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Mobile App Engineer Jobs in California (NOW HIRING)

iOS Mobile Engineer

Cupertino, CA · On-site

$63.75 - $88/hr

Build and add features to an iOS mobile app Automate build process for the iOS mobile app ... DevOps Skills + Experience Required: 3+ years building great mobile experiences for iOS Strong ...

iOS Mobile Engineer

Cupertino, CA · On-site

$63.75 - $88/hr

Build and add features to an iOS mobile app Automate build process for the iOS mobile app ... DevOps Skills + Experience Required: 3+ years building great mobile experiences for iOS Strong ...

iOS Mobile Engineer

Cupertino, CA · On-site

$63.75 - $88/hr

Build and add features to an iOS mobile app Automate build process for the iOS mobile app ... DevOps Skills + Experience Required: 3+ years building great mobile experiences for iOS Strong ...

Mobile Engineer, iOS

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$120 - $170/hr

About the Role As an iOS Engineer at Ramp, you'll enhance our successful and rapidly growing mobile app. You will improve the core platform that thousands of businesses rely on while also building ...

Senior React Native Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$157K - $196K/yr

They are seeking a highly skilled Senior Mobile Engineer with strong experience in React Native to help scale and evolve their mobile app, delivering new features and ensuring world-class user ...

Senior React Native Engineer

Los Angeles, CA · On-site

$143K - $179K/yr

They are seeking a highly skilled Senior Mobile Engineer with strong experience in React Native to help scale and evolve their mobile app, delivering new features and ensuring world-class user ...

DevOps Engineer Mobile

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$109K - $194K/yr

... Engineer - Mobile , you will play a crucial role in streamlining the delivery, integration, and ... Enforce mobile app security best practices , including certificate management, secrets handling ...

Design and develop core features of the Plaud App with a strong focus on functionality, performance, reliability, and user experience, leveraging AI‑assisted tools to improve development efficiency ...

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Mobile App Engineer information

What are some common challenges faced by mobile app engineers when working on cross-functional teams?

Mobile App Engineers often collaborate with designers, backend developers, product managers, and QA specialists to deliver seamless app experiences. A common challenge is ensuring clear communication across disciplines, especially when translating design concepts into functional mobile features or syncing backend APIs with app requirements. Navigating differing priorities and timelines between teams can also require effective negotiation and adaptability. Building strong relationships and proactively addressing misunderstandings are key to overcoming these challenges and delivering high-quality apps.

What is the difference between Mobile App Engineer vs Mobile Developer?

AspectMobile App EngineerMobile Developer
CredentialsBachelor's in CS or related field, certifications like Android or iOS developmentSimilar credentials, often with certifications in specific platforms
Work EnvironmentCollaborates with cross-functional teams, involved in app architecture and testingFocuses on coding, UI design, and app implementation
Industry UsageUsed across tech companies, startups, and enterprises for app developmentCommonly used interchangeably with Mobile App Engineer in job listings

While both roles require similar skills and credentials, a Mobile App Engineer typically involves a broader scope, including architecture and testing, whereas a Mobile Developer mainly focuses on coding and UI design. The terms are often used interchangeably in the industry, but the Engineer role may encompass more strategic responsibilities.

What does a mobile app engineer do?

A Mobile App Engineer designs, develops, tests, and maintains applications for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. They typically work with programming languages like Swift for iOS, Kotlin or Java for Android, and sometimes cross-platform tools like Flutter or React Native. Their responsibilities include ensuring app functionality, optimizing performance, fixing bugs, and updating apps to support new devices or operating system versions. Mobile App Engineers also collaborate with designers, product managers, and other developers to create user-friendly and secure mobile applications.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a mobile app engineer, and why are they important?

To thrive as a Mobile App Engineer, you need strong programming skills in languages such as Swift, Kotlin, or Java, along with a solid understanding of mobile UI/UX principles and a relevant degree in computer science or a related field. Familiarity with development frameworks (like React Native or Flutter), version control systems (such as Git), and experience with app store deployment are typically required. Problem-solving, attention to detail, and effective communication are vital soft skills in this role. These competencies ensure high-quality, user-friendly applications and efficient collaboration with cross-functional teams in a rapidly evolving tech environment.
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Mobile Engineer (SF)

General Medicine Inc.

San Francisco, CA • On-site

$120 - $160/hr

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Job description

About General Medicine

As a mobile engineer at General Medicine, you'll help build and scale a healthcare store that makes it delightfully simple to shop for any type of care. We provide upfront cash and insurance prices for virtual and in-person visits, prescriptions, labs, imaging, and more.

What we’re looking for

We’re looking for a mobile engineer to build our first native mobile app using React Native. This is a foundational hire — you’ll be responsible for helping to stand up the mobile app from scratch, making key architectural decisions, and setting the patterns that the rest of the team builds on top of.

Our ideal candidate has shipped and maintained React Native apps in production, and deeply understands the boundaries between React Native and native iOS/Android. You should be comfortable dropping into Swift or Kotlin when needed — e.g. for HealthKit integrations, push notifications, or video calling SDKs — but spend most of your time in TypeScript and React. You should also be willing to work on our Next.js web frontend; we think of mobile and web as one surface area, not two separate teams.

Beyond mobile expertise, we’re looking for someone who cares deeply about technical excellence but is also comfortable moving quickly. We are constantly navigating tradeoffs between engineering velocity and quality. Our ideal candidate is hungry, high‑agency, and aspires to be a generalist. Our engineers frequently write product requirements documents, write SQL to understand how features are performing, and own QA — no task is beneath us or outside of the scope of the role if it helps us to deliver a great product. We’re looking for someone who can operate in an environment of significant ambiguity, and who is comfortable working closely with design, operations, and clinical stakeholders.

We don’t expect you to have a healthcare background (though it’s great if you do!). However, you should be excited by the prospect of digging into the messy complexities of the American healthcare system (integrating with EHRs, revenue cycle management, etc).

Qualifications
  • 3+ years of experience building mobile apps, with meaningful production experience in React Native
  • Strong understanding of native iOS and/or Android development (Swift, Kotlin) — you don’t need to be an expert in both, but you should be comfortable with either
  • Experience with Expo, including build tooling, OTA updates, and native module configuration
  • Proficiency with TypeScript and React
  • Experience architecting shared code between mobile and web codebases (or a strong opinion on how to do it well)
  • Familiarity with modern backend frameworks is a plus — we use Ruby on Rails and Postgres

Please note that this role is based in either our SF office (near Market and Spear St) or our Boston office (Central Square, Cambridge). We expect our team to work from the office a minimum of 3 days per week, and ideally 4 or 5.

Why join us

We’re an experienced team that has built a company in this space before, our product has clear product‑market fit, and we’ve raised money from top investors.

We have an ambitious and distinctive vision for what can be built in consumer healthcare. We believe LLMs and price transparency legislation have opened up several massive opportunities.

If you’re an ambitious and entrepreneurial mobile engineer and this resonates, please apply.

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