[Hiring] Mobile Principal Software Engineer @Dscout

Role Description

At Dscout, we’re building the most flexible and powerful UX research platform on the market—trusted by the world’s top brands in finance, healthcare, consumer goods, and tech. Our tools help teams deeply understand the humans behind their products, so they can build better ones. We are expanding our smart and driven team and would love for you to join us.

You are a Mobile Principal Software Engineer who will lead our mobile team and evolve it to meet the shifting demand of a full AI-first platform. You're deeply hands-on with AI coding agents, and you've used them to ship serious work. You're comfortable architecting a thin mobile client backed by a powerful API and contributing to our Python backend. You'll shape our participant experience across mobile with heavy influence on the web too.

You're deeply product-focused, energized by solving business problems, and you partner with Product and Design as a peer. You know when to ship a scrappy prototype versus when to invest in a foundation built to last. You can hold multiple projects in your head at once, spotting where they'll collide or share a chance for reuse.

You bring Principal/Staff-level scope as a product engineer with 10+ years of experience. You have a proven track record of leading technical improvements and mentoring other developers. You thrive setting your own direction with minimal input while staying aligned to company goals.

Most of all, you're energized by the prospect of doing in months what used to take years.

Qualifications

• Significant experience as a mobile software engineer with Principal/Staff-level scope.
• Experience with iOS and Android, and a willingness to work outside the mobile ecosystem.
• Hands-on experience with AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or similar).
• Experience in system architecture to supplement mobile experience.
• A proven track record of leading, mentoring, and growing engineers.
• Expertise with cloud-based SaaS architectures and evolutionary design.
• At home with agile, DevOps, CI/CD, observability/tracing, and data/metrics-based decision making.

Requirements

• Lead our mobile team and its continued maturity and evolution in this AI-native space.
• Stand up an AI-native development process for the mobile team.
• Drive a thin-client architecture for the participant experience.
• Contribute Python to our AI backend service when mobile needs new capabilities.
• Set our participant API and broader participant platform direction.
• Spend about 70% of your time supporting your product team; the other 30% on self-directed leadership tasks.
• Drive continuous process improvement across the mobile team and its partner teams.
• Mentor other engineers and help evolve the Engineering org.
• Apply a DevOps mindset to improve the Continuous Delivery pipeline.
• Be involved in security and compliance efforts for the organization.

Benefits

• A strong and competitive compensation package with a built-in bonus and equity program.
• An incredible and progressive benefits package, including flexible PTO, 15 company holidays, and 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
• 401k match and an education stipend to support your growth & development.
• A remote work stipend.
• A company that is open and transparent with our team.

Company Description

Dscout is a team of passionate, empathetic, and curious professionals. As a recognized leader in the Forrester Wave, we’re at the cutting edge of experience research technology. We prioritize learning, sharing, and building, and we deeply value being a diverse and inclusive team.