Founding Engineer, Consumer Apps

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $200k - $240k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🖥 Software Engineer

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Placer.ai

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2016

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

🏨 Hospitality

Consulting • Marketing • Hospitality

Placer. ai is a location analytics company that provides businesses with insights into foot traffic and consumer behavior based on physical world location data. Their platform utilizes location information to help retail, real estate, and city planning industries make informed decisions. The company leverages big data and advanced analytics to transform location data into actionable intelligence, driving improvements in marketing effectiveness, site selection, and operational efficiency.

📋 Description

• Architect, build and ship Placer's first consumer apps on Android and iOS, plus scalable backend services • Own the consumer experience from onboarding and permissions through engagement and retention • Build permission and consent flows compliant with App Store and Google Play policies • Instrument attribution, installation, registration, permission grants, engagement and retention funnels • Own analytics, A/B testing, experimentation design and funnel reporting • Ship small experiments rapidly, own releases, store submissions and review responses • Use AI coding, design and testing tools as the default development approach • Integrate Placer's existing data collection technology while maintaining privacy requirements • Build fraud and abuse controls for device integrity, location spoofing, emulators and duplicate accounts • Make technical decisions on stack, architecture and vendors; own monitoring, alerting, reliability and cost in production • Help hire and mentor future engineers and establish team practices

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience • 6+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 4 years on B2C products • Shipped consumer-facing mobile apps for the general public • Passion for UX, with shipped consumer experiences to walk through screen by screen • Comfortable shipping imperfect first versions, reading data, and discarding work that does not perform • Mastery of AI development tools such as coding agents and AI-assisted design, testing and code review • Experience taking at least one consumer app from zero to launch as a founding or early engineer and scaling it after launch • Deep expertise on one native platform: Android/Kotlin or iOS/Swift, and working fluency on the other; or equivalent cross-platform experience with native modules • Experience integrating SDKs into consumer mobile apps • Backend experience building APIs and data services on a cloud platform; Python and GCP preferred • Direct experience with App Store and Google Play review, including data-safety declarations and policy rejections • Clear written and verbal communication and judgment to raise risks early

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary • Excellent benefits • Fully remote • Medical coverage • Dental coverage • Vision coverage • Flexible time off • 401K • Equity awards for certain roles • Global remote workforce • Drug-free workplace