Senior Mobile Engineer, Podium
Messaging tools for local businesses
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Messaging tools for local businesses
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower local companies with powerful messaging tools so they can achieve their business goals.
Role
Who you are
- If you thrive in high-stakes, fast-paced environments, enjoy solving complex architectural challenges at the intersection of Mobile and Agentic AI, this role is for you!
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a deep focus on native mobile development
- Native iOS and/or Android Experience: Proven expertise in either Swift and/or Kotlin with the expectation you will be working in both. You should be comfortable leading technical decisions and reviewing code across both platforms
- Technical leadership: A track record of leading projects, fleshing out requirements, and driving technical strategy for a mobile feature
- Modern Tooling Proficiency: Experience utilizing AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) to drive engineering velocity and code quality
- Architecture: Strong experience with mobile design patterns, threading, and memory management, specifically as it relates to handling long-running asynchronous AI tasks
Desirable
- Fullstack Exposure: Familiarity with our backend and frontend stack: Python, Elixir, React, and TypeScript
- Data Strategy: Strong experience with GraphQL for efficient mobile data fetching and real-time subscriptions
- Agentic Frameworks: Experience with modern agent frameworks or implementing multi-step reasoning and orchestration patterns on mobile devices
- Passion for Growth: A dedicated approach to supporting new team members through building a disciplined, collaborative engineering culture
What the job involves
- Podium is looking for a world-class Senior Mobile Engineer to lead the evolution of our mobile ecosystem
- Our mobile apps are the primary interface for local businesses to manage their reputation and communicate with customers
- As we scale our industry-leading AI Agent platform, we need a senior mobile engineer who can implement how autonomous agents interact, think, and perform within our native iOS and Android environments
- In this role, you won’t just build features; you will be a technical anchor for mobile across Podium
- You will design the high-performance, real-time architectures that allow AI Agents to autonomously handle complex workflows, ensuring a seamless experience across all touch points
- We move fast, leveraging cutting-edge tools like Claude Code, Cursor and Codex to accelerate our delivery and focus on solving the hardest problems
- Mobile-First AI: Design and scale the foundational architecture of our native iOS (Swift) and Android (Kotlin) applications to support agentic workflows, multi-turn conversations, and real-time AI interactions
- Drive the Agent Interface: Lead the implementation of mobile-specific AI capabilities, focusing on low-latency streaming, multi-modal inputs, and agentic state management on the client side
- Own the Mobile Lifecycle: Take full ownership of the mobile development lifecycle—from initial architectural specs to deployment, CI/CD optimization on AWS, and production reliability
- Mentor & Multiply: Act as a force multiplier for the engineering org. You’ll provide thoughtful, kind code reviews and mentor engineers across all levels, helping them level up their mobile and AI craft
- Navigate Ambiguity: Prototype rapidly and iterate on complex challenges—such as offline syncing of agent states and high-volume data pipelines—with little guidance
Our take
Podium’s customer messaging platform offers small to medium-sized local businesses a range of solutions for communicating with their customers. The tool helps them to attract reviews, gain feedback, operate webchat, and manage marketing campaigns and payments.
Since its 2014 launch, the company has evolved from an early focus on customer reviews to cover payment and messaging solutions. With a focus on SMS communications, it's already powering over 100,000 businesses in the US, such as La-Z-Boy, Trane Technologies, Zerorez, Ken Garff Auto Group, and Rotmans. Its most recent valuation put Podium at over $3 billion.
Podium is continuing to come out with new services, including the full payments offering with the launch of card readers and a new campaign marketing solution. Its foray into payments has gone better than planned, perhaps unsurprisingly so considering the forced shift to mobile and digital payments in recent years.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Nov 2021
$201m
SERIES D
Apr 2020
$125m
SERIES C
Total funding: $418.7m
Company benefits
- 401k with a matching contribution plan
- Unlimited Vacation
- Medical, dental, vision benefits
- Onsite gym with local professional coaches
- Life insurance, long and short-term disability coverage
- Paid maternity and paternity leave
- Weekly free lunch, breakfast and delicious smoothies
Company HQ
Lehi, UT
Leadership
Eric Rea
(Co-Founder & CEO)Having studied at BYU, Eric founded finegrain in 2011 before spending a year as a Software Engineer for International Atomic Energy Agency. They co-founded Podium in January 2014, and have been CEO since.
Dennis Steele
(Co-Founder)Dennis started their career as a Sales Manager for Protection 1 Security Solutions before working as Account Manager for PilmerPR and SpotterRF. They worked briefly as a DevMountain Developer, having co-founded Podium with Eric.
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