Founding Engineer, Consumer Apps

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and launch Placer's inaugural consumer applications on Android and iOS, along with scalable backend services.

• Take ownership of the consumer journey from onboarding and permissions to engagement and retention.

• Create permission and consent workflows that comply with App Store and Google Play regulations.

• Implement tracking for attribution, installation, registration, permission grants, engagement, and retention funnels.

• Manage analytics, A/B testing, experimental design, and funnel reporting.

• Quickly deploy small experiments, oversee releases, and handle store submissions and review feedback.

• Utilize AI coding, design, and testing tools as the standard approach to development.

• Integrate Placer's current data collection technologies while ensuring privacy standards are upheld.

• Establish fraud prevention and abuse controls for device integrity, location spoofing, emulators, and duplicate accounts.

• Make strategic technical choices regarding stack, architecture, and vendors; oversee monitoring, alerting, reliability, and cost in production.

• Assist in recruiting and mentoring future engineers and develop team practices.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline, or equivalent hands-on experience.

• Over 6 years of software engineering experience, with at least 4 years focused on B2C products.

• Proven track record of launching consumer-facing mobile applications for the general market.

• Strong enthusiasm for user experience, with demonstrated consumer projects to showcase screen-by-screen.

• Proficient in launching initial versions that may be imperfect, analyzing data, and discarding underperforming work.

• Expertise in AI development tools, such as coding agents and AI-assisted design, testing, and code review.

• Experience taking at least one consumer app from concept to launch as a founding or early engineer, and scaling it post-launch.

• In-depth knowledge of one native platform: Android/Kotlin or iOS/Swift, with working familiarity of the other; or substantial cross-platform experience with native modules.

• Experience integrating SDKs into consumer mobile applications.

• Backend experience in building APIs and data services on a cloud platform, preferably Python and GCP.

• Direct experience with App Store and Google Play review processes, including data-safety declarations and policy denials.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to identify and raise risks early.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary

• Excellent benefits

• Fully remote

• Medical coverage

• Dental coverage

• Vision coverage

• Flexible time off

• 401K

• Equity awards for certain roles

• Global remote workforce

• Drug-free workplace