Founding iOS Engineer

About the company 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 2,500+ 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. Why ResortPass (Why now) 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. About the role 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 $190,000 to $210,000 , plus meaningful equity, commensurate with experience. What you’ll do 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 thr