iOS Team Lead

The role

You will lead and mentor a team of iOS engineers while spending 60% of your time as a senior engineer working on the app. You will partner with the iOS Tech Lead to balance technical excellence with people leadership.

What you will do

• Lead and mentor a team of highly qualified, high performing iOS engineers.
• Make a difference in creating a high performing team that is highly engaged and collaborative.
• Partner with the iOS Tech Lead to balance technical excellence with strong people leadership.
• Work with iOS engineers on all things related to the app.
• Spend 40% of time leading the iOS discipline and 60% as a senior engineer.
• Have daily interactions with product managers, designers, and other engineers.
• Proactively improve app maintainability, resiliency, and extensibility.

Required qualifications

• Led teams of 3/4 or more engineers for 2 or more years.
• Experience leading and mentoring engineers.
• Pragmatic approach to problem-solving.
• Strong iOS development background.
• 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.
• Experience using Xcode instruments to optimize app performance and memory consumption.
• Experience setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience leveraging AI tools to improve development speed, code quality, and debugging efficiency.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Objective-C

Benefits

• Equity via Polarsteps SAR Plan
• A yearly free flight or train ride to a random location
• A shiny new MacBook
• Hybrid working
• Extensive home office set-up
• 30 days of vacation
• Two paid Culture Days
• Option to work from another country for up to 8 weeks a year
• Personal development budget
• Pension plan
• Delicious daily team lunches
• Monthly parties and team trips away

About the company

Polarsteps is an Amsterdam-based team of 100 people with an app that lets users plan, track, and relive trips. The app has over 20 million users.