{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"a80ca02b6fcb98f18e8da830","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/a80ca02b6fcb98f18e8da830","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/a80ca02b6fcb98f18e8da830","title":"Lead Software Engineer – Mobile & Platforms","description":"Job Title: Lead Software Engineer – Mobile & Platforms\nLocation: Oakland, CA\nDuration: July 27, 2026 – July 26, 2027\nPay Rate: $100/hr. on W2 - ONLY W2\n\nAccount Manager Notes:\nLOCAL CANDIDATES ONLY. The role is hybrid, 2 days a month in the office.\nKEY SKILLS:\nTrusted technical leader with strong architectural judgment and a pragmatic approach to building scalable platforms\nEffective people and partner manager who builds strong teams, collaborates well across IT and Product, and holds external vendors accountable.\nAccountable, adaptable operator who drives delivery through ambiguity, anticipates risks, and communicates clearly in a regulated environment.\nLead Software Engineer – Mobile & Platforms\nLocation: Oakland, CA (Hybrid)\n\nJob Description:\n\nRole Overview\nProject Charlie is seeking a Lead Software Engineer – Mobile & Platforms to provide senior technical leadership for the design, development, and evolution of a new customer?facing mobile application platform. This role begins as a hands?on senior individual contributor and technical authority and will progressively build and lead a small internal engineering team as the platform matures.\nThe Lead Software Engineer owns mobile and backend architecture, guides implementation decisions, coordinates integration across systems, and leads delivery through technical direction, mentorship, and increasing team leadership responsibility.\n\nKey Responsibilities\nProvide hands?on technical leadership for the mobile application platform from initial design through launch monitoring, and ongoing evolution.\nDesign, implement, and maintain mobile applications, backend services, and supporting APIs.\nOwn and influence end-to-end solution architecture across mobile, cloud services, enterprise integrations, and platform dependencies.\nLead technical integration with internal systems, ensuring reliability, scalability, and long?term maintainability.\nDesign and integrate IoT, grid?edge, and device?generated data into backend services and customer?facing mobile experiences.\nPartner closely with internal IT, security, and platform teams to ensure compliance with technology standards, privacy, security, and regulatory requirements.\nServe as the technical authority for architecture decisions, design trade?offs, and implementation approaches.\nGuide and mentor engineers—internal and vendor—through design reviews, code reviews, and day?to?day technical leadership.\nProvide technical oversight and governance for external engineering vendors and contracted partners, ensuring quality and architectural consistency.\nContribute to delivery planning, dependency management, and mitigation of technical risk in partnership with Product and Program leadership.\nHelp define the engineering team structure and hiring approach, participating in hiring, onboarding, and development of a small internal team over time.\n\nMinimum Experience\n10+ years of software engineering experience with demonstrated technical leadership\nStrong background in:\no Mobile application development (iOS, Android, and/or cross-platform frameworks)\no Backend services, APIs, and cloud platforms\no System and solution architecture\nExperience designing or integrating systems that consume IoT, sensor, or device-generated data\nStrong hands?on coding capability across modern software stacks.\nProven ability to lead teams and influence without owning all implementation details\nExperience working with external vendors or consulting firms\n\nDesired Experience\nExperience building and scaling customer-facing digital products\nExperience with event-driven, or near-real-time data architectures\nExperience supporting products through launch and post?launch iteration\n\nDesired Characteristics\nTrusted technical leader with strong architectural judgment and a pragmatic approach to building scalable platforms\nEffective people and partner manager who builds strong teams, collaborates well across IT and Product, and holds external vendors accountable.\nAccountable, adaptable operator who drives delivery through ambiguity, anticipates risks, and communicates clearly in a regulated environment\n\nWhat Success Looks Like\nProduct and engineering move in lockstep, grounded in shared reality.\nThe Charlie platform scales without repeated re?architecture.\nInternal teams see Charlie as credible and worth aligning to.","company":"Global Software Resources","rawCompany":"global software resources","city":"Oakland","state":"CA","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-08-04T18:27:18.970Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"11-9041.00","title":"Architectural and Engineering Managers","slug":"architectural-and-engineering-managers"}],"industries":[{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Lead Software Engineer – Mobile & Platforms","description":"Job Title: Lead Software Engineer – Mobile & Platforms\nLocation: Oakland, CA\nDuration: July 27, 2026 – July 26, 2027\nPay Rate: $100/hr. on W2 - ONLY W2\n\nAccount Manager Notes:\nLOCAL CANDIDATES ONLY. The role is hybrid, 2 days a month in the office.\nKEY SKILLS:\nTrusted technical leader with strong architectural judgment and a pragmatic approach to building scalable platforms\nEffective people and partner manager who builds strong teams, collaborates well across IT and Product, and holds external vendors accountable.\nAccountable, adaptable operator who drives delivery through ambiguity, anticipates risks, and communicates clearly in a regulated environment.\nLead Software Engineer – Mobile & Platforms\nLocation: Oakland, CA (Hybrid)\n\nJob Description:\n\nRole Overview\nProject Charlie is seeking a Lead Software Engineer – Mobile & Platforms to provide senior technical leadership for the design, development, and evolution of a new customer?facing mobile application platform. This role begins as a hands?on senior individual contributor and technical authority and will progressively build and lead a small internal engineering team as the platform matures.\nThe Lead Software Engineer owns mobile and backend architecture, guides implementation decisions, coordinates integration across systems, and leads delivery through technical direction, mentorship, and increasing team leadership responsibility.\n\nKey Responsibilities\nProvide hands?on technical leadership for the mobile application platform from initial design through launch monitoring, and ongoing evolution.\nDesign, implement, and maintain mobile applications, backend services, and supporting APIs.\nOwn and influence end-to-end solution architecture across mobile, cloud services, enterprise integrations, and platform dependencies.\nLead technical integration with internal systems, ensuring reliability, scalability, and long?term maintainability.\nDesign and integrate IoT, grid?edge, and device?generated data into backend services and customer?facing mobile experiences.\nPartner closely with internal IT, security, and platform teams to ensure compliance with technology standards, privacy, security, and regulatory requirements.\nServe as the technical authority for architecture decisions, design trade?offs, and implementation approaches.\nGuide and mentor engineers—internal and vendor—through design reviews, code reviews, and day?to?day technical leadership.\nProvide technical oversight and governance for external engineering vendors and contracted partners, ensuring quality and architectural consistency.\nContribute to delivery planning, dependency management, and mitigation of technical risk in partnership with Product and Program leadership.\nHelp define the engineering team structure and hiring approach, participating in hiring, onboarding, and development of a small internal team over time.\n\nMinimum Experience\n10+ years of software engineering experience with demonstrated technical leadership\nStrong background in:\no Mobile application development (iOS, Android, and/or cross-platform frameworks)\no Backend services, APIs, and cloud platforms\no System and solution architecture\nExperience designing or integrating systems that consume IoT, sensor, or device-generated data\nStrong hands?on coding capability across modern software stacks.\nProven ability to lead teams and influence without owning all implementation details\nExperience working with external vendors or consulting firms\n\nDesired Experience\nExperience building and scaling customer-facing digital products\nExperience with event-driven, or near-real-time data architectures\nExperience supporting products through launch and post?launch iteration\n\nDesired Characteristics\nTrusted technical leader with strong architectural judgment and a pragmatic approach to building scalable platforms\nEffective people and partner manager who builds strong teams, collaborates well across IT and Product, and holds external vendors accountable.\nAccountable, adaptable operator who drives delivery through ambiguity, anticipates risks, and communicates clearly in a regulated environment\n\nWhat Success Looks Like\nProduct and engineering move in lockstep, grounded in shared reality.\nThe Charlie platform scales without repeated re?architecture.\nInternal teams see Charlie as credible and worth aligning to.","datePosted":"2026-08-04T18:27:18.970Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T18:27:18.970Z","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Global Software Resources","sameAs":"https://jobsearcher.com"},"jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Oakland","addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"US"}},"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"JobSearcher","value":"a80ca02b6fcb98f18e8da830"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/a80ca02b6fcb98f18e8da830"}}