Senior Principal Engineer (iOS)

About us

We are champions of rail, inspired to build a greener, more sustainable https://www.thetrainline.com/terms/sustainability-faqs future of travel. Trainline enables millions of travellers to find and book the best value tickets across carriers, fares, and journey options through our highly rated mobile app, website, and B2B partner channels. 

Great journeys start with Trainline 🚄 

Now Europe’s number 1 downloaded rail app, with over 135 million monthly visits and £6.3 billion in annual ticket sales, we collaborate with 270+ rail and coach companies in over 40 countries. We want to create a world where travel is as simple, seamless, eco-friendly and affordable as it should be. 

Today, we're a FTSE 250 company driven by our incredible team of over 1,000 Trainliners from 50+ nationalities, based across London, Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Edinburgh and Madrid. With our focus on growth in the UK and Europe, now is the perfect time to join us on this high-speed journey. 

Introducing the Trainline App Platform Team 👋
The App Platform team provides the foundations that enable our mobile engineering teams to build, evolve and deliver exceptional customer experiences at scale. Working across iOS and Android, the team develops the shared capabilities, tooling, frameworks and engineering practices that help product teams move faster while maintaining high standards of quality, performance and reliability.

As our Senior Principal Engineer (iOS), you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of iOS engineering at Trainline. While embedded within the App Platform team, your influence will extend across the wider technology organisation as you define the long-term technical strategy for iOS alongside peers across Android, Web and Architecture. You'll establish a cohesive cross-platform architectural vision, balancing platform-specific innovation with opportunities to simplify solutions, increase consistency and avoid unnecessary duplication. This is a highly ...