Staff Mobile Engineer, Tech Lead
Gametime United3 months ago
Base Salary
$214k - $251k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the long-term technical vision and architecture for the React Native mobile platform across iOS and Android.
- Own mobile architecture, platform infrastructure, performance, reliability, and release engineering strategy.
- Lead complex cross-functional initiatives involving mobile, backend, product, design, and data teams.
- Evaluate and promote AI-powered development tools, on-device intelligence, and AI-driven personalization capabilities.
- Establish standards for code quality, testing, observability, and mobile engineering practices.
- Drive crash monitoring, CI/CD, progressive rollouts, performance improvements, and release quality.
- Mentor engineers through code reviews, architectural guidance, coaching, and technical thought leadership.
- Partner with Product and Design on the mobile roadmap and translate business goals into technical solutions.
- Identify and remove platform bottlenecks affecting team velocity or user experience.
- Promote engineering excellence through technical talks, documentation, and inclusive collaboration.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years building and scaling production mobile applications and significant React Native experience.
- Deep production expertise with React Native, including Fabric, TurboModules, native module bridging, and cross-platform parity.
- Strong experience with iOS and Android native layers, including Swift, Objective-C, Kotlin, and Java.
- Expert-level TypeScript experience and deep knowledge of scalable state management and mobile architecture patterns.
- Expertise diagnosing React Native and native performance issues involving JavaScript and UI threads, bridge overhead, memory, startup time, and rendering.
- Experience with mobile crash reporting, performance monitoring, analytics, app distribution, phased rollouts, feature flags, OTA updates, and mobile CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with unit, integration, and end-to-end mobile testing using tools such as Jest, Detox, or Maestro.
- Proficiency with RESTful and GraphQL APIs and cloud infrastructure including AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Experience leveraging AI for code generation and integrating AI/ML-powered mobile features such as on-device models, LLM-backed experiences, or recommendation systems.
- Ability to define technical direction, lead complex multi-team projects, influence organization-wide decisions, and mentor engineers.
Benefits
- Flexible PTO.
- Competitive salary and equity package.
- Monthly Gametime event credits valued at $1,200 per year.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Life insurance and disability benefits.
- Family-forming benefits through Carrot Fertility.
- 401(k), HSA, and pre-tax savings programs.
- Company off-sites and meet-ups.
- Wellness programs and tenure recognition.
Tech Stack
AWSAzureDatadogFirebaseGitHub ActionsGoogle Cloud PlatformGraphQLiOSJavaJestKotlinObjective-CReact NativeReduxSwiftTypeScript
Categories
Mobile
About Gametime United
Gametime United builds a mobile-first marketplace for last-minute tickets to sports, music, and theater, serving fans across the U.S. and Canada via iOS, Android, and web. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, it aggregates ticket inventory and earns transaction fees; its platforms support more than 60,000 events across North America with instant mobile delivery replacing printed tickets.