Senior Software Engineer - Mobile
Read AI · Seattle, WA · 2 mo ago
HybridEngineering$190k–$210k/yrFull-time
Responsibilities
- Own major feature areas end-to-end across iOS (Swift, SwiftUI) and Android (Kotlin, Jetpack Compose) - from technical design through implementation, testing, rollout, and iteration.
- Help lead the development of new mobile features and product improvements, driving execution and aligning partners on scope, tradeoffs, and timelines.
- Build and enhance real-time audio capture and processing across platforms, leveraging AVFoundation (iOS) and Android audio frameworks to ensure high-quality recordings and accurate transcription.
- Optimize app performance, reliability, battery usage, and latency to deliver smooth, real-time AI-powered transcription and summarization.
- Design and implement AI-powered mobile interactions, including chat-based experiences that let users explore, query, and take action on meeting reports and insights.
- Partner closely with product, design, and ML teams to prototype and ship novel mobile UX patterns for conversational AI, making complex information feel intuitive, fast, and useful.
- Evolve mobile architecture patterns, state management, and shared engineering standards to support rapid iteration and maintainability at scale.
- Establish and uphold best practices for code quality, testing, release hygiene, observability, and performance profiling across both platforms.
- Implement strong security, privacy, data handling, and offline-first support to ensure user trust and reliable cross-device experiences.
- Mentor and support other engineers through design reviews, pairing, and code review, helping grow technical skills and product instincts across the team.
- Contribute to hiring by defining role expectations, participating in interviews, and helping raise the overall bar for the mobile team.
Requirements
- 8+ years of development experience.
- Strong experience building and shipping production mobile apps on iOS (Swift/SwiftUI) and/or Android (Kotlin/Jetpack Compose).
- Solid understanding of mobile architecture patterns, state management, and building maintainable UI at scale.
- Experience with real-time audio capture and processing, using AVFoundation (iOS) and/or Android audio APIs.
- Familiarity with background execution, offline storage, and syncing data reliably across devices and network conditions.
- Experience integrating mobile apps with RESTful APIs, WebSockets, and event-driven backends.
- Strong product instincts - you care deeply about customer workflows and build experiences that are fast, intuitive, and reliable.
- Strong communication skills - the ability to collaborate across product, design, and other engineering teams and drive alignment on tradeoffs.