tastytrade is looking to shape the long-term technical direction of their iOS and Android retail trading platforms by ensuring the mobile applications remain scalable, reliable, and forward-looking. They need to balance short-term product delivery with long-term platform health and improve developer experience, system performance, or process efficiency across mobile teams.
Requirements
- Deep expertise in either iOS (Swift) or Android (Kotlin, Java) ecosystems, with a strong understanding of the other.
- A track record of designing and delivering complex, high-impact mobile features at scale.
- Strong experience leading technical discovery, architectural decision-making, and roadmap planning.
- A deep understanding of legacy system sunsetting and how to balance business delivery with long-term technical health.
- Strong ability to create alignment across multiple platforms and teams, driving consensus on architectural decisions.
- Comfort navigating and refactoring complex, business-critical code with a focus on safety, testing, and rollout strategies.
- Experience mentoring engineers and uplifting the overall technical quality of a team.
Responsibilities
- Remain an active developer and problem-solver, especially in critical or high-risk areas for both iOS (Swift) and Android (Kotlin, Java).
- Align mobile initiatives with backend, infrastructure, and platform teams to ensure cohesive technical strategies.
- Drive the technical design and architecture for large, cross-cutting features across iOS and Android, from business needs to delivery.
- Provide clear implementation plans that balance scalability, performance, and maintainability.
- Define and guide the implementation of new native modules that replace shared library functionality, ensuring performance, maintainability, and aligning them with platform best practices.
- Lead technical discovery and provide reliable effort estimates for large-scale features or initiatives, communicating trade-offs and risks effectively.
- Ideate and recommend new paradigms, tools, or frameworks to improve developer experience, system performance, or process efficiency across mobile teams.
Other
- Hybrid work model (3 days/week in office)
- Communicate technical trade-offs to both engineers and business stakeholders.
- The ability to learn quickly in areas in which you don't already have deep expertise.
- A willingness to learn new languages, frameworks, or technologies beyond your current expertise.
- A bias toward action: you can move fluidly between strategy and execution, ensuring high-quality results.
