iOS Team Lead
Lead and mentor a team of iOS engineers at Polarsteps, splitting time roughly 40% people leadership and 60% hands-on senior engineering on its travel app used by 20M+ people. Core stack: Swift (plus some legacy Objective-C), UIKit, SwiftUI, GCD/Combine/Swift Concurrency, with Fastlane and GitHub Actions for CI/CD.
- Compensation
- €100K–€115K / yr
- Location
- Amsterdam
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Lead
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Mobile
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Led teams of 3/4 or more engineers for 2 or more years
- Hands-on experience leading and mentoring engineers while keeping the team collaborative and positive
- Pragmatic approach to problem-solving, comfortable tackling big challenges in UI, architecture, or legacy refactoring
- Strong iOS development background with Swift and familiarity with legacy Objective-C
- Extensive experience with large apps published in the App Store
- In-depth knowledge of UIKit and SwiftUI, with experience building complex user interfaces
- Experience writing and debugging multithreading code (GCD, Combine, Swift Concurrency)
- Experience using Xcode Instruments to optimize app performance and memory consumption
- Experience setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Fastlane, GitHub Actions)
- Experience leveraging AI tools (e.g., Claude Code, ChatGPT Codex) to improve development speed and code quality
Full description
Looking for a new adventure? You’ve come to the right place.
We'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.
Want to know more about us? Here you go.
Your expedition: iOS at Polarsteps
We’re a small team, doing big things.
If 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!
We’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.
Even 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.
We 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.
Your itinerary
What your journey at Polarsteps will look like day-to-day.
You will:
- Lead and mentor a team of highly qualified, high performing iOS engineers.
- Through your leadership strengths, make a difference in creating a high performing team that is highly engaged and collaborative.
- Partner with Jimmy, our iOS Tech Lead, to balance technical excellence with strong people leadership across the iOS team.
- Work with our iOS engineers on all things related to our app.
- Spend approximately 40% of your time leading our iOS discipline, and 60% in the role of a senior engineer working on our app.
- Have daily interactions with product managers, designers, other engineers, and the rest of our team - we believe in a deeply collaborative environment.