iOS People Lead

Polarsteps

Lead the iOS development team at Polarsteps, enhancing our travel app for over 20 million users. Collaborate with engineers and product managers to improve app performance and user experience.

Posted 5/29/2026full-timeAmsterdam • 🇳🇱 NetherlandsSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

iOSObjective-CSwift

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead and work with Javi, Andrii, Orcun, Arne, Lieneke, Daniil, Rosa, Dmytro, Azat and Paulo (our iOS developers) on all things related to our app.
Partner with Jimmy, our iOS Tech Lead, to balance technical excellence with strong people leadership across the iOS team.
You will spend approximately 40% of your time leading our iOS discipline, and 60% in the role of a senior engineer working on our app.
Daily interactions with product managers, designers, other engineers, and the rest of our team, we believe in a deeply collaborative environment.
Proactively improving our app's maintainability, resiliency, and extensibility, addressing technical debt when needed or even better, preventing it when it makes sense.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience in leading and mentoring engineers, helping your teammates grow, thrive, and do their best work, while keeping the team atmosphere collaborative and positive.
A 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.
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.
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. We use GCD, Combine, and the latest Swift Concurrency.
Experience with Swift Package Manager.
Experience using Xcode instruments to optimize app performance and memory consumption.
Experience with setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines. We use Fastlane and Github actions.
Experience leveraging AI tools (e.g., Claude Code, ChatGPT Codex) to improve development speed, code quality, and debugging efficiency.

Benefits

Comp & perks

A yearly free flight or train ride to a random location! Give our Teleporter a spin here.
A shiny new MacBook to work your magic on.
Hybrid 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.
An extensive home office set-up, everything from noise-canceling headphones to a standing desk.
30 days of vacation (for adventures or sitting on the couch, it's up to you)
Two paid Culture Days for days that are important to you but not recognized by the official Dutch calendar.
The option to switch up your zoom background by working from another country for up to 8 weeks a year.
A personal development budget for that curious mind of yours!
A pension plan to help you save for those around-the-world retirement trips.
Delicious daily team lunches.
Awesome monthly parties, as well as team trips away.
A lively office in downtown Amsterdam, with travel costs reimbursed.
Free Polarsteps Travel Books to contain all your far-flung adventures.

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Hard Skills & Tools

iOS developmentSwiftObjective-CUIKitSwiftUImultithreadingGCDCombineSwift Package ManagerCI/CD

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringcollaborationproblem-solvingteam atmospherepositive environmentproactive improvementaddressing technical debtcommunicationadaptability