Founding iOS Engineer

ResortPass is redefining what it means to be a hotel guest. We’re building a new category in hospitality: day access to luxury hotel experiences from breathtaking pools and private beaches to deluxe spas and wellness escapes so people can enjoy incredible experiences without an overnight stay.

Our marketplace connects guests with 2500+ partner hotels and resorts including Ritz-Carlton Four Seasons Marriott Hilton and more. We’ve helped millions of people enjoy premium hospitality close to home making rest more mindful togetherness more meaningful and escape more accessible. The result is unforgettable experiences for guests and meaningful new revenue streams for partners.

Backed by some of the best consumer and growth investors including CRV Declaration Brian Kelly (The Points Guy) WME FJ Labs and more ResortPass is scaling a product people love while creating an entirely new way to experience hospitality.

We’ve demonstrated product-market fit at scale we’re the category leader growing fast and nearing profitability. Yet the team is still small enough that one exceptional engineer can have outsized influence across product technology and the business.

For context on scale: 5M+ customers served 250K+ monthly users and growing 800K app installs last year and hundreds of millions of dollars generated for our hotel partners.

We’re now entering a new phase of growth. We’re expanding into new categories deepening distribution and accelerating international expansion. Mobile is core to that next chapter.

We’re hiring a Founding iOS Engineer to build the next-generation ResortPass iOS experience from the ground up.

This is a rare opportunity to define the architecture engineering standards user experience and technical direction of a new native iOS app at a company with real scale strong momentum and meaningful product complexity. You will help shape how millions of users discover book and enjoy ResortPass on mobile across search property details booking account and post-booking experiences.

This is not a role for someone looking to simply implement tickets. We’re looking for an engineer with strong product instincts excellent engineering judgment and a high bar for craft someone who wants to help define what mobile should be at ResortPass for years to come.

You’ll work closely with Product Design Backend Data and company leadership. You’ll own critical decisions end-to-end from architecture and developer experience to app performance reliability analytics and release quality. You will also help shape our broader mobile app strategy and over time help build the iOS team and engineering culture around you.

This role will be in person at our energetic NYC headquarters. The base salary range is $190000 to $210000 plus meaningful equity commensurate with experience.

• Own the iOS app end-to-end across core marketplace flows including search discovery property details booking account and post-booking.
• Build a high-quality native iOS codebase from the ground up including architecture state management networking observability testing strategy CI/CD and release processes.
• Partner closely with Product and Design to build intuitive polished trustworthy mobile experiences with excellent attention to detail.
• Help define our mobile app strategy including where mobile should lead how it should differentiate from web and where it can create the most leverage for the business.
• Work with backend engineers to shape API contracts that make the app fast resilient and easy to evolve.
• Drive performance reliability and quality across startup time navigation rendering networking offline handling error states and app stability.
• Instrument the app thoughtfully so product and engineering teams can measure funnels understand behavior and iterate with confidence.
• Set the technical bar for iOS engineering through architecture decisions code reviews testing discipline and pragmatic engineering standards.
• Help define the long-term mobile platform strategy including how we scale the codebase development practices and team over time.
• Play a foundational leadership role in building the iOS function including helping attract mentor and eventually build a strong team around you.
• Contribute to product thinking not just implementation by bringing strong opinions on UX quality mobile-first opportunities and smart tradeoffs.

iOS: Swift SwiftUI UIKit
Backend: Ruby on Rails Node.js
Data: Postgres MongoDB
Infra / Obs: AWS Datadog
Testing: XCTest UI testing CI/CD pipelines

We encourage candidates to apply even if they don’t match every line below.

• 5+ years building production iOS applications with meaningful consumer-facing scale quality and complexity.
• Strong command of Swift and modern iOS development patterns.
• Experience building polished native experiences with strong attention to performance usability animation responsiveness and edge cases.
• You have led or heavily influenced architecture decisions for a substantial iOS codebase.
• You care deeply about product quality and can translate complex states and workflows into simple elegant user experiences.
• You know how to move fast without creating long-term fragility.
• You’re comfortable working closely with backend engineers on APIs data contracts and systems tradeoffs.
• You have strong engineering fundamentals: code quality testing discipline observability release reliability and operational ownership.
• You are energized by zero-to-one work and want real ownership not a narrow lane.
• You bring taste and judgment. You know when to insist on quality when to simplify and how to make smart tradeoffs in a fast-moving company.
• Ideally you’ve worked on high-quality consumer products at top engineering organizations or elite startups where the bar for craft and execution is exceptionally high.
• You’re a good person. Building a startup is hard. Being thoughtful low-ego and great to work with should not be. We care deeply about building an ambitious team with a strong culture. This retains and sharpens the values language from your current JD.

• You’ve helped launch a high-quality new iOS app that materially improves the ResortPass customer experience.
• You’ve established strong pragmatic foundations for the iOS codebase that the team can confidently build on.
• You’ve shipped multiple meaningful improvements to core mobile journeys with measurable impact on conversion performance stability and user satisfaction.
• You’re a trusted partner to Product Design and Backend and a key voice in mobile product direction.
• You’ve raised the bar on mobile engineering quality speed and product craftsmanship across the company.
• You’ve helped define what a great mobile engineering culture looks like at ResortPass and laid the foundation for building the team around you.

Benefits:

• Health Dental & Vision — We're deeply invested in the health and well-being of our team and are proud to contribute to the monthly premiums of these insurance plans.
• Stock Option Plan — We offer employees the opportunity to become part-owners in our mission. Let’s redefine what it means to be a guest together.
• 401k plan — Save for your future with a 410k plan offering.
• Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO) — Enjoy life away from work to be inspired and fully recharge with unlimited paid time off.
• Annual ResortPass credit — Our mission is to bring delight and relaxation to people around the world; including our employees! Access private beaches deluxe saunas awesome pools and much more with your annual credit.

What We Do

A luxurious vacation used to mean traveling far away. With ResortPass you can escape without leaving town. We make it possible to enjoy day access to luxury hotel amenities — from crystalline pools and private beaches to deluxe spas top fitness centers and more — at leading hotels right in your own neighborhood. ResortPass partners with over 2000 world-class hotels and resorts including Ritz-Carlton Four Seasons Westin and Fairmont. Since our founding in 2016 we’ve connected more than 5 million locals and travelers to premium resort experiences — making rest more mindful togetherness more meaningful and escape more accessible by bringing luxury into everyday life. In November 2022 we raised a $40M Series B to continue expanding our marketplace and reimagine the way people access hospitality.

Why Work With Us

ResortPass makes luxury hotel amenities accessible without an overnight stay partnering with 2000+ top hotels like Ritz-Carlton and Four Seasons. Backed by $40M Series B funding we’re scaling fast and shaping how people experience travel leisure and connection.

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