Lead Software Engineer – Mobile

Key Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical leadership for the Project Charlie mobile application platform from initial design through launch monitoring, and ongoing evolution.
• Design, implement, and maintain mobile applications, backend services, and supporting APIs.
• Own and influence end-to-end solution architecture across mobile, cloud services, enterprise integrations, and platform dependencies.
• Lead technical integration with internal systems, ensuring reliability, scalability, and long-term maintainability.
• Design and integrate IoT, grid-edge, and device-generated data into backend services and customer-facing mobile experiences.
• Partner closely with internal IT, security, and platform teams to ensure compliance with technology standards, privacy, security, and regulatory requirements.
• Serve as the technical authority for architecture decisions, design trade-offs, and implementation approaches.
• Guide and mentor engineers—internal and vendor—through design reviews, code reviews, and day-to-day technical leadership.
• Provide technical oversight and governance for external engineering vendors and contracted partners, ensuring quality and architectural consistency.
• Contribute to delivery planning, dependency management, and mitigation of technical risk in partnership with Product and Program leadership.
• Help define the engineering team structure and hiring approach, participating in hiring, onboarding, and development of a small internal team over time.

Minimum Experience

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with demonstrated technical leadership
• Strong background in Mobile application development (iOS, Android, and/or cross-platform frameworks)
• Backend services, APIs, and cloud platforms system and solution architecture experience
• Experience designing or integrating systems that consume IoT, sensor, or device-generated data
• Proven ability to lead teams and influence without owning all implementation details
• Experience working with external vendors or consulting firms

Desired Experience

• Experience building and scaling customer-facing digital products
• Experience with event-driven, or near-real-time data architectures
• Experience supporting products through launch and post-launch iteration

Desired Characteristics

• Trusted technical leader with strong architectural judgment and a pragmatic approach to building scalable platforms
• Effective people and partner manager who builds strong teams, collaborates well across IT and Product, and holds external vendors accountable
• Accountable, adaptable operator who drives delivery through ambiguity, anticipates risks, and communicates clearly in a regulated environment

Skills

• mobile
• platforms
• leadership
• technical leadership
• android
• design
• application
• software
• architecture
• teams
• ios
• vendors