Principal iOS Engineer - Search and Recommendations Experience

The Product Team creates high quality end to end experiences for travelers, partners, and Expedia Group. Our focus on customer centric innovation enables us to develop products that build loyalty and repeat business. We partner closely with teams across Expedia Group to drive growth and achieve results for our customers and the company.

This Principal iOS Engineer sits within the Search and Recommendations Experience team which owns the end to end search and recommendations experience, including search entry, results, maps, filters, and recommendations across multiple lines of business such as lodging, cars, activities, flights and packages. In this role, you will provide technical leadership for native search and discovery experiences, setting architectural direction, influencing engineering standards, and shaping the evolution of AI enabled capabilities across the mobile platform.

• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of advanced iOS applications, ensuring high performance, quality, and responsiveness across Expedia Group's product suite.
• Architect and implement robust, scalable system and API designs, including effective data modeling to support complex business requirements.
• Drive cross functional collaboration to define, develop, and ship impactful features, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and technical strategy.
• Champion best practices in software engineering, testability, and maintainability through code reviews and mentoring.
• Safely integrate and operate AI/ML enabled solutions to enhance user experience and improve operational outcomes.
• Troubleshoot, optimize, and resolve complex technical issues, contributing to the continuous improvement of services and domain capabilities.

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.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience.
• 12+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Demonstrated experience owning the full lifecycle of iOS services or features within a multi service or domain environment.
• Proficiency in Swift, Objective C, and iOS frameworks, with a strong understanding of system and API design principles.
• Familiarity with AI driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world products.

• Experience architecting scalable, complex, modular, and maintainable iOS mobile architectures, leveraging common design patterns such as MVVM or VIPER.
• Advanced proficiency in SwiftUI - Skilled in multi threading, concurrency, and performance optimization.
• Prior experience in the search domain or travel industry, such as building or scaling search, discovery in consumer mobile apps.
• Experience establishing technical strategy, best practices, and operational excellence for organizational mobile platforms.
• Advanced knowledge of integrating AI/ML capabilities into mobile products to enhance functionality and user engagement.
• Demonstrated experience collaborating within large, globally dispersed development teams.
• Expertise in cross platform or multi domain engineering, contributing to broad technical initiatives.

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