Principal Mobile Engineer

Role: Principal Mobile Engineer
Duration: 12+ Months

Location :This position is open only to candidates who currently reside in one of the following approved locations: Los Angeles, CA

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and development of native iOS applications, ensuring high performance, reliability, and scalability across devices.
• Provide technical direction and code-level leadership for Android development to ensure cross-platform consistency and quality.
• Define and enforce mobile engineering standards, best practices, and reusable components across the mobile ecosystem.
• Implement on-device and cloudbased ML capabilities using modern mobile and backend frameworks.
• Architect and develop native iOS applications using Swift and SwiftUI, ensuring performance, scalability, and security.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Product, Design, Backend Engineering, and QA to deliver seamless mobile experiences.
• Lead technical initiatives to improve mobile CI/CD pipelines, crash analytics, and performance monitoring.
• Implement observability and monitoring solutions using tools like Firebase and Xcode Instruments.
• Mentor junior mobile engineers and promote best practices across iOS and Android development.
• Partner with business stakeholders to translate product requirements into scalable mobile solutions.
• Operate in an AI-driven SDLC environment, leveraging tools like GitHub Copilot and Xcode AI integrations
• Implementing and managing Datadog dashboards, Google and Adobe analytics. monitors, and alerts for mobile applications

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of mobile development experience, with 3+ years in a technical leadership role focused on iOS.
• Expert-level proficiency in Swift, Swift UI, Combine, and UIKit.
• Working knowledge of Kotlin, and Android architecture components.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, Git, Fastlane, and Firebase.
• Familiarity with App Store and Google Play deployment processes, including TestFlight and internal testing tracks.
• Experience operating in cloud connected mobile architecture (Azure or AWS).
• Strong understanding of RESTful APIs, OAuth2, and mobile security best practices.
• Strong understanding of accessibility standards such as WCAG and ARIA and be able to implement inclusive design practices to ensure mobile applications are usable by people of all abilities.
• Experience in implementing and managing Datadog dashboards, Google and Adobe analytics. monitors, and alerts for mobile applications.
• Experience with automated testing, unit testing, TDD, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Development Tools: Xcode, Android Studio, Github, Jira, Confluence, Figma.
• Familiarity with mobile analytics, crash reporting, and user behavior tracking.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, agile environment with AI-enhanced workflows.
• Strong Project Organization Skill with budgeting, scope
• Strong Communication Skill

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in fintech or consumer-facing mobile platforms.
• Familiarity with operational domains such as mobile payments, identity verification, and push notification systems.
• Contributions to open-source mobile libraries or technical publications.