iOS Team Lead

Amsterdam-based team of 100 with 25+ nationalities building Polarsteps, the app that lets you plan, track, and relive every trip. Polarsteps has over 20 million users. The role focuses on leading the iOS team while remaining a senior engineer on the app, with a strong emphasis on user experience, performance, and scalability.

Responsibilities

Lead and mentor a team of iOS engineers; Make a difference in creating a high performing, engaged and collaborative team; Partner with the iOS Tech Lead to balance technical excellence with people leadership across the iOS team; Work with iOS engineers on all things related to the app; Spend approximately 40% of time leading the iOS discipline and 60% working as a senior engineer on the app; Have daily interactions with product managers, designers, and other engineers; Proactively improve the app's maintainability, resiliency, and extensibility, addressing or preventing technical debt

Requirements

Led teams of 3/4 or more engineers for 2 or more years; Hands-on experience leading and mentoring engineers; Pragmatic approach to problem-solving and tackling big challenges in UI, architecture, or refactoring; Strong iOS development background with Swift; Extensive experience with large apps published in the App Store; In-depth knowledge of UIKit, SwiftUI and 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, code quality, and debugging efficiency

Nice to have

Familiarity with legacy Objective-C code

Benefits

Equity participation in the Polarsteps SAR Plan; Yearly free flight or train ride to a random location; New MacBook; Hybrid working (2 days per week in the office); Extensive home office set-up; 30 days of vacation; Two paid Culture Days; Working from another country for up to 8 weeks a year; Personal development budget; Pension plan; Daily team lunches; Monthly parties and team trips; Office travel costs reimbursed; Free Polarsteps Travel Books; 8% holiday allowance included in salary