Mobile Applications Developer Jobs in Connecticut

Job Summary:
Avangrid is a leading company in the energy sector, and they are seeking a Senior Digital Tech Lead to oversee the architecture, development, and delivery of their mobile applications. This role involves providing technical leadership, guiding software engineers, and ensuring high-quality delivery across iOS and Android platforms.
Responsibilities:
• Provide hands-on technical leadership for software engineers, focusing on technical architecture, design, development, and successful delivery.
• Act as a liaison between the customer community and the software development team for effective communication and understanding of requirements.
• Define high-level application platform architectural guidelines, making strategic choices and articulating trade-offs to business owners.
• Displays outward thinking, develops strategies for the full software development life cycle of new and emerging technologies, and demonstrates the viability.
• Technical mentoring to improve the analytical and technical skills of team members.
• Remain up to date with coding best practices for scaling and Mobile native technologies (IOS and Android)
• Define and evolve a modern mobile architecture (e.g., MVVM/Clean Architecture, dependency injection, modularization) that supports scalability, testability, and reuse across apps.
• Mentor engineers; raise the bar on code reviews, design reviews, and technical decision making. Build healthy engineering practices and a strong learning culture.
• Stay current on iOS and Android platform changes, frameworks (e.g., Swift UI, Combine; Jetpack Compose, Kotlin Coroutines/Flow), and app store policies. Advocate pragmatic adoption.
• Own end-to-end delivery for iOS/Android epics: from solution design and API contracts through implementation, testing, performance tuning, and release.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and deliver products based on best practices.
• Partner with Scrum Masters, Project Manager, Business Analysts & SMEs and Product Owners on Agile and Scrum principles and ways of working
• Promote pragmatic Agile practices (definition of ready/done, acceptance criteria, story mapping, tech debt tracking, and iteration cadence).
• Unit-test code for robustness, usability, and reliability.
• Work on bug fixing and continuous improvement of applications based on metrics.
• Collaborate closely with UX to design and build pixel perfect, accessible interfaces (ADA), and ensure consistent interaction patterns across platforms.
• Own CI/CD pipelines for mobile (e.g., GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins), automated build/test, code signing, and artifact management.
• Orchestrate TestFlight, Play Console, phased rollouts, feature gating (Firebase Remote Config/LaunchDarkly), and canary strategies.
• Establish robust test strategy: unit, snapshot/UI tests (XCTest/XCUITest, Espresso/UI Automator), contract/API testing, and performance tests at scale.
• Maintain a reliable release train, app versioning, and store compliance with Apple and Google review guidelines.
• Produce and maintain technical documentation: solution architecture, data flows, deployment diagrams, and operational runbooks.
• Demonstrate strong technical, analytical, interpersonal, and organizational skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Communicate complex technical topics to nontechnical stakeholders. Provide clear options, tradeoffs, and recommendations.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience designing, building, and integrating native mobile app solutions.
• 10+ years of IT experience in web and mobile app design, development, testing, and support.
• Significant technical experience as a software developer, software development lead, technical lead, technical architect, or related role
• Strong knowledge of designing architectural solutions.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Knowledge of application development lifecycle, API best practices, and DevOps
• Possesses motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment.
• Native Mobile Apps programming for iOS development (Swift/objective-c) and/or Android development (java and Kotlin).
• iOS: Swift, Swift UI and/or UI Kit, Combine (or RxSwift), async/await, concurrency, Core Data/Realm, URL Session/Alamofire, Keychain, background tasks.
• Android: Kotlin, Jetpack (Compose, Navigation, Room, Hilt/Koin, Work Manager), Coroutines/Flow (or RxJava), OkHttp/Retrofit, Keystore, background work.
• Architecture: MVVM/Clean Architecture, modularization, DI, SOLID, separation of concerns, testability.
• CI/CD tools (Git, Jenkins, etc.) and source code management modules.
• Experience with Google analytics, RemoteConfig, etc.
• Experience with container frameworks such as Docker and Kubernetes.
Preferred:
• Experience in the utility sector.
• Bilingual proficiency in English/Spanish.
Company:
Avangrid is a leading U.S. energy company powering connections for millions across the country. Founded in 1997, the company is headquartered in Orange, USA, with a team of 5001-10000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.