Mobile Principal Software Engineer

🔥 18 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Dscout

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2011

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

💰 $70M Series C - Dscout on 2022-03

SaaS • B2B

Dscout is an experience research SaaS platform that helps teams recruit engaged participants, run usability tests, field studies, diary studies, interviews and media-rich surveys, and analyze qualitative and quantitative feedback. It provides a verified participant panel (“Scouts”), study templates and admin tools, and AI-assisted tagging and analysis to speed insight discovery and decision-making for product and UX teams.

📋 Description

• Lead the mobile team and its continued maturity and evolution in an AI-native space • Establish an AI-native development process for the mobile team, including agents, evaluations, and review loops • Drive a thin-client architecture for the participant experience, moving business logic to the backend • Contribute Python to the AI backend service when mobile needs new capabilities • Set participant API and broader participant platform direction beyond the mobile team • Spend approximately 70% of time supporting the product team and 30% on self-directed leadership and platform improvements • Drive continuous process improvement across the mobile team and partner teams • Mentor engineers and help evolve the Engineering organization • Improve the Continuous Delivery pipeline and operational aspects of the SaaS and mobile platform • Participate in security and compliance efforts

🎯 Requirements

• Significant experience as a mobile software engineer with Principal/Staff-level scope • 10+ years of experience evolving apps and standing up new ones across product and technical dimensions • Experience with iOS and Android • Willingness to work outside the mobile ecosystem when the problem calls for it • Hands-on experience with AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or similar • Opinion on how to design an SDLC around AI coding agents • Experience in system architecture, including backend API design, databases, and mobile DevOps • Proven track record of leading, mentoring, and growing engineers • Expertise with cloud-based SaaS architectures and evolutionary design • Familiarity with agile, DevOps, CI/CD, observability/tracing, and data/metrics-based decision making • Availability during 9:30 AM–5:00 PM CT • Ability to work in an eligible US location; Dscout cannot hire in Montana, Hawaii, Alaska, or Washington DC

🏖️ Benefits

• A strong and competitive compensation package with a built-in bonus and equity program • Flexible PTO • 15 company holidays • 12 weeks of paid parental leave • 401k match • Education stipend to support growth and development • Remote work stipend • Benefits package for employees and dependents • Flexible work arrangements / remote-first workforce • Open and transparent company culture