Software Engineer (Mobile)

The role

You will take ownership of mobile apps end-to-end. You will develop and evolve mobile applications across iOS and Android while collaborating with design, product, backend, and infrastructure teams.

What you will do

• Own the development and evolution of NetBird mobile applications across iOS and Android
• Drive architectural decisions and establish mobile engineering best practices
• Build secure, intuitive, and polished mobile user experiences
• Collaborate cross-functionally with backend and client engineers and product teams
• Improve CI/CD pipelines and release processes
• Diagnose and resolve complex issues in production environments
• Contribute to code reviews
• Stay up to date with mobile platform trends

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Significant experience building production mobile apps
• Strong experience with native iOS (Swift) and/or native Android (Kotlin/Java) development
• Deep understanding of mobile app architecture and best practices
• Experience building robust mobile apps that handle secure authentication, networking, and state management reliably
• Strong knowledge of mobile testing practices (unit tests, integration tests, UI tests)
• Experience shipping apps to the App Store and Google Play
• Strong collaboration and communication skills in English
• Ability to work independently and make pragmatic decisions in a startup environment

Nice to have

• Experience with Android Tv and TV OS apps
• Familiarity with networking/security concepts (VPNs, WireGuard, Zero Trust, device posture, certificates)
• Experience working with CI/CD tools for mobile (Fastlane, Bitrise, GitHub Actions, etc.)
• Knowledge of mobile performance profiling and observability (Crashlytics, Sentry, performance monitoring)
• Experience contributing to open source projects
• Experience working in cloud environments and modern backend ecosystems

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Equity incentives
• Hybrid work environment
• Berlin office and remote flexibility
• Diverse and collaborative team
• High level of independence
• Growth opportunities

About the company

NetBird is a software company developing an open source zero-trust network security platform. The team is from Germany and aims to make advanced network security accessible for everyone.