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If you thrive in a fast-paced, ideas-led environment, you’re in the right place.\nWhy this job’s a big deal:\nAs demand for seamless travel booking and flight discovery continues to reach record levels, we are focused on delivering a faster, highly responsive, and intuitive flights and shopping experience to make {big deal} moments happen for our customers. Our development environment is optimistic, collaborative, fast-moving, tight-knit, and rolls up its sleeves. Join our open, dynamic, no-red-tape web and platform engineering team-including designers, product managers, and backend engineers-who believe in hiring people who love what they do.\nIn this role you will get to:\nBuild and optimize Priceline's world-class native iOS flights search and shopping experience across iPhone and iPad apps.\nPerform extensive native development in Xcode, utilizing Swift and SwiftUI to construct reactive, accessible, and high-performance booking flows.\nCreate innovative flight search features-from real-time fare comparison and seat map interactions to flight customization and dynamic checkout flows-from scratch.\nLeverage modern AI-assisted developer tools (such as Claude, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot) to accelerate ideation, code generation, refactoring, and automated testing workflows.\nCollaborate closely with product managers, backend engineers, and UI/UX specialists to craft fast, stable solutions built on top of Apple’s latest iOS SDKs.\nArchitect client-side data handling, networking, and caching strategies to minimize search latency and ensure smooth app performance during peak booking traffic.\nMentor and coach less experienced iOS developers on modern Swift best practices, clean architecture, and UI responsiveness.\nWho you are:\nBachelor of Science in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.\n3+ years of experience building and maintaining high-performance, customer-facing iOS applications.\nStrong expertise in Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, the iOS SDK, and the Xcode development environment.\nDeep understanding of modern Swift Concurrency (e.g., async/await, Actors, TaskGroups, and structured concurrency patterns).\nHands-on experience with clean mobile architecture patterns (such as MVVM-C, VIPER, or The Composable Architecture / TCA) tailored for declarative UI workflows.\nFluency with AI-first developer tooling (e.g., Cursor, Claude, LLM-driven coding workflows) to increase development velocity, inspect edge cases, and streamline delivery.\nFamiliarity with local data persistence (e.g., SwiftData, Core Data, or Realm), network caching layer integration (URLSession), and dependency management using Swift Package Manager (SPM).\nStrong computer science fundamentals, including object-oriented and functional programming, data structures, unit testing (XCTest/Swift Testing), performance profiling (Instruments), and multithreaded debugging.\nDemonstrated domain experience with flight search engines, travel e-commerce, Global Distribution Systems (GDS), real-time dynamic pricing, or complex API consumption (REST/GraphQL) is a strong plus.\nIllustrated history of living the values necessary to Priceline: Customer, Innovation, Team, Accountability, and Trust.\nThe Right Results, the Right Way\" is not just a motto at Priceline; it’s a way of life. Unquestionable integrity and ethics is essential.\nThere are a variety of factors that go into determining a salary range, including but not limited to external market benchmark data, geographic location, and years of experience sought/required. In addition to a competitive base salary, certain roles may be eligible for an annual bonus and/or equity grant.\nThe salary range for this position is $130,000- $160,000K USD.\nWho We Are\nWE ARE PRICELINE.\nOur success as one of the biggest players in online travel is all thanks to our incredible, dedicated team of talented employees. Priceliners are focused on being the best travel deal makers in the world, motivated by our passion to help everyone experience the moments that matter most in their lives. Whether it’s a dream vacation, your cousin’s graduation, or your best friend’s wedding - we make travel affordable and accessible to our customers.\nOur culture is unique and inspiring (that’s what our employees tell us). We’re a grown-up, startup. We deliver the excitement of a new venture, without the struggles and chaos that can come with a business that hasn’t stabilized.\nWe’re on the cutting edge of innovative technologies. We keep the customer at the center of all that we do. Our ability to meet their needs relies on the strength of a workforce as diverse as the customers we serve. We bring together employees from all walks of life and we are proud to provide the kind of inclusive environment that stimulates innovation, creativity and collaboration.\nPriceline is part of the Booking Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: BKNG) family of companies, a highly profitable global online travel company with a market capitalization of over $80 billion. Our sister companies include Booking.com, BookingGo, Agoda, Kayak and OpenTable.\nIf you want to be part of something truly special, check us out!\nFlexible work at Priceline\nPriceline is following a hybrid working model, which includes two days onsite as determined by you and your manager (ideally selecting among Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday). On the remaining days, you can choose to be remote or in the office.\nPerks & Benefits at Priceline\nOur benefits are designed to support your health, wellbeing, and life inside and outside of work. Eligible Priceliners have access to:\nHealth & wellness coverage including medical, dental, vision, and mental health resources\nGenerous time off including PTO, holidays, a company-wide Priceline Pause reset week, and paid volunteer days\nWork/life support including the ability to work up to 4 weeks per year from anywhere, parental leave, dependent care and family support resources, Summer Fridays, and office perks like stocked kitchens and catered meals (varies by location)\nFinancial security programs such as retirement plans with company contributions, life and disability coverage, and tax-advantaged accounts\nSignature travel perks including employee-only discounts on hotels and flights, VIP deals, and Big Deal Bucks credits\nAdditional perks & discounts like travel and partner discounts, tuition support, legal support, and pet benefits\nA people-first culture with Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), social events, recognition programs, and service awards that help you connect, grow, and celebrate together\nSpecific benefits and programs vary by location.\nInclusion is a Big Deal!\nTo be the best travel dealmakers in the world, we believe our team should reflect the broad range of customers and communities we serve. 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