We're an Amsterdam-based team of 40+ individuals with 15+ nationalities among us! A varied bunch of ‘citizens of the world’ with a range of cool skills and hundreds of thousands of kilometers under our travel belts. And we have something important in common (other than our very well-worn passports):

 

 

 

Polarsteps has over 5 million users already, but for us, this is just the beginning. We have big plans for the future, and so we need even more talented and enthusiastic people to help us on our journey.

 

 

 

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 travelers. And this 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 also been mentioned in two of Apple’s WWDC keynote speeches!

 

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 more than 4 million users.

 

Despite our vast user base, we believe in giving our team members the freedom they need to craft things to perfection — while also encouraging a pragmatic mindset to avoid under- or over-engineering mishaps.

 

We are seeing an enthusiastic and accelerated recovery 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.

 

 

You will:

• Work closely with Rodrigo (Head of Engineering), Javi, Sergei and Onur (Senior iOS engineers) on all things related to our app.
• Be responsible for implementing new features, improving existing features and maintaining the day-to-day operations of our iOS App.
• Be part of a small, fast-moving team and have a lot of responsibility starting from day 1.
• Take part in daily interactions with product owners, designers, other engineers and the rest of our team — we believe in a deeply collaborative environment.
• Proactively improving the maintainability, resiliency and extensibility of our app, addressing technical debt when needed or even better, preventing it when it makes sense.

 

 

• A passion for problem-solving and programming. We believe that knowing your way around the specifics of certain APIs is only one part of the game. We have an interest in software development in general and often share approaches and ideas across teams. We value the lower-level understanding of certain ideas and principles more than a high-level understanding of any given framework that might be deprecated in the future.
• Experience working in an agile team environment.
• Enthusiasm for tackling big challenges in UI, architecture, or refactoring that 5-year-old piece of legacy code.
• A 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.
• In-depth knowledge of UIKit, and experience building complex user interfaces.
• Experience with writing and debugging multithreading code. We use GCD, Combine, and the latest Swift Concurrency.

 

 

 

 

At 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 currently 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.