Senior iOS Engineer

KAYAK, part of Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG), is the world’s leading travel search engine. With billions of queries across our platforms, we help people find their perfect flight, stay, rental car and vacation package. We’re also transforming business travel with a new corporate travel solution, KAYAK for Business.

As an employee of KAYAK, you will be part of a travel company that operates a portfolio of global metasearch brands including momondo, Cheapflights and HotelsCombined, among others. From start-up to industry leader, innovation is in our DNA and every employee has an opportunity to make their mark. Our focus is on building the best travel search engine to make it easier for everyone to experience the world.

KAYAK’s iOS app is used by hundreds of thousands of people around the world every day. Our mission not only is to provide the smartest tools to plan and manage people’s trips – we want to help them experience the world through travel. Do you want to be part of our vision? Do you want to engage with mission-critical systems? Do you want your work to have a direct impact on end users? If your answer to all of these is yes, then let’s get in touch!

We are currently looking for a Senior iOS Engineer to join our team in Vilnius. KAYAK is a global company so we look forward to collaborating with colleagues from Berlin to Boston all the way to Sydney.

In this role, you will:

• Collaborate with designers, product managers, engineers and QA to define, design and ship new features
• Implement pixel-perfect UIs and take ownership of a piece of the codebase
• Champion team goals of quality, code coverage and green culture
• Contribute your technical expertise and vision to the app's infrastructure and architecture
• Maintain and advance our automation pipelines, including screenshots and localization
• Participate in a two-week rotation that includes on-call duty, releasing apps to the AppStore, dependency upgrades, green culture & bamboo agent maintenance

Please apply if you have:

• Senior-level knowledge of Swift and iOS development
• Strong computer science background with proven understanding of fundamental algorithms and data structures
• An analytical mindset and excellent problem solving skills
• Ability to work autonomously while maintaining attention to detail
• Competence in collaborating with non-technical colleagues such as designers and product managers
• Passion for mobile and enthusiasm about building phenomenal products
• Fluent English communication skills
• Ability to thrive in a hybrid working model, working at least three office days per week

Tech Stack:

• App written in latest Swift modularized into several frameworks
• 99% of UI is developed using UIKit & Autolayout
• In the process of adopting SwiftUI
• Dependencies managed by Carthage
• Tooling and infrastructure in various programming languages (bash, swift, ruby, python)
• Unit, Integration, API and snapshot tests developed using XCTest
• Open source projects like SwiftGenStrings, SwiftFrame, carthage_remote_cache and attributions

Benefits and Perks:

• Work from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year
• Funds for your career growth
• Access to thousands of on-demand e-learnings
• Generous additional Health Insurance
• Flexible sick time off
• Additional financial support for your sick leave
• Additional day off on your birthday
• Company-wide vacation week once a year (winter holidays)
• Additional financial support during parental leave
• Free lunch twice a week and daily snacks at the office
• Free yoga twice a week
• Paid volunteering time
• No meeting Fridays
• Office and team events such as summer camp, KAYAK birthday, winter party and more!
• Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth
• Company-paid subscription to HeadSpace
• Internal Communities

Base part: 3333 EUR to 6600 EUR gross monthly.

Bonus part: 

• significant yearly bonuses, approx 10 percent annual salary;
• Booking Holdings RSU (Restricted Stock Units) package, worth 20.000 USD (before taxes) with possibility to get it every year.

The salary range provided is not final and will be discussed during the process based on your skills and experience.

Inclusion

At KAYAK, we want everyone to have the space to grow, share ideas and do great work. That’s why we’re focused on hiring the best talent from all walks of life and experiences, supporting them well and making sure no one feels like they have to fit a mold to belong here.

 Need an accommodation for the interview, application or on the job? No problem - just give us a heads-up. We’ve got you.

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