Role Overview
Join a fast-moving engineering team building an innovative consumer music application where users can listen to, create, remix, and share music. As a Mobile Engineer, you will take ownership of the mobile experience across iOS and Android, shaping how musicians and creatives interact with AI-powered music technology. You will build polished, high-performance applications that go beyond simply adapting web features to mobile, delivering experiences designed specifically for mobile users. Working in a small, autonomous team, you will have the freedom to influence product direction, make key technical decisions, and turn ideas into production-ready features at speed.
Accountabilities
- Mobile Application Development: Own the development, maintenance, and continuous improvement of the mobile application across iOS and Android, ensuring a consistent, high-quality experience on both platforms.
- End-to-End Product Ownership: Take responsibility for mobile features from initial concept and technical planning through implementation, testing, deployment, and ongoing optimization.
- User Experience and Product Design: Build intuitive, visually polished, and engaging mobile experiences tailored to musicians, creators, and music enthusiasts, with a strong focus on usability and product quality.
- Cross-Platform Engineering: Develop and maintain robust mobile architectures using suitable technologies such as React Native, Swift, or Kotlin, adapting technical choices to the needs of the product.
- Systems and Backend Collaboration: Consider the broader technical ecosystem when developing mobile features, ensuring effective integration between mobile applications, backend services, and supporting systems.
- Product Innovation: Help define the mobile product roadmap by identifying opportunities to improve music discovery, creation, remixing, sharing, and overall user engagement.
- Rapid Development and Delivery: Work within a fast-paced engineering environment to prototype ideas, iterate quickly, and release improvements efficiently while maintaining high standards of reliability and performance.
- Independent Problem-Solving: Translate high-level product goals into actionable engineering solutions, make informed technical decisions, and take ownership of outcomes with minimal supervision.
- Continuous Improvement: Monitor the quality of the mobile experience, identify opportunities for technical and product enhancements, and contribute to the long-term scalability and maintainability of the application.
What We Offer
- Remote-First Flexibility: Work remotely from Canada or another eligible location, with the option to work from offices in London, New York, Warsaw, or Amsterdam.
- Professional Development: Receive an annual discretionary stipend to support learning, technical development, and career growth.
- Social Travel Opportunities: Access an annual discretionary stipend to meet colleagues in person and strengthen professional relationships.
- Annual Company Offsite: Participate in an annual company-wide gathering at an international destination, creating opportunities for collaboration and team building.
- Co-Working Stipend: Receive a monthly co-working allowance if you are not located near one of the main office hubs.
- High Ownership and Autonomy: Take responsibility for a core consumer product and have a direct influence on its technical architecture, user experience, and future direction.
- Fast-Paced Innovation: Work in a lean engineering environment where rapid experimentation, efficient development workflows, and quick releases help bring ideas to users faster.
- Meaningful Product Impact: Help shape how people discover, create, remix, and share music through innovative AI-powered technology.
- Career Growth: Explore opportunities to expand your responsibilities and influence beyond your immediate role within a dynamic, globally distributed team.
Requirements
- Mobile Engineering Experience: Demonstrated experience building and shipping a well-designed, production-ready mobile application used by real customers, with clear examples of your contributions and ownership.
- iOS and Android Expertise: Strong mobile development capabilities across both iOS and Android, with experience in one or more relevant technologies, including React Native, Swift, or Kotlin, and the ability to work across platforms.
- Systems Thinking: A solid understanding of mobile architecture, backend integration, and the technical considerations involved in building reliable, scalable mobile applications.
- Exceptional Product Judgment: Strong product intuition and a clear understanding of what makes a mobile experience intuitive, engaging, visually appealing, and genuinely useful to its users.
- End-to-End Ownership: A highly self-directed approach, with the ability to turn ambiguous requirements into clear plans, deliver production-ready solutions, and take responsibility for the results.
- Technical Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and debugging skills, with the ability to make sound architectural decisions and balance development speed with quality and maintainability.
- Adaptability and Initiative: Comfortable working in a small, autonomous team with rapid development cycles, minimal bureaucracy, and the freedom to shape both technical implementation and product direction.
- Interest in Music and Creativity: A genuine interest in music, creative tools, or digital music experiences is a plus, particularly an intuitive understanding of how musicians and creators interact with music products.
- Open-Source Contributions: Contributions to open-source projects or a strong GitHub portfolio demonstrating technical skills and initiative are advantageous.
- Remote Collaboration: Ability to work effectively in a distributed environment and collaborate across time zones, with availability to operate within the GMT-5 to GMT+1 time-zone range.
