Senior Tech Lead Mobile App Developer, Injective Labs
Decentralized finance blockchain
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Decentralized finance blockchain
21-100 employees
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21-100 employees
Company mission
To create a more free and inclusive financial paradigm through decentralization.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant experience building production mobile applications
- Experience building fintech, or trading applications
- Experience with blockchain, Web3, or DeFi
- Strong professional experience with React Native, React, and TypeScript
- Experience owning or leading the technical development of a production mobile application
- Strong understanding of mobile application architecture, design patterns, state management, performance, testing, and maintainability
- Experience making architectural decisions and driving technical projects from design through production
- Strong experience integrating mobile applications with backend APIs and services
- Experience with Node.js
- Strong experience working with REST APIs
- Experience with real-time data and communication technologies such as gRPC, Server-Sent Events (SSE), or WebSockets is a strong plus
- Experience debugging complex production issues and optimizing mobile application performance
- Experience with mobile CI/CD, testing, monitoring, and release processes
- Experience publishing and maintaining applications on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store
- Ability to provide technical direction and constructive feedback to other engineers
- Comfortable taking ownership and operating autonomously in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Ability to communicate technical decisions clearly with both engineering and non-engineering stakeholders
- Must be fluent in English
- Based in the EU or New York timezone
Desirable
- Understanding of iOS and Android platforms, including platform-specific behaviors, limitations, and development best practices
- Experience designing or scaling mobile applications with a significant production user base
- Experience working on products involving real-time market data, order execution, charts, or other performance-sensitive financial interfaces
- Previous experience acting as a Tech Lead or providing technical leadership within a mobile engineering team
What the job involves
- As a Senior / Tech Lead Mobile App Developer, you will take technical ownership of our mobile application and help build the next generation of DeFi trading experiences
- You’ll be a hands-on technical leader, working primarily on our React Native application while owning key architectural decisions, engineering standards, performance, reliability, and the overall technical direction of the mobile product
- You’ll work closely with Product, Design, Backend Engineering, and other engineers to turn complex trading functionality into fast, reliable, and intuitive mobile experiences
- We’re looking for an experienced mobile engineer who can operate with a high degree of autonomy, make sound technical decisions, and raise the engineering bar across the team
- You should be comfortable moving between architecture and hands-on implementation, reviewing and improving others' work, troubleshooting complex production issues, and driving projects from technical design through release
- Most importantly, this role is for someone passionate about building exceptional mobile products and excited about the future of decentralized finance
- Take technical ownership of our React Native mobile application, driving its architecture, scalability, performance, reliability, and long-term maintainability across iOS and Android
- Lead the full engineering lifecycle of mobile features, from technical design and hands-on implementation through testing, release, monitoring, and iteration
- Build complex and high-impact functionality using React Native and TypeScript while defining and maintaining engineering standards, patterns, and best practices the codebase and team
- Make key technical and architectural decisions, balancing product requirements, development speed, scalability, and technical debt, while proactively identifying and driving improvements to the mobile architecture and development processes
- Provide technical guidance to other engineers through code reviews, design discussions, pair programming, and knowledge sharing
- Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Backend Engineering to translate product requirements into scalable technical solutions, including API design, integrations, real-time data flows, and supporting infrastructure
- Own mobile release processes and application health, including App Store and Google Play releases, monitoring, issue triage, and investigation of complex bugs and production incidents to ensure reliable long-term fixes
- Stay up to date with modern mobile development practices and evaluate new technologies, frameworks, and tools when relevant
Our take
Financial institutions are increasingly turning to the potential of decentralized finance, using blockchain technology similar to that of cryptocurrency. However, development in that area is time-consuming and prohibitively expensive. Injective aims to bring traditional finance institutions together with the decentralized finance ecosystem by providing an optimized blockchain and numerous modules to support decentralized app development.
Although cryptocurrency and blockchain-related firms are struggling against strong economic headwinds, Injective remains bullish about the future of decentralized finance in the Web3.0 sector. Centralized exchanges are likely to remain vulnerable to liquidity and stability issues, and so users will look for infrastructure and tools that will allow them to have access to their finances at all times.
Injective also has substantial funding that it is using to develop new toolkits and upgrades for the Injective ecosystem, as well as to support developers on the platform. It is also investing in software engineering talent as well as marketing to promote community growth. These advancements for the company position it well to lead the charge in decentralized finance and drive innovation within the Web 3.0 space, making its future one of excitement.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
22% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Create a new future: Create your own path while changing the world
- Token Equity Package: Be part of your company's success
- Flexible PTO: Take time to rest, so you can come back fully recharged
- Work from anywhere: work isn't bound to a centralized location, wneither are we
- Cool NY office: Option to work with the team in-person or pop in to see us
- Generous parental leave: Inclusive paid parental leave for all new parents
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Leadership
Eric Chen
(Co-Founder)Also a Venture Partner with Innovating Capital and and Investor with Vessel Capital.
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