Airwallex
Staff Mobile Engineer, Foundation
$180K–$300K
US - San Francisco · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
- Experience
- 8–10+ years building native mobile applications, including at least 3+ years operating at Senior or Staff level.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads the technical direction of Airwallex’s native iOS and Android foundations, building shared architecture, libraries, and tooling that help product teams deliver reliable mobile apps.
What you'll do
- Define shared mobile architecture and own platform capabilities such as design system components, analytics, feature flags, authentication, and observability.
- Improve mobile security, reliability, performance, and CI/CD workflows across iOS and Android.
- Lead cross-team technical initiatives and raise engineering standards through reviews, mentoring, documentation, and automation.
What they ask for
- 8–10+ years building native mobile applications on iOS or Android, including at least 3+ years at Senior or Staff level.
- Deep expertise in one native platform: Swift, SwiftUI, Combine, and async/await, or Kotlin, AndroidX, Jetpack, Coroutines, and Hilt; commercial knowledge of both platforms.
- Track record leading cross-team technical initiatives and evolving mobile architecture; experience improving mobile CI/CD pipelines and mobile security, performance, reliability, observability, or release engineering.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Nice to have
- Experience defining a mobile platform roadmap or owning shared mobile libraries/frameworks used by multiple teams.
- Experience with mobile design systems, analytics, experimentation, feature flagging, or observability tools such as Crashlytics or Sentry.
Pay
USD $180K – $300K base salary
Tools
Swift, SwiftUI, Combine, async/await, Kotlin, AndroidX, Jetpack, Coroutines
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