Staff Software Engineer I, Mobile

Responsibilities

• Own team architecture, provide system-wide design guidance, decompose architectures into components, and make tradeoffs across competing requirements.
• Design efficient, stable, extensible systems with strategic vision, non-functional requirements awareness, and future product flexibility.
• Use AI to validate architectural patterns and decisions and design AI-augmented workflows such as code generation and incident analysis.
• Establish team guardrails for secure, compliant, correct, and responsible AI usage.
• Drive engineering best practices, eliminate technical debt, and prepare the codebase for future roadmap requirements.
• Influence and execute large cross-team projects while anticipating and removing delivery barriers.
• Partner with design on a mobile design system and UX heuristics.
• Own mobile CI/CD, the app release process, and SDK/framework upgrades.
• Create strategies and objectives from organizational vision, resolve ambiguity, and build shared understanding.
• Share architectural improvements across the technology organization and build broad implementation buy-in.
• Partner with cross-functional teams and business stakeholders to balance short- and long-term needs.
• Mentor and develop engineers across the organization and empower them to achieve ambitious goals.
• Handle escalations, lead high-stakes investigations, and drive systemic improvements to operational reliability.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of experience as a software engineer.
• At least 5 years of cumulative experience or exposure developing mobile applications with Flutter and Dart and React Native with JavaScript or TypeScript.
• Experience using AI for architectural validation, designing AI-augmented engineering workflows, and establishing quality and safety guardrails for AI-assisted work.
• A proactive and collaborative leadership style.
• A track record of technical leadership and creating clarity from ambiguity.
• Ability to work hybrid in San Francisco 2–3 days per week, or relocate independently within 90 days; occasional team-onsite travel is required.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision benefits begin on the first day; One Medical access and HSA/FSA plans are available, with Spring contributing up to $1,000 to HSAs depending on plan type.
• Employer-sponsored 401(k) matching is available up to 2%.
• Yearly allotment of no-cost visits to Spring Health therapists, coaches, and medication management providers for employees and dependents.
• Paid time off including vacation, sick leave, and company holidays.
• After six months of tenure, parental leave is 18 weeks for birthing parents and 16 weeks for non-birthing parents.
• Access to Noom, Carrot fertility care support with up to $4,000 reimbursement, Wellhub, and BrightHorizons sponsored care services.
• Up to $1,000 per year in professional development reimbursement.
• Up to $200 per year in donation matching.
• Hybrid role based in San Francisco with 2–3 office days per week at 44 Montgomery Street and occasional team-onsite travel.