iOS Engineer

About KAYAK

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 an iOS Engineer to join our team in Berlin. KAYAK is a global company so we look forward to collaborating with colleagues from Kaunas to Boston all the way to Sydney.

In this role you will be expected to work from our Berlin office at least 3 days per week.

In this role, you will:

• Collaborate with designers, product managers, engineers and QA to define, design and ship new features.

• Help us drive quality, code coverage and green culture.

• Learn how to participate in a two-week rotation that includes on-call duty, releasing apps to the AppStore, dependency upgrades, green culture & CI agent maintenance.

Please apply if you have:

• At least two years of experience with Swift and iOS development.

• Ability to work autonomously while maintaining attention to detail.

• Experience collaborating with non-technical colleagues such as designers and product managers.

• Efficient English language skills in both written and spoken communication.

Tech Stack:

• App written in latest Swift modularized into several frameworks

• 95% 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 SwiftFrame, carthage_remote_cache and attributions

Benefits and Perks

• Work from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year

• Focus on mental health and well-being:

  • Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth

  • Company-paid subscription to HeadSpace

  • Company-wide week off a year - the whole team fully recharges (and returns without a pile-up of work!)

• No meeting Fridays

• Paid parental leave

• Generous paid vacation + time off for your birthday

• Paid volunteer time

• Focus on your career growth:

  • Development Dollars

  • Leadership development

  • Access to thousands of on-demand e-learnings

• Travel Discounts

• Employee Resource Groups

• 6 weeks paid vacation

• Free lunch 2 days per week

• Pension plan contributions

• Public transportation subsidies

• Bike leasing program

• Monthly social events, Thursday happy hours, sports teams

• An awesome office in Friedrichshain, Berlin

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

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