[Hiring] Lead Mobile Developer @Leap Tools

Role Description

We are looking for an experienced mobile engineer who cares deeply about building exceptional consumer products. This role will have the autonomy and ownership of an early-stage product team, backed by the technology, resources, and reach of an established company.

• Lead the architecture and development of a greenfield iOS and Android consumer application from its earliest stages through launch and scale.
• Act as one of the foundational builders of the product, taking broad ownership across technology, product execution, and the decisions required to move from concept to a successful consumer application.
• Operate with a high degree of autonomy, rapidly prototyping ideas, validating technical approaches, making pragmatic tradeoffs, and turning ambiguous product opportunities into shipped experiences.
• Help make foundational technology decisions, including the appropriate balance between React Native/Expo and native Swift/Kotlin development.
• Build a polished, responsive, and highly intuitive consumer experience with a strong focus on performance, usability, interaction design, and attention to detail.
• Partner closely with Product and Design to translate ambitious product ideas into exceptional mobile experiences.
• Contribute beyond implementation by helping shape product direction, identifying opportunities, challenging assumptions, and using customer feedback and real-world usage to improve the product.
• Establish mobile engineering standards, architecture patterns, development workflows, testing strategies, observability, and release processes.
• Design and implement core mobile capabilities, including camera and photo library interactions, image-heavy experiences, gestures, animations, sharing, notifications, deep linking, and application lifecycle management.
• Identify areas where native platform APIs or implementations provide meaningful advantages and build or guide the development of native modules where appropriate.
• Own application performance, reliability, startup time, memory usage, rendering performance, and behaviour across a wide range of iOS and Android devices.
• Work closely with backend, computer vision, and AI teams to integrate Leap Tools' existing capabilities into a seamless consumer experience.
• Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, code reviews, prototyping, and hands-on development.
• Mentor engineers and help build out a high-performing mobile engineering team as the product grows.
• Help shape our long-term mobile engineering strategy and engineering culture.
• Participate in hiring and help define the skills and capabilities required as the team expands.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development experience, with significant experience building and operating production mobile applications.
• Strong experience building consumer-facing applications for iOS and/or Android.
• Demonstrated experience taking a mobile or consumer product from its earliest stages through launch.
• Experience leading the architecture and delivery of significant mobile products or major application features.
• Strong experience with React Native and the surrounding mobile ecosystem, and/or deep expertise with native iOS or Android development.
• Strong understanding of mobile application performance, rendering, memory management, networking, application lifecycle, and device constraints.
• Experience with mobile-specific capabilities such as cameras, photo libraries, gestures, animations, push notifications, deep links, and application distribution.
• Strong product instincts and exceptional attention to interaction details, responsiveness, and overall user experience.
• Proven ability to make high-leverage technical and architectural decisions in ambiguous environments.
• An entrepreneurial approach to product development.
• Strong focus on execution and delivering product to users.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• A leadership mindset.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving environment where experimentation and adaptability are expected.
• Familiarity with our exact stack is preferred but not required.

Benefits

• Remote-first company that encourages employees to work from where they're most productive.
• Tight-knit teams to cultivate an ownership mentality.
• Work anywhere in the world for up to 3 months.
• Parental leave program.
• Work-from-home stipend.
• Your birthday (and our company's birthday) is a day off!

Company Description

At Leap Tools, we are building the world's most advanced solutions for the interior décor industry. With customers in 80+ countries, our clientele includes Fortune 500 companies such as Home Depot, local retailers such as Alexanian's, and everything in between. We have been recognized as one of the fastest-growing tech companies by Deloitte for multiple years in a row.