Job description
Group 1001is a consumer-centric, technology-driven family of insurance companies on a mission to deliver outstanding value and operational performance by combining financial strength and stability with deep insurance expertise and a can-do culture. Group1001’s culture emphasizes the importance of collaboration, communication, core business focus, risk management, and striving for outcomes. This goal extends to how we hire and onboard our most valuable assets – our employees.
Company Overview:
Gainbridge,a part of the Group 1001 enterprise, is a self-managed, innovative, digital platform providing its clients with direct access to trusted financial products to smartly grow their savings over time. Gainbridge strives to offer products through its platform that are simple, intuitive, and backed by smart technology with no complexity or hidden fees. Gainbridge empowers clients to take control of the financial future with simple solutions that are accessible to everyone no matter their budget.
Why This Role Matters:
We are seeking an experienced Staff Mobile Engineer to provide technical leadership for our mobile platform and shape the long-term architecture of our mobile applications. You will drive engineering strategy, solve complex technical challenges, influence technical direction across teams, and raise the engineering bar through mentorship and technical excellence.
How You'll Contribute:
Technical Leadership
Define and evolve the long-term architecture for React Native and native iOS applications.
Lead architecture reviews and establish engineering standards and best practices across the mobile platform.
Drive critical technical decisions around scalability, performance, security, and developer productivity.
Design reusable platform components and native modules that improve engineering velocity.
Partner with engineering leadership to shape the mobile technology roadmap.
Development & Delivery
Lead the implementation of complex, business-critical mobile initiatives.
Improve application performance, reliability, memory usage, and battery efficiency.
Drive testing strategy, release quality, and CI/CD improvements across the mobile platform.
Champion observability, monitoring, and operational excellence for mobile applications.
Collaboration & Mentorship
Mentor senior and junior engineers while growing technical capability across the organization.
Partner with Product, Design, Backend, Platform, and Security teams to deliver scalable solutions.
Lead technical planning for cross-team initiatives and build alignment on architectural decisions.
Document architectural decisions, technical standards, and engineering best practices.
What We're Looking For:
Technical Skills
8+ years of professional mobile development experience.
5+ years of production React Native development.
Expert proficiency in Swift and native iOS development.
Deep understanding of iOS SDK, UIKit, SwiftUI, application lifecycle, memory management, and concurrency.
Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and modern React Native architecture.
Experience designing scalable mobile architectures, reusable platform components, and styling systems using Uniwind/Tailwind.
Strong understanding of mobile security, performance optimization, and reliability.
Platform Expertise
Experience leading architecture for large-scale production mobile applications.
Expertise in App Store release management and mobile platform governance.
Strong understanding of Apple's Human Interface Guidelines.
Experience balancing React Native and native development based on technical requirements.
Knowledge of mobile security best practices, encryption, deep linking, push notifications, and background processing.
Tools & Practices
Git version control and collaborative workflows.
RESTful APIs and GraphQL integration.
Testing frameworks and mobile automation strategies.
CI/CD tools (Expo, GitLab).
Performance monitoring and observability tools.
Nice to Have
Experience with Android development (Kotlin/Java).
Contributions to open-source mobile projects.
Experience with Firebase, Sentry, or similar monitoring platforms.
Understanding of accessibility standards (WCAG, VoiceOver).
Familiarity with mobile analytics and A/B testing platforms.
Compensation:
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $190,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $250,000/year plus bonus in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
Benefits Highlights:
Employees who meet benefit eligibility guidelines and work 30 hours or more weekly, have the ability to enroll in Group 1001’s benefits package. Employees (and their families) are eligible to participate in the Company’s comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance plan options. Employees are also eligible for Basic and Supplemental Life Insurance, Short and Long-Term Disability. All employees (regardless of hours worked) have immediate access to the Company’s Employee Assistance Program and wellness programs—no enrollment is required. Employees may also participate in the Company’s 401K plan, with matching contributions by the Company.
Group 1001, and its affiliated companies, is strongly committed to providing a supportive work environment where employee differences are valued. Diversity is an essential ingredient in making Group 1001 a welcoming place to work and is fundamental in building a high-performance team. Diversity embodies all the differences that make us unique individuals. All employees share the responsibility for maintaining a workplace culture of dignity, respect, understanding and appreciation of individual and group differences.
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Who can apply
Eligible countries: United States. Accepted UTC offsets: UTC-10, UTC-9, UTC-8, UTC-7, UTC-6, UTC-5, UTC+14. Review the full description for employer-specific work authorization, residency and schedule requirements.