Full-Time
Lead Software Engineer
Mobile
Posted on 8/24/2026
Freshworks
5,001-10,000 employees
Cloud-based CRM and customer engagement suite
No salary listed
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with 6+ years building and shipping production iOS applications.
- 2+ years in a technical leadership role—tech lead, lead engineer, or equivalent—owning architecture and outcomes for a team of engineers.
- Expert-level Swift with strong Objective-C interop and deep command of the iOS SDK, Xcode, Instruments, and the full debugging toolchain.
- Demonstrated ownership of a non-trivial mobile architecture at scale, including modularization and dependency management with SPM or CocoaPods.
- Deep expertise in concurrency and multithreading, including GCD, Swift Concurrency, async-await, actors, memory management, and race/deadlock diagnosis.
- Strong experience with UIKit and SwiftUI, plus reactive or asynchronous patterns such as Combine or equivalent.
- Proven experience with cross-platform delivery using Flutter and Dart or React Native, with sound judgment about when not to use cross-platform technology.
- Experience with data persistence and offline-first design using Core Data, SQLite, or Realm, including migrations and conflict resolution.
- Ownership of mobile CI/CD end to end, including Fastlane, GitHub Actions, code signing, provisioning, and App Store Connect release operations.
- A track record of driving measurable improvements in app performance, stability, or engineering velocity.
- Strong grounding in object-oriented programming, design patterns, SOLID, data structures, and algorithms.
- Strong written communication for design documents, RFCs, and post-mortems.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor and level up engineers and build consensus across teams without formal authority.
- Extensive experience with Agile methodologies and strong working knowledge of the software development life cycle.
- Data-driven decision-making and comfort operating with ambiguity in a fast-paced environment.
- Own and evolve the mobile architecture across the app portfolio, including modularization, dependency boundaries, state management, navigation, and offline/sync strategy.
- Make and document technical decisions about native Swift versus Flutter or React Native, third-party SDK adoption, and persistence and caching strategy, including trade-off analysis and migration paths.
- Author and drive technical design documents, run design reviews, and uphold SOLID, clean architecture, and pattern consistency across MVVM, VIPER, Coordinator, and unidirectional data flow.
- Lead large-scale refactors and platform migrations, such as UIKit to SwiftUI and monolith to modular packages, using incremental, low-risk rollout plans.
- Identify and remove systemic technical debt and maintain a prioritized architecture backlog with Product and Engineering Management.
- Break down ambiguous, multi-quarter product initiatives into scoped, sequenced, estimable work for the team.
- Personally deliver the highest-risk components, prototypes, and performance-critical paths.
- Own the release train, including versioning, release branching, phased rollouts, App Store submission and review escalations, kill switches, and rollback procedures.
- Own build and developer productivity, including build times, flaky-test elimination, local development setup, and CI/CD reliability.
- Drive integration contracts with backend teams for RESTful and GraphQL APIs, including versioning, backward compatibility, and error-handling standards.
- Define and enforce the quality bar through unit, integration, snapshot, and UI testing; code-coverage expectations; and mandatory quality gates in CI.
- Own crash-free-session rate, ANR/hang rate, cold-start and frame-rate budgets, app size, and battery/network efficiency; set targets and report against them.
- Instrument and profile with Instruments, MetricKit, and Xcode Organizer, and lead performance investigations across app, SDK, and backend boundaries.
- Act as incident commander for production mobile incidents by triaging, mitigating, communicating, and running blameless post-mortems with tracked action items.
- Define observability standards for crash reporting, structured logging, analytics events, feature flags, and remote configuration using Crashlytics, Sentry, and Firebase Remote Config.
- Mentor senior, mid-level, and junior engineers and grow at least one engineer to the next level through structured feedback and stretch ownership.
- Own code-review culture by setting expectations for review depth and turnaround and coaching through reviews.
- Drive the hiring bar for mobile by designing and calibrating interview loops, conducting architecture and coding interviews, and supporting onboarding.
- Provide input to Engineering Managers on performance, growth, and team composition.
- Represent mobile engineering in cross-functional and cross-organizational forums and influence platform, design-system, and API decisions.
- Write and evangelize internal standards, playbooks, and documentation and run knowledge-sharing sessions and guild forums.
- Partner with Product to shape scope and sequencing, surface technical constraints, and propose lower-cost paths to equivalent outcomes.
- Define success metrics with Product, including adoption, engagement, crash rate, and task completion, and drive data-based iteration.
- Assess feasibility and effort for new initiatives and provide estimates with explicit assumptions and risks.
- Implement and support compliance with Freshworks compliance and information-security processes, including secure-coding practices, data-handling requirements, and privacy/App Store policy obligations.
- Experience leading a UIKit to SwiftUI or native to cross-platform migration in production.
- Mobile security depth in Keychain, certificate pinning, encryption at rest, jailbreak/tamper detection, and OWASP MASVS.
- Experience building and maintaining shared SDKs, internal libraries, or a design system consumed by multiple apps.
- Experience with GraphQL on mobile, including caching and schema evolution.
- Experience with experimentation platforms, feature flagging, and progressive delivery at scale.
- Familiarity with Android and Kotlin sufficient to reason about parity and shared architecture decisions.
- Experience in B2B SaaS, multi-tenant, or enterprise mobility, including MDM, SSO/SAML, and on-premises constraints.
- Accessibility experience with VoiceOver and Dynamic Type and internationalization at scale.
- Open-source contributions, conference talks, or active participation in iOS developer communities.
Freshworks provides a cloud-based suite of customer engagement and internal operations software. It offers modules for customer support (Freshdesk), sales automation (Freshsales), marketing automation (Freshmarketer), IT service management (Freshservice), and HR management (Freshteam), all on a single SaaS platform with data flowing between apps and a marketplace for third-party integrations. Customers subscribe to tiered plans and deploy quickly. The platform serves small to large businesses across many industries, aiming to help teams collaborate and work more efficiently by unifying customer interactions and internal processes.
Company Size
5,001-10,000
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
San Mateo, California
Founded
2010
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Q2 2026 revenue hit $237.4 million, up 16%, with GAAP profit of $3.2 million.
- More than 7,000 customers paid for AI products, and Copilot attached to 70%+ large deals.
- EX ARR reached $567 million in August 2026, growing 23% and exceeding 59% of ARR.
What critics are saying
- CX ARR grew only 3% in Q2 2026, leaving Freshworks dependent on EX.
- May 2026 layoffs cut 500 jobs, signaling continued reorganization and morale damage.
- Zoho sued Freshworks on March 13, 2026 over trade secrets; discovery and injunction risk.
What makes Freshworks unique
- Freshworks bundles Freshservice, Freshdesk Omni, and Freddy AI into one service platform.
- FireHydrant's January 2026 acquisition deepened ITOM, incident response, and reliability workflows.
- Ryan Manning joined August 2026 from ServiceNow to sharpen AI and service-management execution.
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Qure.ai appoints Mihir Bhanushali as Executive Vice President, Global Health. August 26, 2026 | Wednesday | News Seasoned commercial leader to scale early diagnosis, frontline care and Qure.ai's clinical co-pilot Aira. Mumbai-based Qure.ai, an AI technology company focused on healthcare, has announced the appointment of Mihir Bhanushali as Executive Vice President, Global Health, as the company deepens its investment in AI-powered healthcare across low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Bhanushali joins Qure.ai from Freshworks, where he was Senior Director, Global Sales. A seasoned commercial leader, he has built and scaled high-growth businesses across global markets, with earlier leadership roles at Rippling and Whatfix spanning sales, go-to-market strategy and commercial transformation. At Qure.ai, Bhanushali will lead the next phase of the company's growth across LMICs, with a focus on Africa, Southeast Asia, South Asia and Latin America. His mandate spans the company's solutions for infectious diseases, including tuberculosis and HIV, and care delivery across frontline health systems. Qure.ai is expanding beyond screening and early diagnosis into broader care delivery. At the centre of this expansion is Aira, Qure.ai's AI doctor and clinical co-pilot for frontline healthcare, which brings clinical intelligence, digital workflows and care coordination closer to the point of care, with applications across primary care, telemedicine, HIV, infectious diseases and pandemic preparedness. Survey box. Is Indian pharma rewriting its acquisition strategy?
Modernising enterprise service management with a SaaS-first, omnichannel platform. First Digital runs a major fashion retailer's enterprise service management on Freshworks' Freshservice, from Azure single sign-on to WhatsApp live chat, across roughly 1 400 agents. The challenge. The retailer mandated a review of its enterprise service management tooling with two clear goals: to mature and expand service management capability across the enterprise, and to secure a sound, future-fit technology investment. It needed a single, scalable SaaS platform that could modernise increasingly manual ways of working and reduce its dependency on bespoke, custom-coded solutions, without compromising on enterprise governance or cost control. The approach. Partnering with First Digital, the retailer selected Freshworks' Freshservice as its strategic ESM platform. The decision was anchored in Freshservice's comprehensive, SaaS-first enterprise capabilities, its potential for rapid time to value and its ability to reduce reliance on in-house development, backed by enterprise-grade vendor commitments covering platform availability, support, dedicated account engagement and product training. Delivery was hands-on and collaborative. The teams met in person at kick-off and at critical milestones, blended in-person and remote work to keep delivery moving, and trained users directly on the retailer's own platform build so the business stayed close to the solution throughout.
Freshworks named a Leader in the 2026 gartner(r) Magic quadrant(tm) for IT Service Management Platforms. August 17, 2026 Artificial intelligence (AI) has reset what employees expect from service, infrastructure is harder to see and govern and service management is no longer just about managing tickets, it requires deep infrastructure and asset context to drive reliable outcomes. Carahsoft Technology Corp. is proud to share that Freshworks has been named a Leader for IT Service Management Platforms. Carahsoft Technology Corp. believe this recognition reflects its commitment to building Freshservice into an AI-powered, unified service operations platform for agile enterprises. Organizations that need depth, governance and scale without the operational drag of legacy platforms. IT Service Management (ITSM) platforms boost teams' efficiency by automating processes, streamlining decision making and providing seamless integration with third-party applications. These platforms enhance the end-user experience and help IT services remain agile and aligned with business goals. Leaders as described by Gartner. "Leaders have demonstrated strong execution, broad market reach and high customer awareness, as reflected in Gartner client interactions, growth and market presence. These vendors present a clear vision that addresses key challenges facing I&O teams, such as the influence of product teams, support for agile and DevOps environments, delivering impactful employee experiences and enabling more proactive and responsive ITSM practices in a highly integrated environment. These vendors demonstrate a good understanding of the role both human and AI agents play in this space and address both in their strategies and messaging. They possess the product, marketing and sales capabilities necessary to drive market acceptance." * Gartner, Magic Quadrant for IT Service Management Platforms, Rich Doheny, Jen Lichucki, 27 July 2026 Freshworks is a Leader in this Magic Quadrant. Founded in 2010, it is a public company headquartered in San Mateo, California, U.S. Its operations are global and it targets midsize organizations from all ITSM maturities for its ITSM offering, Freshservice. Freshworks' strategy is aimed at providing an AI-enabled ITSM platform focused on quick configuration and ease of use. Recent product enhancements include integration of its virtual support agent (VSA) into its self-service portal, knowledge gap identification and a new ITAM interface through integration with its Device42 acquisition. Product-development plans include AI-driven change risk scoring, intelligent ticket routing, enhanced asset and service monitoring and executive dashboards. In 2026, Freshworks acquired FireHydrant to extend responsive incident management to DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams. Strengths: * Strategic platform investments: Freshworks' acquisitions of Device42 and FireHydrant strengthen Freshworks' core platform with deeper discovery and dependency mapping (DDM) and incident-response capabilities. * High brand visibility: Freshworks maintains strong awareness among ITSM platform buyers and frequently shows up on Gartner client shortlists. The company's multichannel marketing efforts, including roadshows, events and social media, make it easier for potential buyers to access information, engage with the brand and evaluate its offerings. * Product enhancements: Freshworks employs a broad reach of channels to capture a high number of customer suggestions for enhancements and regularly incorporates these into its monthly updates. 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Carahsoft Technology Corp. is The Trusted Government IT Solutions Provider, supporting Public Sector organizations across Federal, State and Local Government agencies and Education and Healthcare markets. As the Master Government Aggregator for its vendor partners, including Freshworks, Carahsoft Technology Corp. deliver solutions for Geospatial, Cybersecurity, MultiCloud, DevSecOps, Artificial Intelligence, Customer Experience and Engagement, Open Source and more. Working with resellers, systems integrators and consultants, its sales and marketing teams provide industry leading IT products, services and training through hundreds of contract vehicles. Explore the Carahsoft Blog to learn more about the latest trends in Government technology markets and solutions, as well as Carahsoft's ecosystem of partner thought-leaders. Dennis Woodside. CEO, Freshworks Dennis Woodside has been the CEO of Freshworks since 2022 and has worked alongside the founder to build and distribute high value, easy to use software for sales, marketing, IT and customer support teams in 67,000 companies.