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You’ve come to the right place.\nWe're an Amsterdam-based team of 100 (and counting), with 25+ nationalities and hundreds of thousands of kilometers under our collective travel belts. What we have in common, beyond very well-worn passports, is this: We want to change the way people travel. That's exactly what we're doing, with the app that lets you plan, track, and relive every trip. Polarsteps has over 20 million users already. For us, this is just the beginning.\nWant to know more about us? Here you go.\nYour expedition: iOS at Polarsteps\nWe’re a small team, doing big things.\nIf 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 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 according to Apple!\nWe’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 millions of users.\nEven with that in mind, we believe in truly giving our team members the freedom they need to craft to perfection while encouraging a practical mindset to avoid under or over-engineering mishaps.\nWe are seeing an enthusiastic and accelerated growth 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.\nYour itinerary\nWhat your journey at Polarsteps will look like day-to-day.\nYou will:\nLead and mentor a team of highly qualified, high performing iOS engineers.\n\nThrough your leadership strengths, make a difference in creating a high performing team that is highly engaged and collaborative.\n\nPartner with Jimmy, our iOS Tech Lead, to balance technical excellence with strong people leadership across the iOS team.\n\nWork with our iOS engineers on all things related to our app.\n\nSpend approximately 40% of your time leading our iOS discipline, and 60% in the role of a senior engineer working on our app.\n\nHave daily interactions with product managers, designers, other engineers, and the rest of our team - we believe in a deeply collaborative environment.\n\nProactively improve our app's maintainability, resiliency, and extensibility, addressing technical debt when needed or even better, preventing it when it makes sense.\n\nThe equipment in your backpack\nWhat we’re hoping you’ll bring with you.\nYou’ve led teams of 3/4 or more engineers for 2 or more years.\n\nTrue “on the ground” experience with leading and mentoring engineers: helping your teammates grow, thrive, and do their best work, while keeping the team atmosphere collaborative and positive.\n\nYou’ve seen the good, the bad, the ugly and the beautiful side of people leadership, and you are excited to continue in that journey.\n\nA 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.\n\nA 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.\n\nExtensive experience with large apps published in the App Store.\n\nIn-depth knowledge of UIKit, SwiftUI and experience building complex user interfaces.\n\nExperience with writing and debugging multithreading code. We use GCD, Combine, and the latest Swift Concurrency.\n\nExperience using Xcode instruments to optimize app performance and memory consumption.\n\nExperience with setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines. We use Fastlane and Github actions.\n\nExperience leveraging AI tools (e.g., Claude Code, ChatGPT Codex) to improve development speed, code quality, and debugging efficiency.\n\n1st class extras\nSome cool things to make the journey extra sweet.\nSalary range: Between EUR 100.000 - 115.000 gross per year incl. 8% holiday allowance (based on 40 hours/week).\n\nEquity: You'll be able to participate in our Polarsteps SAR Plan.\n\nA yearly free flight or train ride to a random location! Give our Teleporter a spin here.\n\nA shiny new MacBook to work your magic on.\n\nHybrid working, our way. Work from home and the office, we ask everyone to be in the office 2 days a week. It’s how we stay flexible, focused, and meaningfully connected in person.\n\nAn extensive home office set-up, everything from noise-canceling headphones to a standing desk.\n\n30 days of vacation (for adventures or sitting on the couch, it's up to you)\n\nTwo paid Culture Days for days that are important to you but not recognized by the official Dutch calendar.-\n\nThe option to switch up your zoom background by working from another country for up to 8 weeks a year.\n\nA personal development budget for that curious mind of yours!\n\nA pension plan to help you save for those around-the-world retirement trips.\n\nDelicious daily team lunches.\n\nAwesome monthly parties, as well as team trips away.\n\nA lively office in downtown Amsterdam, with travel costs reimbursed.\n\nFree Polarsteps Travel Books to contain all your far-flung adventures.\n\nAt 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.\nThink this is the path for you? 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