About Us
SharkNinja is a global product design and technology company, with a diversified portfolio of 5-star rated lifestyle solutions that positively impact people’s lives in homes around the world. Powered by two trusted, global brands, Shark and Ninja, the company has a proven track record of bringing disruptive innovation to market and developing one consumer product after another has allowed SharkNinja to enter multiple product categories, driving significant growth and market share gains.
AI at SharkNinja
At SharkNinja, we’re building an AI-native culture. We’re not waiting for the future; we’re creating it. Our people are expected to experiment boldly, adopt new tools, and continuously raise what’s possible to create meaningful impact for our consumers.
About the Role
The Principal Software Engineer, Mobile is SharkNinja's deepest technical authority on mobile engineering. You'll define the architectural standards and engineering principles that shape mobile across SharkNinja's connected product ecosystem, including SharkClean, NinjaPro Connect, and the next-generation unified app platform. You'll tackle the most complex technical challenges at the intersection of mobile, firmware, cloud, AI, and consumer experience. This is an IC role.
What You'll Own
- Solve the Hardest Technical Problems: Own SharkNinja's most complex, non-recurring mobile challenges — spanning native iOS/Android, cross-platform frameworks, cloud integration, device connectivity, and AI-driven development. Make and defend high-stakes architecture and technology decisions with long-term impact on platform reliability and engineering velocity.
- Define Technical Standards and Architecture: Set and evolve mobile engineering standards — architecture patterns, cross-platform strategy, testing philosophy, and production-readiness criteria. Define integration patterns across mobile, cloud, firmware, and connected devices, and drive React Native vs. native platform strategy. Evaluate emerging technologies and AI coding tools.
- Lead Technical Thought Leadership: Serve as SharkNinja's go-to authority on mobile engineering across Mobile, Firmware, Cloud, Hardware, Product, and Design. Lead design reviews and communities of practice that raise engineering quality org-wide.
- Elevate Engineering Capability: Mentor senior and staff engineers through proximity to hard problems. Build reusable frameworks, reference architectures, and documentation that outlast any single project. Champion AI-driven development workflows across the mobile org.
- Advance AI-Ready Mobile Architecture: Define how the mobile platform integrates with AI — on-device inference, AI-powered features, and data contracts connecting mobile to cloud-based AI services. Solve mobile/AI integration challenges with no established playbook.
Our Culture
At SharkNinja, we don’t just raise the bar—we push past it every single day. Our Outrageously Extraordinary mindset drives us to tackle the impossible, push boundaries, and deliver results that others only dream of. Learn more: Life At SharkNinja and Outrageously Extraordinary.
We offer competitive health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, employee stock purchase options, wellness programs, SharkNinja product discounts, and more. We empower your personal and professional growth with high impact Learning Programs featuring bold voices redefining what’s possible.
What You'll Bring
- 12+ years of progressive software engineering experience, with deep expertise in native iOS (Swift), Android (Kotlin), and React Native.
- A track record of solving the hardest mobile engineering problems — architecture, cross-platform unification, consumer-scale reliability — with measurable impact at scale.
- Deep expertise in mobile-to-cloud integration, BLE/Wi-Fi connectivity, and the full stack from firmware interfaces through cloud services.
- Recognized technical authority, sought out when the stakes are highest.
- Proven ability to set engineering standards and frameworks that scale across teams.
- Strong cross-functional influence built on technical credibility, not positional authority.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, translating complex decisions for leadership and business stakeholders.
Preferred:
- Rust/C/C++ for cross-platform or performance-critical work.
- Connected product/IoT/robotics/smart home background.
- AI-integrated mobile architecture experience (on-device ML, AI-assisted dev, LLM interfaces).
- Experience with platform unification or large-scale architectural transitions.
- Consumer electronics or robotics background.
