This role requires 1 day onsite each week in Mission District, SF.
Our client, an innovative EdTech adaptive learning company has the main purpose of making education enjoyable and personalized in order to improve the way children learn. They are not seeking a senior Lead Mobile Engineer to help produce fun, beautifully designed games that teach millions of kids math, reading, social studies science, and more!
They are currently a fully web-based edtech platform and are now looking to extend their offering to Mobile and Tablet on iOS and Android. In order to lead efforts in this initiative, they are looking for a Lead Mobile Engineer to take over their existing mobile development for a cross-platform mobile application.
The role will start off as hands-on React Native development. They're currently working with an app development agency in order to help get them to launch. As the Lead Engineer, you would be responsible for leading that team to the finish line and taking over completely as the project progresses to launch. Once the app experience proves a success, they will be growing the internal app team significantly, and you will be responsible for leading both the hiring of the mobile team and the mobile team itself when that time arrives.
As the first mobile engineer, you will be defining both the way engineers develop mobile apps as well as raising the bar on the mobile experience for their stakeholders. This is an ambitious new product line and you’ll help them win by being a multi-faceted engineer who’s excited to solve hard technical and product problems.
They are a small team with a huge bias for simplicity. Representing such a key role, you will be able to take on a large amount of responsibility over a diverse range of interesting challenges and build out the company culture with us as we grow.
TECH STACK
• React Native (mobile)
• React, Typescript (frontend)
• Golang (backend)
• AWS (infrastructure)
• Postgres (DB)
YOU MAY BE A FIT FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU...
• You love the idea of creating a game-like experience for learning.
• You are an expert in your field, and you have created and designed scalable end-to-end mobile applications.
• You have significant expertise with React Native and experience working across the tech stack with Android and iOS build processes.
• You have led teams and know the processes and systems it takes to create a world-class app experience across a variety of platforms.
• You enjoy discussions around the technical direction of the product with your team members.
• You thrive in a collaborative environment involving different functions, stakeholders, and subject matter experts.
• You are able to work at least one day per week in-office at our downtown SF location.
IDEAL CANDIDATE
• Ability to communicate effectively and work in small teams with minimal supervision
• Overall engineering experience of 6+ years with 4+ in Mobile App Development
• Has successfully built Apps from the ground up and launched on both Android and iOS
• Has the experience to turn ideas into reality with the help of a collaborative and excited team
• Has experience working with game engines such as Unity, or Godot, as depending on the direction of app development such technologies will be in your purview in the future.
• Has built and lead teams that make rock-solid mobile and tablet applications
• Has experience developing Native Mobile Applications utilizing technologies such as Swift, Java, Kotlin, Obj-C, etc..
DOE: 200k - 250k+ (flexibility for the right candidate) + performance bonus + benefits
