Head of Apps Engineering, Enterprise

The role

You will lead a small team of mobile and backend engineers and own the engineering side of a consumer app portfolio. You will write and review code, set technical direction, and partner with product leadership to ship apps using a shared backend platform.

What you will do

• Lead architecture and hands-on development across the app portfolio
• Partner daily with the portfolio's product lead on roadmap, feasibility, and sequencing
• Track retention and usage across every app in the portfolio to prioritize engineering attention
• Drive factory economics by hardening shared components for new app launches
• Manage a small team of mobile and backend engineers through line management, code review, and career development
• Represent data apps at executive and planning forums
• Raise the bar on modern engineering leverage using agentic/AI-assisted development

Required qualifications

• Built and scaled a consumer app with real ownership
• Held senior scope and led a team through hands-on building
• Backend-heavy full-stack engineer fluent across the stack, including React Native
• Credible in an executive room to represent a business line
• Ability to read retention and engagement data across a portfolio of products
• Experienced with consumer scale including production load, users, and growth curves

Nice to have

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with several years building consumer-facing mobile products
• Founder, CTO, VP Engineering, or founding-engineer experience at a consumer startup
• Track record taking a consumer app from zero to meaningful scale
• Deep backend expertise (APIs, data pipelines, cloud infrastructure) plus production React Native or comparable cross-platform mobile experience
• Experience managing small engineering teams directly
• Comfortable presenting to and working with executive stakeholders
• Rewards/loyalty or data product experience

About the company

Attain builds a platform that allows consumers to access savings tools, earned wages and rewards by providing permission to use their real-time data for research, insights and targeted advertising. The company aims to build an equitable and efficient data sharing ecosystem.