Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Optum Tech is a global leader in health care innovation, developing data analytics, AI, cybersecurity, and other solutions to improve health care. The Lead Mobile Software Engineer will lead the design and evolution of scalable iOS and Android mobile platforms, drive React Native and native modernization, integrate AI-enabled capabilities, and provide architectural guidance and mentorship.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the technical roadmap across cross-platform (React Native) and native (iOS, Android) mobile solutions
- Deliver clean, scalable, and maintainable mobile code across platform layers while establishing shared libraries, SDKs, and platform components
- Lead the adoption and evolution of React Native while supporting and modernizing native mobile capabilities
- Ensure high-performance, secure, and reliable mobile applications across enterprise platform solutions
- Design, develop, and integrate AI-powered capabilities into mobile platform solutions to address complex business challenges with an emphasis on responsible and secure AI implementation
- Leverage enterprise-approved AI tools to streamline workflows, automate tasks, and drive engineering productivity and continuous improvement
- Partner with product, backend, and design teams to deliver seamless user experiences
- Evaluate emerging trends and modern technologies to inform solution design and strategic innovation
- Provide technical leadership, architectural guidance, and mentorship to engineers across the mobile platform
Skills
- 7+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on mobile application development
- 3+ years of experience with cross-platform frameworks (React Native preferred) or native mobile development (iOS with Swift and/or Android with Kotlin/Java)
- 2+ years leading large-scale mobile initiatives or providing technical leadership
- Demonstrated experience building and architecting scalable mobile platforms
- Experience working with APIs (REST/GraphQL), cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and modern engineering practices
- Applied experience leveraging or integrating AI-enabled capabilities, AI-powered tools, or AI-assisted engineering practices within software delivery environments
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- Experience with React Native in production environments
- Experience guiding teams through platform transitions, such as native to cross-platform architectures
- Experience designing, developing, or integrating AI/ML capabilities into production mobile platform solutions
- Experience building platform-level or enterprise shared mobile capabilities
- Deep understanding of global-scale application performance, security, and reliability
Benefits
- A comprehensive benefits package, subject to eligibility requirements
- Incentive and recognition programs, subject to eligibility requirements
- Equity stock purchase, subject to eligibility requirements
- 401k contribution, subject to eligibility requirements
- Remote work from anywhere within the U.S.; Minneapolis and Washington, D.C. area hires are required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week
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