[Remote] Principal Mobile Engineer - AI-Augmented Development
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Taxwell is dedicated to helping everyday Americans maximize their tax refunds through innovative software solutions. They are seeking a Principal Mobile Engineer to lead the development and evolution of the TaxAct mobile application across iOS and Android, ensuring high-quality user experiences and leveraging AI-assisted tools.
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture, design, delivery, and evolution of the TaxAct mobile application across iOS and Android
- Lead mobile capabilities including authentication, biometrics, secure storage, notifications, deep linking, device integrations, performance, and app store operations
- Define the appropriate balance between native mobile and web-based experiences
- Drive platform quality, reliability, security, and maintainability
- Evaluate emerging technologies and modernize the mobile platform where appropriate
- Act as the technical lead for mobile initiatives across engineering, product, design, security, and platform teams
- Operate independently to identify opportunities, define solutions, and drive execution
- Build prototypes, evaluate technologies, and solve complex technical problems
- Advise stakeholders on mobile architecture, platform capabilities, user experience, release strategy, and operational excellence
- Improve mobile engineering practices, tooling, standards, and documentation
- Use AI-assisted development tools and agentic workflows to accelerate design, implementation, testing, debugging, documentation, and research
- Maintain accountability for correctness, security, performance, and maintainability
- Evaluate emerging AI-powered engineering tools and help establish adoption standards
- Review and validate AI-generated work to ensure production-quality outcomes
Skills
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience building, shipping, and operating production mobile applications
- Proven ownership of complex mobile applications or platform capabilities across iOS and Android
- Experience driving initiatives from concept through production with minimal direction
- Experience supporting the full mobile lifecycle, including releases, observability, crash analysis, performance optimization, and platform upgrades
- Demonstrated use of AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering effectiveness
- Experience modernizing applications while maintaining production stability
- Significant production experience with Flutter and Dart
- Strong understanding of iOS and Android platform capabilities, including authentication, biometrics, secure storage, notifications, deep linking, permissions, and device APIs
- Experience integrating mobile applications with web applications, WebViews, APIs, backend services, identity providers, and third-party platforms
- Strong hands-on coding ability and mobile architecture expertise
- Experience reviewing and validating AI-generated code and technical solutions
- Ability to make pragmatic decisions balancing customer experience, velocity, risk, and maintainability
- Ownership mindset with a focus on outcomes
- Ability to operate independently and navigate ambiguity
- Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Pragmatic, customer-focused technical judgment
- Leadership through expertise, influence, accountability, and delivery
- Experience with WebView-based mobile applications
- Experience with authentication, identity, biometrics, and secure session management
- Experience in regulated industries such as tax, fintech, healthcare, or financial services
- Experience with analytics, experimentation, observability, crash reporting, and performance monitoring
- Experience building reusable mobile tooling or platform capabilities
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