[Hiring] Senior / Tech Lead Mobile App Developer @Injective Labs

Role Description

As a Senior / Tech Lead Mobile App Developer, you will take technical ownership of our mobile application and help build the next generation of DeFi trading experiences.

• Be a hands-on technical leader, primarily working on our React Native application.
• Own key architectural decisions, engineering standards, performance, reliability, and the overall technical direction of the mobile product.
• Work closely with Product, Design, Backend Engineering, and other engineers to turn complex trading functionality into fast, reliable, and intuitive mobile experiences.
• Operate with a high degree of autonomy, make sound technical decisions, and raise the engineering bar across the team.
• Move between architecture and hands-on implementation, reviewing and improving others' work, troubleshooting complex production issues, and driving projects from technical design through release.
• Be passionate about building exceptional mobile products and excited about the future of decentralized finance.

Responsibilities

• Take technical ownership of our React Native mobile application, driving its architecture, scalability, performance, reliability, and long-term maintainability across iOS and Android.
• Lead the full engineering lifecycle of mobile features, from technical design and hands-on implementation through testing, release, monitoring, and iteration.
• Build complex and high-impact functionality using React Native and TypeScript while defining and maintaining engineering standards, patterns, and best practices in the codebase and team.
• Make key technical and architectural decisions, balancing product requirements, development speed, scalability, and technical debt.
• Proactively identify and drive improvements to the mobile architecture and development processes.
• Provide technical guidance to other engineers through code reviews, design discussions, pair programming, and knowledge sharing.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Backend Engineering to translate product requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Own mobile release processes and application health, including App Store and Google Play releases, monitoring, issue triage, and investigation of complex bugs and production incidents.
• Stay up to date with modern mobile development practices and evaluate new technologies, frameworks, and tools when relevant.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant experience building production mobile applications.
• Experience building fintech or trading applications.
• Experience with blockchain, Web3, or DeFi.
• Strong professional experience with React Native, React, and TypeScript.
• Experience owning or leading the technical development of a production mobile application.
• Strong understanding of mobile application architecture, design patterns, state management, performance, testing, and maintainability.
• Experience making architectural decisions and driving technical projects from design through production.
• Strong experience integrating mobile applications with backend APIs and services.
• Experience with Node.js.
• Strong experience working with REST APIs.
• Experience with real-time data and communication technologies such as gRPC, Server-Sent Events (SSE), or WebSockets is a strong plus.
• Experience debugging complex production issues and optimizing mobile application performance.
• Experience with mobile CI/CD, testing, monitoring, and release processes.
• Experience publishing and maintaining applications on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
• Ability to provide technical direction and constructive feedback to other engineers.
• Comfortable taking ownership and operating autonomously in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to communicate technical decisions clearly with both engineering and non-engineering stakeholders.
• Must be fluent in English.
• Based in the EU or New York timezone.

Nice to have

• Understanding of iOS and Android platforms, including platform-specific behaviors, limitations, and development best practices.
• Experience designing or scaling mobile applications with a significant production user base.
• Experience working on products involving real-time market data, order execution, charts, or other performance-sensitive financial interfaces.
• Previous experience acting as a Tech Lead or providing technical leadership within a mobile engineering team.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and INJ token award.
• Remote-friendly work environment with flexible hours.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Equipment.
• Home Office Stipend.
• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge blockchain technology in the finance industry.
• Collaborative team culture with opportunities for professional growth and development.
• Global team meet ups.