Lead Mobile Engineer

Workshop Ventures

$120K — $150K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in building production mobile applications, specifically with TypeScript and React Native.
  • Proven track record of shipping and maintaining apps on both the App Store and Play Store.
  • Strong debugging skills on both iOS and Android platforms.
  • Experience in making design and product-level decisions for mobile applications.
  • Willingness to work in-person in Austin and eventually grow a development team.
  • Familiarity with automated UI testing processes.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the development and scaling of our React Native/Expo app, deploying it to both major app stores.
  • Own the geolocation and mapping experience essential for ranchers in cattle management.
  • Design and implement robust data flows and offline/synchronization features with back-end systems.
  • Integrate app functionality with wearable hardware using BLE/NFC technologies.
  • Debug and optimize app performance for both iOS and Android devices.
  • Leverage AI-assisted development to streamline coding while ensuring high quality and readability.
  • Monitor and enhance app performance metrics such as load times, responsiveness, and battery efficiency.

Benefits

  • Meaningful equity package to share in the company's success.
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance coverage.
  • A competitive 401k retirement plan with a matching contribution.
  • Paid family and medical leave policies to support work-life balance.
  • Unlimited paid time off (PTO) for flexible working.
  • Transparent communication regarding investor and company updates with all employees.
  • Opportunities for ownership and taking on significant responsibilities.
Full Job Description
About the role

As the Lead Mobile Developer, you'll own and scale the React Native application that serves as the main touchpoint for ranchers to move and monitor their cattle. This is a high-impact role at the intersection of geospatial data, livestock operations, and connected hardware. Performance and reliability here directly affect the animals, land, and livelihoods of our customers.

We're an early-stage startup. You'll have high ownership in what you build and a real hand in where the product goes. You'll own our mapbox-powered maps, the user experience, and the data flows that keep everything in sync with our backend. Over time, you'll grow and lead a mobile team.

What You'll Do
  • Lead, build and scale our React Native / Expo app from an early stage, shipping to both the App Store and Play Store
  • Own the mapping and geolocation experience ranchers use to manage cattle in the field
  • Design the data flows and offline/sync behavior that keep the app in lockstep with our backend and connected devices
  • Integrate with our wearable hardware (BLE/NFC)
  • Debug and optimize across both iOS and Android
  • Use AI-assisted development to move fast - while verifying your own work and not sacrificing code quality or readability
  • Monitor and optimize app performance - load times, responsiveness, and battery efficiency in the field, where ranchers rely on the app on long days away from a charger


Requirements
  • 5+ years building production mobile applications, with strong experience in typescript React Native apps.
  • Shipped and maintained apps on both the App Store and Play Store
  • Comfortable debugging natively on both iOS and Android
  • Experience driving design & product-level decisions
  • Willing to work in-person in Austin and to eventually build and lead a team
  • Experience in automated UI testing


Nice to have
  • Expo
  • Mapping/geolocation experience (mapbox specifically)
  • BLE / NFC experience
  • Hardware integration background

Note: Even if you don't have all of the above and still think you're an excellent candidate, please reach out. We're always open to great people with core skillsets who are willing to push and learn.

Benefits
  • Meaningful equity package
  • Health, dental, vision insurance
  • Competitive 401k match
  • Paid family and medical leave
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Transparency - we overshare all investor and company updates with everyone
  • Ownership and responsibility


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