Senior iOS Engineer - Trip Planner

Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.

Why Join Us?

To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.

We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a flexible work model (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.

Introduction to Team

Expedia Technology teams partner with our Product teams to create innovative products, services, and tools to deliver high-quality experiences for travelers, partners, and our employees. A singular technology platform powered by data and machine learning provides secure, differentiated, and personalized experiences that drive loyalty and traveler satisfaction.

The Senior iOS Engineer role is part of the Trip Planner team, which builds the next generation of travel planning experiences to help travelers discover, share, and organize their dream vacations with ease. We design responsive, cross-platform, and large-scale solutions that integrate with every line of business—air, lodging, car rental, and more. We're also applying cutting-edge AI technologies to personalize and simplify the planning process for millions of travelers. Planning a trip should be exciting—not overwhelming. You’ll be part of a team that blends technology and human touch to solve real traveler problems, helping people explore the world and create lasting memories. Your contributions will support our strategy to make travel more predictive, proactive, and personalized—powered by AI, but grounded in trust and connection.

This position will play a pivotal role in shaping the architecture of our mobile apps. Your work will directly influence how travelers interact with our platform, ensuring seamless, scalable, and delightful experiences. This is a high-impact role where your technical leadership will help define the future of mobile travel planning—contributing to our ambition to become the global one-stop travel marketplace.

In this role, you will:

• Lead development of iOS features and guide architectural decisions

• Build holistic solutions that ensure consistent experiences across platforms

• Collaborate with UX designers, engineers, and product managers to deliver intuitive and delightful traveler experiences

• Champion engineering excellence, usability, and quality

• Share knowledge across teams and mentor junior developers

• Contribute to an agile team culture of continuous learning and improvement

• Explore and recommend emerging technologies to improve performance and scalability

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience

• 8+ years of professional mobile/software development experience with a Bachelor's degree, or 6+ years with a Master's

• Advanced proficiency in iOS technologies including Swift, SwiftUI, and Xcode

• Experience architecting scalable, modular, and maintainable iOS mobile architectures, leveraging common design patterns such as MVVM or VIPER

• Skilled in multi-threading, concurrency, and performance optimization in SwiftUI

• Experienced in leading technical discussions and simplifying complex problems

• Ability to communicate effectively across technical and non-technical audiences

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Firebase and Apollo, and openness to expanding into other enabling technologies like GraphQL

• Proven track record of building modular, scalable solutions with high transaction volumes

• Prior experience mentoring and developing other engineers

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The total cash range for this position in Austin is $184,500.00 to $258,000.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $295,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.

Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.

Expedia Group is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to support employees and their families, including medical/dental/vision, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program. To fuel each employee’s passion for travel, we offer a wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and an International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership. View our full list of benefits .

Accommodation requests

If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, or other physical or mental health conditions, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the Accommodation Request .

We are proud to be named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2024 and be recognized for award-winning culture by organizations like Forbes, TIME, Disability:IN, and others.

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