Senior Mobile Software Architect

Responsibilities

• Define shared architectural patterns and modular design systems across native iOS, Android, and cross-platform integrations.
• Design scalable personalization and content delivery pipelines for high-traffic media experiences.
• Lead technical strategy, architecture, technology evaluations, and standards across multi-team engineering initiatives.
• Conduct architecture proposals, code reviews, and governance focused on system design, security, privacy, and quality.
• Architect CDN caching, cloud infrastructure, compliance, and cost-optimization solutions.
• Participate in deployments across QA, UAT, and production environments and join the developer on-call rotation.
• Author resilient code and reusable libraries while mentoring, onboarding, training, and interviewing software engineering staff.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of progressive software engineering experience, including architecture leadership in complex multi-team platform environments.
• Deep native mobile architecture expertise across iOS and Android using Swift, Kotlin, Java, or Objective-C.
• Experience designing high-traffic distributed systems, RESTful or GraphQL APIs, and client-server integrations.
• Experience with media playback, streaming protocols, CDN configurations, and AWS or GCP cloud infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with GDPR, CPRA, cloud cost optimization, version control, continuous integration, and automated testing frameworks.
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent practical work experience demonstrating equivalent technical architecture capability.
• Preferred experience includes Go or PHP backend systems, event-driven or microservice architectures, edge media caches, relational databases or SQL, and open-source contributions.
• Strong technical governance, communication, mentoring, code quality, and production incident diagnostic skills.

Benefits

• Remote-permitted work from an approved US location, on-site at the Washington, D.C. facility, or a combination, with occasional travel potentially required.
• Full-time, exempt employment.
• Benefits for eligible regular full-time employees include health and wellness options, paid time off, financial well-being programs, medical, dental, vision, life and accidental death and dismemberment, disability, and voluntary retirement savings plans.