnb's standard text
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.
Equal Employment Opportunity:
Airbnb values diversity & belonging and is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All individuals seeking employment at Airbnb are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, gender, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected characteristic.
How We'll Take Care of You:
Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
Pay Range
$196,000—$227,000 USD
Airbnb's standard text
Reasonable Accommodations: We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities. If you need assistance, or an accommodation, please let your recruiter know once you are contacted about a role.
A Note on Recruiting Scams: Scammers sometimes pose as Airbnb recruiters to get money or personal information from candidates. A few things that will always be true for Airbnb’s hiring process: our open roles are posted on Airbnb’s Career’s Page at careers.airbnb.com, and our recruiters correspond only from @airbnb.com or @ext.airbnb.com email addresses. Our recruiters will never ask for your Social Security number, bank account details, passport, or payment app information while you are interviewing.
We’ll also never ask you to pay a fee, send money, deposit or cash a check, or purchase work-related equipment (such as a company laptop) during the interview process. We encourage candidates to remain vigilant of these recruiting scams and not share sensitive information if you do not believe an individual is actually affiliated with Airbnb.
What this role asks for
Particular to this role
UIKit
Rare in Airbnb's other 91 open postings.
Standard for mobile roles
Android · Swift · iOS
Common in mobile postings at any company.
64% of this description is written for the role. The rest is Airbnb's standard text, folded away below.
Compared with Airbnb's other open jobs.
The team: Software Engineering HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 54 open in Software Engineering. 21 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in March: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Java (21 of 54), LLM (21 of 54), Python (21 of 54), Machine Learning (19 of 54), SQL (11 of 54), Generative AI (10 of 54), Golang (10 of 54)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Staff Software Engineer AI, Platform posted Oct 29
- Backend Engineer, Profile & Community posted Oct 29
- Senior Software Engineer, Experimentation Platform posted Oct 29
- Software Engineer, Payments posted Oct 28
- Senior Software Engineer, UI Tooling (Full Stack iOS) posted Oct 27
- Staff Software Engineer, UI Tooling (Full Stack) posted Oct 26
- Senior Software Engineer, Experimentation Interfaces posted Oct 26
- Manager, Engineering, Dev AI posted Oct 22
- Systems Engineer, Tech Foundations (Jira cloud) posted Oct 22
- Software Engineer, Payments posted Oct 21
- Senior Software Engineer, Streaming Infrastructure posted Oct 20
- Staff Software Engineer - Hosting Services posted Oct 16
- Senior Software Engineer, Analytics Infrastructure posted Oct 13
- Software Engineer, Analytics Infrastructure posted Oct 13
- Staff Software Engineer, Data Authoring posted Oct 9
- Staff Software Engineer, iOS Platform posted Oct 9
- Senior Software Engineer, iOS Platform posted Oct 9
- Staff Software Engineer, Payments (AirCover Insurance Platform) posted Oct 6
- Senior Fullstack Software Engineer, Quality Platform posted Oct 6
- Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure posted Oct 6
- Senior Staff Engineer, Guest & Host (Host Listings & Quality) posted Sep 29
- Engineering Manager, Guest & Host (Host Listings & Quality) posted Sep 29
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Trust posted Sep 24
- Senior Staff Data Engineer, Foundational Data posted Sep 22
- Senior Software Engineer, Tech Foundations posted Sep 17
- Senior Software Engineer, Storage posted Sep 14
- Staff Software Engineer, Data Warehouse posted Sep 11
- Staff Software Engineer, Data Catalog posted Sep 9
- Early Career Software Engineer, Tech Foundations posted Aug 24
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Trust posted Aug 14
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Traffic Intelligence posted Aug 13
- Senior Engineering Manager, Media Foundation posted Aug 4
- Senior Staff Software Engineer, Marketing Technology posted Jul 29
- Staff Backend Engineer - Ads Platform posted Jul 22
- Operations Engineer, BizTech posted Jul 20
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Query Intelligence posted Jul 14
- Senior Software Engineer, Service Tools posted Jun 24
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Assistance Engineering posted Jun 23
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Assistance Engineering posted Jun 2
- Principal Machine Learning Engineer- LLM Fine-tuning and Optimization posted May 24
- Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Post Training posted May 5
- Staff Software Engineer, Unified Data Store posted Apr 29
- Senior Staff Software Engineer, Trust posted Apr 21
- Machine Learning Engineer, Assistance Engineering posted Apr 20
- Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Growth Platform Engineering posted Apr 14
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Payments posted Mar 26
- Machine Learning Engineer, Assistance Engineering posted Mar 23
- Staff Software Engineer, Tech Foundations posted Mar 11
- Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Trust posted Feb 5
- Engineering Manager, Guest & Host posted Jan 23
- Staff Software Engineer, Marketplaces & Intelligence Data and AI posted Jan 12
- Senior Staff Software Engineer, Payments posted Jan 9
- Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Data & Eval posted Mar 30
From the team and dates on Airbnb's own job board.
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