iOS Team Lead

Job 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 discipl…