Senior Software Engineer - Mobile

Read AI - Seattle HQ, Remote. Posted 2 months ago

The role

A Senior Mobile Engineer will own major feature areas across iOS and Android. You will build real-time audio capture and processing, optimize app performance, and partner with product, design, and ML teams to ship AI-powered mobile experiences.

What you will do

Own major feature areas end-to-end across iOS and Android
Lead development of new mobile features and product improvements
Build and enhance real-time audio capture and processing
Optimize app performance, reliability, battery usage, and latency
Design and implement AI-powered mobile interactions
Partner with product, design, and ML teams to prototype and ship UX patterns
Evolve mobile architecture patterns and shared engineering standards
Establish and uphold best practices for code quality, testing, and performance
Implement security, privacy, data handling, and offline-first support
Mentor and support other engineers through design reviews and code review

Required qualifications

8+ years of development experience
Strong experience building and shipping production mobile apps on iOS (Swift/SwiftUI) and/or Android (Kotlin/Jetpack Compose)
Proven ability to own complex features end-to-end
Solid understanding of mobile architecture patterns, state management, and building maintainable UI at scale
Experience with real-time audio capture and processing, using AVFoundation (iOS) and/or Android audio APIs
Familiarity with background execution, offline storage, and syncing data reliably across devices and network conditions
Experience integrating mobile apps with RESTful APIs, WebSockets, and event-driven backends
Strong product instincts
Strong communication skills

Nice to have

Prior experience with real-time audio processing or speech-to-text applications
Backend development experience in Python, FastAPI, or Node.js
Familiarity with PostgreSQL, Redis, and Celery
Experience working with AWS, GCP, or Azure
Prior experience in a startup or fast-growing environment

Benefits

Equity
Low deductible health plans
Flexible time away
Family leave programs

Before you apply

Company does not provide visa support or sponsorship for employees

About the company

Read AI is a product-focused startup that brings intelligence to conversations by integrating with tools like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, and Slack. The company is backed by $81 million in funding.