Mobile Architect

• Define and champion the mobile architectural vision and long-term technical roadmap, ensuring alignment with overall product strategy and cross-platform consistency.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to senior engineers across teams, elevating the quality and security of all mobile engineering practices.
• Lead the architectural review and decision-making process for foundational components and core platform initiatives
• Collaborate with Product Management, Security, and other Engineering leaders to translate high-level requirements into robust and future-proof architectural designs.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in the mobile space, especially macOS/iOS development, evaluating and recommending new architectural approaches, tools, and platforms.
• Contribute to high-level technical designs, architectural proposals, and documentation that set the standard for the organization.
• Oversee and participate in critical code reviews to ensure adherence to architectural best practices, security standards, and performance criteria.

• 18+ years of software development experience, with at least 8 years of experience in setting the technical direction and architecting large-scale enterprise software with a primary focus on the macOS/iOS ecosystem.
• Expert-level proficiency in Swift/Objective-C, Appkit/SwiftUI for UI, iOS/macOS internals, system extensions, OSQuery, app permission models and a deep architectural understanding of the relevant frameworks
• Strong understanding of the Android platform and related technologies (e.g., Kotlin, Java, Android SDK) would be the required secondary skill.
• Extensive experience designing and implementing highly secure, performant, and resilient cross-platform mobile solutions.
• Proven ability to thrive in agile environments, utilizing continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) to ensure rapid and reliable software delivery.
• Exceptional communication, presentation, and negotiation skills, with the ability to articulate complex architectural concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences across functions.

• Understanding of Identity and Access Management protocols and architecture (FIDO, U2F, WebAuth, SSO, SAML, Kerberos, OAuth, Federation, etc.)
• Security or Systems development experience on Android, such as root detection, code signing, or tamper resistance experience, PKI, SafetyNet.
• Knowledge of Mobile Device Management.
• Experience working on public-facing SDKs.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Master’s degree in Computer Science

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