Mobile Engineering Team Lead

RethinkFirst

Mobile Engineering Team Lead at RethinkFirst, overseeing native and cross-platform mobile app development across iOS and Android with hands-on engineering responsibilities.

Posted 6/11/2026full-timeRemote • Alabama, Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AndroidAWSCloudFirebaseGradleiOSJUnitKotlinSwift

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead a team of iOS and Android engineers through the full delivery lifecycle: scoping, estimation, architecture, implementation, testing, release, and post-release monitoring.
Own the mobile technical roadmap, including platform strategy, dependency management, CI/CD pipelines, release cadence, and store submission processes for both Apple App Store and Google Play.
Set and enforce engineering standards: code review discipline, automated testing coverage (unit, integration, UI/E2E), crash-free session targets, performance budgets, and accessibility compliance.
Drive a test-first culture. You are responsible for defining what "done" means and ensuring the team meets it. Expect to defend coverage thresholds and reject work that does not.
Operate as an AI-first engineer and require the same of your team. Use Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or equivalent for code generation, refactoring, test scaffolding, and review.
Establish team norms for prompt patterns, model selection, review of AI-generated output, and where AI tooling should and should not be trusted.
Partner with product, design, backend, QA, and DevOps to translate ambiguous requirements into concrete, shippable work.
Coach and grow engineers through 1:1s, pairing, structured feedback, and performance reviews. Hire when needed.
Be the escalation point for production incidents affecting mobile clients.

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 5 years building production mobile applications.
2+ years in a tech lead, staff, or engineering management role with direct responsibility for delivery outcomes.
Strong, demonstrable expertise in iOS development: Swift, SwiftUI and/or UIKit, Combine or async/await, Xcode toolchain, App Store submission, TestFlight, code signing, and provisioning.
Strong, demonstrable expertise in Android development: Kotlin, Jetpack Compose and/or the traditional View system, Coroutines/Flow, Android Studio, Gradle, Play Console, and Play Store submission.
Deep understanding of mobile delivery: branching strategies, CI/CD (GitHub Actions, or equivalent), staged rollouts, feature flagging, OTA configuration, and crash/analytics tooling (Crashlytics, Sentry, Firebase, Datadog, or comparable).
Deep understanding of mobile testing strategy: XCTest, XCUITest, Espresso, JUnit, snapshot testing, contract testing, and device-farm or cloud-device testing (BrowserStack, Firebase Test Lab, AWS Device Farm).
Active, daily use of AI-assisted development tooling (Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, Windsurf, or equivalent) with an opinion on where it accelerates work and where it introduces risk.
Excellent written and verbal communication. You can write a clear technical design doc, run a productive standup, give direct feedback without theatrics, and explain trade-offs to non-engineers.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Generous health, dental, & vision benefits package
Flexible paid time off
11 paid company holidays
401k + matching
Parental leave
Access to our award-winning RethinkCare platform supporting neurodiversity in the workplace through parental success, professional resilience, and personal wellbeing.

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Hard Skills & Tools

iOS developmentSwiftSwiftUIUIKitCombineasync/awaitAndroid developmentKotlinJetpack ComposeCI/CD

Soft Skills

leadershipcoachingcommunicationteam collaborationfeedbackproblem-solvingdecision-makingperformance reviewsescalation managementculture building