{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"64473191aac12f229ec5f7e0","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/64473191aac12f229ec5f7e0","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/64473191aac12f229ec5f7e0","title":"Sr. Software Engineer - Full Stack (NGL) (Remote)","description":"Who We Are\r\nMode Mobile builds products that allow millions of users to earn rewards from the content, communities, and experiences they already love. Through organic growth and strategic acquisitions, we operate and scale high-traffic consumer platforms used by tens of millions of users worldwide.\r\nOne of our newest platforms, NGL, is a viral, Gen-Z social product built around anonymous messaging, creator dynamics, and authentic self-expression, reaching over 144 million monthly users across web and mobile (121 million on web, 23 million on mobile). The platform combines massive scale, rapid iteration, and meaningful opportunities for experimentation, monetization, and infrastructure evolution. We are investing deeply in engineering to support its next phase of growth.\r\nOur culture values ownership, curiosity, speed, and accountability. We expect engineers to think like product owners, move quickly with intention, and care deeply about quality, users, and the outcomes they deliver.\r\nOur Team and Culture Drive Our Success\r\nOur team is the heart of our culture. We value innovation, collaboration, and curiosity, with a passion for getting things done. We strive to hire and cultivate the best team members and foster a culture of open communication and transparency. We are driven and hard-working but also committed to having fun along the way. We allow OKRs to guide us, assume positive intent, sometimes agree to disagree and commit, honor our commitments, seek to accomplish more with less, and encourage everyone to speak up as our team owns our company's success.\r\nYou can read more about our team and how we work here.\r\nAbout the Role\r\nWe are looking for a Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack) to help build, scale, and evolve NGL, a high-traffic social platform used by millions of people every day.\r\nIn this role, you will primarily work on the NGL mobile apps while contributing to backend services, web development, and infrastructure, and partnering closely with Product, Design, Data, and Growth. You'll own features end-to-end, from technical design through production, making architectural tradeoffs, ensuring production readiness, and contributing to system scalability, performance, and reliability.\r\nThis is a hands-on senior IC role for someone who thrives in fast-moving environments, cares about product outcomes, and enjoys solving complex engineering problems at scale.\r\nWhat You'll Do\r\nBuild & Ship High-Impact Features\r\nDesign, implement, and ship full-stack features supporting messaging, engagement, notifications, creator workflows, safety, and monetization.\r\nContribute across mobile, web, and backend services/APIs.\r\nBreak down complex product requirements into clear technical designs and deliverables.\r\nMobile & Frontend Contributions\r\nContribute to React Native and Swift codebases.\r\nPartner with Design and Product to deliver intuitive, performant user experiences.\r\nBackend & Platform Engineering\r\nBuild and update APIs using Node.js / TypeScript, primarily within Firebase-based systems.\r\nDesign systems for high throughput, low latency, and global traffic spikes.\r\nReliability, Performance & Scale\r\nImprove system performance, observability, and operational excellence.\r\nParticipate in on-call rotations and lead production issue investigation and resolution when needed.\r\nProactively identify and address scalability bottlenecks through profiling, refactoring, and architectural improvements.\r\nExperimentation & Iteration\r\nPartner with Product and Data to run experiments, A/B tests, and rapid iteration cycles.\r\nUse metrics and experimentation results to inform engineering decisions.\r\nSupport new monetization models and feature launches through fast, reliable execution.\r\nCollaboration & Technical Leadership\r\nCollaborate closely with Product Managers, Designers, Data, and Growth partners.\r\nActively participate in and help drive technical design reviews and architecture discussions.\r\nMentor junior and mid-level engineers through thoughtful code reviews, pairing, and knowledge sharing.\r\nContribute to engineering standards, documentation, and best practices.\r\nWhat You Bring\r\nRequired\r\n5+ years of professional software engineering experience.\r\nDirect experience working on consumer-facing products with high traffic and real-world performance constraints.\r\nStrong experience with React Native and Swift mobile app development.\r\nExperience with building APIs and backend services.\r\nProficiency in JavaScript / TypeScript.\r\nStrong product-mindset.\r\nStrong understanding of APIs, distributed systems, and data modeling.\r\nAbility to ship quickly while maintaining system quality, security, and long-term maintainability.\r\nClear communicator who collaborates effectively across functions.\r\nAlignment with our core values\r\nAccountable : You take ownership of your responsibilities, demonstrating trustworthiness and self-discipline. You are consistent in your work, transparent in your actions, and communicate effectively. You follow through on commitments and strive for continuous improvement.\r\nAction-driven : Identify what is most important, agree on scope, execute in a timely manner, and drive the greatest impact. You take initiative, roll up your sleeves, and get things done.\r\nCaring : You genuinely care about yourself and others, our business and craft, our mission and vision, and are passionate in heart and mind. You understand the importance of our team and strive to create a positive, supportive work environment.\r\nCurious : You focus on the \"why,\" learn and expand your knowledge, explore new ideas, and generally make things better. You're a lifelong learner with a thirst for knowledge and a constant desire to improve.\r\nThorough : Your work is thoughtful, impactful, timely, accurate, and complete. You pay attention to detail, are meticulous, and ensure quality work and compliance.\r\nNice to Have\r\nExperience with Firebase Functions and Firestore.\r\nExperience working on social, messaging, creator, or community-driven platforms.\r\nFamiliarity with real-time systems, event-driven architectures, or moderation/safety systems.\r\nExperience supporting experimentation frameworks, feature flagging, and A/B testing.\r\nExposure to high-scale platforms (millions of MAU).\r\nExperience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Cursor, Copilot).\r\nWhy You'll Love This Role\r\nWork on a product used by millions of people globally.\r\nHigh ownership, autonomy, and real product impact.\r\nCollaborative, fast-moving environment with strong engineering leadership.\r\nMeaningful influence on product direction, scalability, and monetization.\r\nWe Believe in the Following Workplace Norms\r\nAllow OKRs to Guide Us\r\nAssume Positive Intent\r\nAgree to Disagree & Commit\r\nSet New Precedents\r\nAccomplish More with Less\r\nHold Yourself & Others to High Standards\r\nSpeak Up\r\nBe Resourceful\r\nFollow the 80/20 Rule\r\nWhat We Are Offering\r\nWe are a 100% remote-first, global company.\r\nA competitive compensation package.\r\nWe offer generous perks & benefits to team members.\r\nParticipation in the Company's equity plan (for full-time team members).\r\nWe provide individual bonuses in accordance with our Company Bonus Program.\r\nWork with energetic, passionate, and results-driven people.\r\nCelebrate team members' personal and work milestones.\r\nRemote social activities, including virtual coffee buddies.\r\nBonusly – We useBonusly as a way to recognize and reward team members for their hard work and commitment.\r\nWeekly Wednesday Get Stuff Done Days (No Meetings).\r\nOpen PTO, generous Company Holidays, and Wellness Days (for full-time team members).\r\nIf we just described you and your perfect role, we'd love to talk with you. We have a lot to accomplish this year and look forward to making headway and creating success together!\r\nMode Mobile does not accept/pay fees for unsolicited resumes from third-party agencies/vendors.\r\nOur company is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer. We are committed to providing a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. 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Through organic growth and strategic acquisitions, we operate and scale high-traffic consumer platforms used by tens of millions of users worldwide.\r\nOne of our newest platforms, NGL, is a viral, Gen-Z social product built around anonymous messaging, creator dynamics, and authentic self-expression, reaching over 144 million monthly users across web and mobile (121 million on web, 23 million on mobile). The platform combines massive scale, rapid iteration, and meaningful opportunities for experimentation, monetization, and infrastructure evolution. We are investing deeply in engineering to support its next phase of growth.\r\nOur culture values ownership, curiosity, speed, and accountability. We expect engineers to think like product owners, move quickly with intention, and care deeply about quality, users, and the outcomes they deliver.\r\nOur Team and Culture Drive Our Success\r\nOur team is the heart of our culture. We value innovation, collaboration, and curiosity, with a passion for getting things done. We strive to hire and cultivate the best team members and foster a culture of open communication and transparency. We are driven and hard-working but also committed to having fun along the way. We allow OKRs to guide us, assume positive intent, sometimes agree to disagree and commit, honor our commitments, seek to accomplish more with less, and encourage everyone to speak up as our team owns our company's success.\r\nYou can read more about our team and how we work here.\r\nAbout the Role\r\nWe are looking for a Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack) to help build, scale, and evolve NGL, a high-traffic social platform used by millions of people every day.\r\nIn this role, you will primarily work on the NGL mobile apps while contributing to backend services, web development, and infrastructure, and partnering closely with Product, Design, Data, and Growth. You'll own features end-to-end, from technical design through production, making architectural tradeoffs, ensuring production readiness, and contributing to system scalability, performance, and reliability.\r\nThis is a hands-on senior IC role for someone who thrives in fast-moving environments, cares about product outcomes, and enjoys solving complex engineering problems at scale.\r\nWhat You'll Do\r\nBuild & Ship High-Impact Features\r\nDesign, implement, and ship full-stack features supporting messaging, engagement, notifications, creator workflows, safety, and monetization.\r\nContribute across mobile, web, and backend services/APIs.\r\nBreak down complex product requirements into clear technical designs and deliverables.\r\nMobile & Frontend Contributions\r\nContribute to React Native and Swift codebases.\r\nPartner with Design and Product to deliver intuitive, performant user experiences.\r\nBackend & Platform Engineering\r\nBuild and update APIs using Node.js / TypeScript, primarily within Firebase-based systems.\r\nDesign systems for high throughput, low latency, and global traffic spikes.\r\nReliability, Performance & Scale\r\nImprove system performance, observability, and operational excellence.\r\nParticipate in on-call rotations and lead production issue investigation and resolution when needed.\r\nProactively identify and address scalability bottlenecks through profiling, refactoring, and architectural improvements.\r\nExperimentation & Iteration\r\nPartner with Product and Data to run experiments, A/B tests, and rapid iteration cycles.\r\nUse metrics and experimentation results to inform engineering decisions.\r\nSupport new monetization models and feature launches through fast, reliable execution.\r\nCollaboration & Technical Leadership\r\nCollaborate closely with Product Managers, Designers, Data, and Growth partners.\r\nActively participate in and help drive technical design reviews and architecture discussions.\r\nMentor junior and mid-level engineers through thoughtful code reviews, pairing, and knowledge sharing.\r\nContribute to engineering standards, documentation, and best practices.\r\nWhat You Bring\r\nRequired\r\n5+ years of professional software engineering experience.\r\nDirect experience working on consumer-facing products with high traffic and real-world performance constraints.\r\nStrong experience with React Native and Swift mobile app development.\r\nExperience with building APIs and backend services.\r\nProficiency in JavaScript / TypeScript.\r\nStrong product-mindset.\r\nStrong understanding of APIs, distributed systems, and data modeling.\r\nAbility to ship quickly while maintaining system quality, security, and long-term maintainability.\r\nClear communicator who collaborates effectively across functions.\r\nAlignment with our core values\r\nAccountable : You take ownership of your responsibilities, demonstrating trustworthiness and self-discipline. You are consistent in your work, transparent in your actions, and communicate effectively. You follow through on commitments and strive for continuous improvement.\r\nAction-driven : Identify what is most important, agree on scope, execute in a timely manner, and drive the greatest impact. You take initiative, roll up your sleeves, and get things done.\r\nCaring : You genuinely care about yourself and others, our business and craft, our mission and vision, and are passionate in heart and mind. You understand the importance of our team and strive to create a positive, supportive work environment.\r\nCurious : You focus on the \"why,\" learn and expand your knowledge, explore new ideas, and generally make things better. You're a lifelong learner with a thirst for knowledge and a constant desire to improve.\r\nThorough : Your work is thoughtful, impactful, timely, accurate, and complete. You pay attention to detail, are meticulous, and ensure quality work and compliance.\r\nNice to Have\r\nExperience with Firebase Functions and Firestore.\r\nExperience working on social, messaging, creator, or community-driven platforms.\r\nFamiliarity with real-time systems, event-driven architectures, or moderation/safety systems.\r\nExperience supporting experimentation frameworks, feature flagging, and A/B testing.\r\nExposure to high-scale platforms (millions of MAU).\r\nExperience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Cursor, Copilot).\r\nWhy You'll Love This Role\r\nWork on a product used by millions of people globally.\r\nHigh ownership, autonomy, and real product impact.\r\nCollaborative, fast-moving environment with strong engineering leadership.\r\nMeaningful influence on product direction, scalability, and monetization.\r\nWe Believe in the Following Workplace Norms\r\nAllow OKRs to Guide Us\r\nAssume Positive Intent\r\nAgree to Disagree & Commit\r\nSet New Precedents\r\nAccomplish More with Less\r\nHold Yourself & Others to High Standards\r\nSpeak Up\r\nBe Resourceful\r\nFollow the 80/20 Rule\r\nWhat We Are Offering\r\nWe are a 100% remote-first, global company.\r\nA competitive compensation package.\r\nWe offer generous perks & benefits to team members.\r\nParticipation in the Company's equity plan (for full-time team members).\r\nWe provide individual bonuses in accordance with our Company Bonus Program.\r\nWork with energetic, passionate, and results-driven people.\r\nCelebrate team members' personal and work milestones.\r\nRemote social activities, including virtual coffee buddies.\r\nBonusly – We useBonusly as a way to recognize and reward team members for their hard work and commitment.\r\nWeekly Wednesday Get Stuff Done Days (No Meetings).\r\nOpen PTO, generous Company Holidays, and Wellness Days (for full-time team members).\r\nIf we just described you and your perfect role, we'd love to talk with you. We have a lot to accomplish this year and look forward to making headway and creating success together!\r\nMode Mobile does not accept/pay fees for unsolicited resumes from third-party agencies/vendors.\r\nOur company is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer. We are committed to providing a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. 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