The Role: How You'll Make an Impact

Team: Mobile Engineering | Reports to: Director of Mobile Engineering| Location: Remote-friendly (US/Canada, PST hours)

You'll be a leader on engineering development for our mobile apps. That means the iOS and Android apps that keep millions of devices humming in real homes.

You’re a great fit if you thrive in environments of rapid learning and delivery.  You’re self-motivated and have demonstrated strong ownership and self-direction.  You strive to understand the business of what we are trying to accomplish and push engineering solutions to provide customer value.  As a small company where AI-assisted development is core to how we work, we expect this role to ramp up quickly, use AI fluently in their day-to-day, and deliver broadly across our mobile systems.

Working across Mobile, and partnering closely with Product, you'll lead feature development, set technical direction, and mentor engineers.

What You'll Do

First 90 Days: Learn & Contribute

• Review existing codebase and identify immediate technical improvements.
• Ship meaningful code to production and begin to establish credibility with the engineering team.

First 6 Months: Drive Real Impact

• Technical Leadership: Lead delivery of features, and jump into production issues or improvements, debug cross-platform problems spanning mobile/firmware/backend
• Cross-Pillar Ramp: Build context on how the full mobile platform fits together. Contribute meaningfully to your team’s initiatives — shipping features, improving platform reliability, and driving daily app engagement
• Architectural Ownership: Understand problem spaces, partner with stakeholders to shape architectural problems and solutions, and bring proposals to Mobile Strategy and Engineering Forum meetings.
• Engineer Mentorship: Provide feedback and support for other engineers. Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with Product, Design, QA, and other stakeholders to scope, plan, and rapidly ship features
• AI Integration: Champion AI-assisted development practices within your team — not just using the tools yourself, but creating the conditions where others adopt them faster and go deeper.

First Year: Transform & Scale

• Strategic Impact: Drive business strategy through mobile initiatives and shape the roadmap across the mobile organization — contributing to decisions that benefit all pillars and the people who use Hatch every night.
• Raise the AI Bar: Serve as a critical evaluator and implementor of our AI strategy.. Help define what "good" looks like so that as new engineers join, there's a standard to onboard into, not just an assumption.

What You'll Bring

• Deep Mobile Craft: You’ve spent 6+ years building mobile apps that matter—whether in Swift/SwiftUI or Kotlin/Jetpack Compose. You care about code quality, reliability, and making great experiences for real people
• Technical Leadership: You love leading by example—writing production code, unblocking others, leading architectural decision-making, and helping teams make smart, pragmatic decisions. You’re as comfortable setting direction as you are rolling up your sleeves
• Mentorship: You believe great teams make great products. You’ve mentored other engineers, built trust, and created environments where people do their best work
• Collaborative Energy: You thrive in cross-functional spaces—partnering with Product, Design, and other engineering leaders to turn ideas into reality. You communicate clearly and lead with empathy
• AI Curiosity: You’re genuinely excited about what AI unlocks—how it can make us more effective builders and open new ways to serve our customers
• Broad Technical Reach: You bring experience with modern mobile tooling, CI/CD, testing, and cloud services—and you’re always eager to explore new technologies, tech stacks, and approaches