[Remote] Director, Mobile Engineering
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Impiricus is the first and only AI-powered HCP Engagement Engine, recognized as the #1 fastest growing company in North America by Deloitte in 2025. As Director of Mobile Engineering, you will own the technical direction for mobile and backend teams, leading the architecture and processes to deliver innovative solutions in healthcare.
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a high-performing engineering organization spanning mobile (iOS/Android) and backend, responsible for delivering world-class, reliable products end-to-end
- Define and execute engineering strategy across mobile and backend, aligning technical initiatives with product and business objectives
- Own the group's overall technical architecture — including mobile-backend integration, API design, and service architecture — ensuring consistency and scalability across the stack
- Establish and drive adoption of engineering standards and processes (development, testing, CI/CD, observability, release management, code review)
- Partner closely with Product, Design, and AI to deliver scalable, customer-centric experiences across mobile and backend
- Drive engineering excellence through architecture reviews, code quality, operational best practices, and continuous improvement across teams
- Build, mentor, and develop engineering managers and senior engineers across mobile and backend, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and accountability
- Design secure, scalable APIs, backend services, and high-performance mobile solutions in an integrated way, rather than as two disconnected efforts
- Ensure all applications and services meet the highest standards for security, privacy, reliability, accessibility, and performance
- Lead technical planning and execution for strategic initiatives, balancing innovation, scalability, and delivery velocity across the group
- Oversee organizational growth, hiring, and adoption of emerging technologies — including AI-powered capabilities — across mobile and backend
Skills
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, spanning both mobile and backend/server-side development
- 5+ years leading engineering teams, with experience managing engineering managers and scaling organizations across multiple technical disciplines (mobile and backend)
- Deep expertise in modern mobile development (Swift/SwiftUI and/or Kotlin/Jetpack Compose) *and* solid backend fundamentals — distributed systems, RESTful/GraphQL API design, databases, and service architecture
- Demonstrated experience defining architecture and technical standards at an organizational level — not just within a single discipline — and driving their adoption across teams
- Strong understanding of authentication, networking, offline synchronization, mobile security, and application performance, as well as backend scalability, reliability, and security practices
- Experience establishing engineering best practices (architecture, code review, testing, CI/CD, release management, observability) that apply across an entire engineering group
- Proven ability to influence cross-functional strategy and partner with Product, Design, and executive leadership
- Experience recruiting, mentoring, and developing senior engineers and engineering managers across disciplines
- Excellent communication and organizational leadership skills, balancing technical depth and business impact
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents + on-demand healthcare concierge
- Pre-tax savings options for healthcare and dependent care, with monthly employer contributions to HSA (if enrolled in a high-deductible plan)
- 100% paid short- and long-term disability, plus life and AD&D insurance
- Take the time you need with a flexible vacation policy — recharge your batteries your way
- Paid parental leave to spend time with your newborn, adopted, or foster child (available after 6 months)
- If you’re close to an office, we encourage spending some time in-person to collaborate and connect. If not, remote is always an option.
- Save for your future with tax advantages (and company match!)
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