Senior iOS Engineer, Payments

The Community You Will Join

Airbnb’s Payments and Insurance Engineering team is responsible for building the trusted financial and protection experiences that underpin our global marketplace. The team powers seamless payments while enabling coverage and insurance options that protect both guests and hosts, helping them book, travel, and host with confidence. We design and operate an in-house platform that moves billions of dollars across 191 countries and 70 currencies, integrating with a complex ecosystem of global payment and insurance partners. As the platform evolves, we continue to expand global capabilities, onboard new partners, and build innovative payment and insurance experiences that strengthen trust across Airbnb.

The Difference You Will Make

You’ll work with a talented and diverse group of mobile engineers to build high-quality, mobile-first experiences that strengthen our payments and protection offerings and enable new products for guests and hosts worldwide. In this role, you’ll help shape the mobile technical vision by delivering flexible, performant, and scalable iOS solutions on one of Airbnb’s fastest-growing platforms. You’ll collaborate across multiple agile product teams, applying your mobile expertise to solve complex problems and drive meaningful impact for our global community.

A Typical Day

• Partner closely with product managers, designers, and fellow engineers to translate product and business strategy into high-quality, user-focused features
• Own and contribute across the full development lifecycle—from technical design and implementation to testing, experimentation, analysis, and launch—while providing thoughtful feedback on product specs, UX mocks, code, and design documents
• Champion a culture of technical excellence by upholding high standards in architecture, code reviews, and production operations, ensuring reliability, performance, and long-term maintainability

Your Expertise

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 6+ years of experience building, scaling, and maintaining iOS applications for large user bases, with strong attention to design quality and detail
• Advanced proficiency in Swift and Objective-C, with hands-on experience using UIKit, SwiftUI, and modern iOS UI architectures, emphasizing performance and maintainability
• Extensive experience integrating and consuming GraphQL APIs in production
• Demonstrated success shipping high-quality iOS applications to the App Store, with strong technical execution and product judgment
• Strong computer science fundamentals, including data structures, asynchronous programming, and mobile engineering best practices
• Proven ability to independently design and deliver solutions in ambiguous problem spaces, including cross-team and cross-system integrations
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with experience partnering closely with product, design, and other non-engineering stakeholders
• Solid product sense and passion for UI/UX, with the ability to translate product vision into polished, user-focused experiences
• Experience leading technical initiatives within a team, contributing to planning and execution, and solving complex engineering challenges
• Commitment to continuous learning and staying current with evolving mobile technologies and platform trends
• Demonstrated desire to mentor teammates and elevate code quality through reviews, design discussions, and technical guidance
• Nice to have: Familiarity with payments and insurance concepts and user flows

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. 

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