About This Role
Mobile application development is the core of this engineering role, focusing on architecture, performance, reliability, and API integration. This position is for an engineer who can work independently, make sound technical decisions, contribute to architecture, and mentor other developers.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-performance mobile applications for Android and/or iOS
- Own mobile features end-to-end, from technical design and implementation through testing, release, and monitoring
- Design and implement robust mobile architecture and reusable components
- Work closely with backend engineers to integrate REST APIs, WebSockets, push notifications, deep linking, and real-time services
- Optimize application performance, including startup time, memory usage, network performance, battery consumption, and UI responsiveness
- Build reliable applications with strong error handling, observability, logging, analytics, and monitoring
- Establish and improve automated testing, CI/CD, build, release, and deployment workflows
- Collaborate with Product, Design, Backend, QA, and other engineering teams to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions
- Participate in technical design reviews and contribute to engineering standards and best practices
- Identify technical risks and proactively improve application stability, maintainability, and developer productivity
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers and contribute to the overall growth of the mobile engineering team
- Stay current with evolving mobile technologies, development frameworks, and platform capabilities
Requirements
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
- Ability to take end-to-end ownership of complex mobile initiatives
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Ability to make pragmatic technical trade-offs between scalability, performance, reliability, and delivery speed
- Experience working in cross-functional teams with Product, Design, Backend, QA, and Engineering leadership
- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and raise engineering standards
- Strong focus on writing clean, maintainable, testable, and production-ready code
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
Nice to have:
- Experience building AI-powered or real-time consumer applications
- Experience with WebSocket-based real-time communication
- Experience with performance initiatives involving battery, networking, lifecycle, or background execution
- Experience building mobile analytics, experimentation, or user-journey tracking systems
