Job Summary:
ResortPass is redefining luxury hotel experiences by providing day access to premium hospitality services. They are seeking a Founding iOS Engineer to build a next-generation iOS app from the ground up, defining the architecture and user experience while working closely with various teams to enhance the app's performance and reliability.
Responsibilities:
• 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.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 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.
Company:
ResortPass offers day access to luxury hotel amenities in their own neighborhoods. Founded in 2016, the company is headquartered in New York, USA, with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.
