Experience leading and growing engineering teams of 10+ engineers in a fast-paced product environment
Proven success managing fully remote and/or distributed engineering teams, with strong operational and communication practices
Demonstrated ability to partner closely with Product and Design on strategy, roadmap planning, prioritization, and execution. Comfortable challenging assumptions, driving alignment, and translating ambiguity into high-quality product delivery
Strong technical foundation in mobile engineering, with deep expertise in Swift, Kotlin, and/or Rust
Hands on technical leader with experience in mobile architecture, debugging, release management, app performance, and engineering trade offs
Experience building and scaling consumer mobile products with 1M+ monthly active users (MAU)
A track record of delivering measurable impact, with clear examples of improving metrics such as user growth, retention, release cadence, product quality, reliability, engineering productivity, or team effectiveness
Experience operating in a high-velocity mobile development environment, with a strong focus on release predictability, engineering excellence, app quality, and disciplined execution
Direct exposure to features such as presence, channels, notifications, sync, low-latency messaging, or engagement loops
Track record improving release cadence, crash rate, ANR rate, app-store review quality, or release confidence
Experience hiring and developing engineering teams
Experience spanning both webapp/desktop and mobile (iOS and Android teams), or client plus adjacent backend ownership
Demonstrated ability to balance speed, quality, and high engineering standard in fast paced environment
Rust experience
Experience in collaboration, social or other real-time communication products
Background in privacy-first, security-focused, or mission-driven products
Experience with end-to-end encryption, secure communications
Experience in community scale or multi device products where reliability and sync are critical
Experience building high impact open source solutions
Experience in applying AI in sustainable manner in the development and test process