Lead Mobile Software Engineer

Lead Mobile Software Engineer (P4)

Who We Are

Solera is a global leader in data and software services, transforming every touchpoint of the vehicle lifecycle into a connected digital experience. Solera processes over 300 million digital transactions annually for approximately 235,000 partners and customers in more than 90 countries. Our teams work on mission‑critical platforms that demand reliability, scalability, and thoughtful evolution of complex systems.

JOB SUMMARY

• We’re looking for a hands-on Lead Mobile Software Engineer (P4) who will help design, build, modernize, and deliver enterprise-grade mobile applications across iOS and Android. This role is focused on building reliable, scalable, secure, and high-performing mobile experiences while applying AI-driven development practices to improve engineering velocity, product quality, and team effectiveness.
• This role is ideal for a senior technologist who:
• Leads meaningful mobile features and workstreams across discovery, design, implementation, launch, and continuous improvement
• Designs and builds cross-platform mobile solutions spanning iOS, Android, and shared mobile components
• Applies AI-driven development practices, AI-assisted engineering tools, and modern mobile workflows to improve delivery speed and product quality
• Makes sound technical decisions that balance native platform quality, cross-platform reuse, performance, security, maintainability, and delivery needs
• Partners effectively with product, design, architecture, backend, security, QA, DevOps/SRE, and business stakeholders to deliver mobile outcomes
• Mentors engineers through code review, implementation guidance, mobile best practices, and hands-on technical support
• You will operate with strong ownership, lead mobile workstreams with limited direction, help shape implementation approaches, support cross-team alignment, and be known as someone who ships high-quality mobile software, unblocks teammates, and drives execution.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Build, Ship, and Own Mobile Applications

• Write production-quality mobile code regularly across iOS, Android, shared components, and mobile integration layers
• Own and deliver mobile features, platform improvements, and system enhancements end-to-end
• Contribute to modernization of legacy mobile applications by helping move toward modular, maintainable, testable, and scalable mobile architectures
• Help design and evolve mobile foundations, including app architecture, shared components, design systems, offline capabilities, authentication flows, telemetry, and release infrastructure
• Translate product and user requirements into reliable, intuitive, and performant mobile experiences
• Identify mobile technical risks early, including app performance, crash rates, app store constraints, OS fragmentation, security, privacy, offline behavior, and API reliability
• Lead assigned project workstreams, including technical discovery, solution design, delivery planning, execution tracking, launch readiness, release coordination, and post-launch follow-through
• AI-Driven Mobile Development & Intelligent Experiences
• Apply AI-driven development practices for mobile engineering, including AI-assisted design, coding, refactoring, test generation, debugging, documentation, and code review workflows
• Help design and implement intelligent mobile experiences that responsibly leverage LLMs, AI services, on-device intelligence, contextual assistance, automation, and personalization where appropriate
• Integrate mobile applications with AI-enabled backend services, APIs, orchestration layers, and data sources
• Evaluate tradeoffs for on-device, edge, or cloud-based intelligence based on latency, privacy, cost, reliability, and user experience
• Follow and help improve guardrails for AI-assisted mobile engineering, including generated-code review standards, testing expectations, security review, privacy controls, and quality gates
• Support validation strategies for AI-powered mobile features, including grounding, structured outputs, user confirmation, fallback states, and telemetry-driven evaluation
• Help implement monitoring and feedback loops for AI-enabled mobile behavior in production
• Ensure AI-enabled mobile capabilities meet security, privacy, compliance, accessibility, and user trust requirements

Mobile Technical Leadership & Architecture

• Contribute to mobile architecture standards through hands-on implementation
• Guide implementation decisions across native iOS, native Android, cross-platform frameworks, shared components, backend integration, data synchronization, security, and observability
• Make thoughtful tradeoffs between native platform quality, cross-platform reuse, delivery speed, performance, correctness, and maintainability
• Act as a technical escalation point for assigned mobile areas, including performance, memory, battery usage, offline behavior, crash stability, OS compatibility, release quality, and integration reliability
• Influence technical direction within the team and across related mobile workstreams
• Provide technical leadership for assigned projects by coordinating architecture input, engineering execution, dependency management, risk mitigation, mobile release planning, and cross-team alignment
• Communicate clearly with product owners, UX/design, engineering leaders, backend teams, security, DevOps/SRE, QA, support, and business stakeholders to keep delivery aligned with business outcomes

AI-Assisted Mobile Engineering & Developer Productivity

• Use AI-powered development tools such as GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, and mobile-specific automation to accelerate high-quality delivery
• Follow and promote best practices for safe, high-quality AI-assisted mobile coding
• Use AI tools for mobile solution design, architecture analysis, refactoring, test generation, debugging, system comprehension, documentation, and release readiness
• Improve developer productivity through reusable mobile components, shared architecture patterns, CI/CD automation, test automation, build optimization, and platform tooling
• Help the team adopt modern mobile workflows that improve velocity while maintaining engineering rigor, security, accessibility, and release quality

Mentorship & Team Elevation

• Mentor engineers through pairing, code reviews, architecture discussions, and implementation support
• Help mid-level and senior engineers strengthen mobile engineering practices and ownership
• Coach teammates on modern mobile architecture, cross-platform development, AI-aware engineering practices, quality engineering, observability, and secure development
• Promote a culture of continuous learning, ownership, customer empathy, and technical excellence
• Lead by example with clear communication, accountability, collaboration, and hands-on technical contribution

Mobile Execution, Quality & Operations

• Build and maintain enterprise mobile applications using modern native and/or cross-platform frameworks
• Implement integrations with RESTful APIs, GraphQL services, event-driven workflows, identity providers, analytics platforms, and mobile backend services
• Optimize mobile applications for performance, memory usage, battery life, network efficiency, offline behavior, accessibility, localization, and reliability
• Partner with DevOps/SRE and QA to support strong mobile CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, build signing, release automation, observability, crash reporting, and safe deployments
• Support release quality across TestFlight, Google Play testing tracks, App Store, and Google Play production releases
• Participate fully in the SDLC: design, coding, testing, deployment, production support, incident response, and continuous improvement

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Experience

• 7+ years of professional software development experience, including significant hands-on mobile engineering experience
• Proven experience delivering complex mobile applications, mobile features, or mobile platform capabilities
• Experience contributing to modernization of legacy mobile applications, mobile architectures, or mobile delivery practices
• Hands-on experience building and shipping iOS and Android applications, with cross-platform mobile development experience
• Experience applying AI-assisted development tools and AI-driven engineering practices to improve quality, speed, testing, documentation, and maintainability
• History of hands-on technical leadership within a team, project, or mobile workstream
• Experience mentoring engineers and supporting code quality through reviews and technical guidance
• Proven ability to lead assigned project workstreams, coordinate with cross-functional stakeholders, manage technical risks, and drive execution through delivery

Technical Skills

• Strong mobile engineering experience across iOS and Android
• Strong proficiency with Swift and iOS platform development, including Apple platform conventions, app lifecycle, concurrency, networking, persistence, testing, and App Store release practices
• Strong proficiency with Kotlin and Android platform development, including Android architecture, Jetpack, coroutines, networking, persistence, testing, and Google Play release practices
• Hands-on experience with cross-platform mobile technologies such as React Native, Flutter, Kotlin Multiplatform, .NET MAUI, or equivalent frameworks
• Solid understanding of mobile architecture patterns such as MVVM, MVI, Clean Architecture, modular architecture, dependency injection, and design-system integration
• Experience integrating mobile apps with RESTful APIs, GraphQL, identity providers, telemetry platforms, crash reporting, analytics, feature flags, and remote configuration
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools and AI-enabled engineering workflows
• Working knowledge of LLM-powered product experiences, AI service integration, prompt-driven workflows, structured outputs, validation, and responsible AI guardrails
• Strong understanding of mobile security, secure storage, authentication, authorization, privacy, encryption, certificate pinning, OWASP Mobile risks, and compliance-aware engineering
• Strong experience with mobile testing strategies, including unit testing, UI automation, integration testing, contract testing, snapshot testing, and regression automation
• Experience with mobile CI/CD, build automation, signing, provisioning, release tracks, app store submission, observability, and production monitoring
• Comfort working with cloud environments and backend integration patterns across AWS and/or Azure
• Proficient with Git and modern development workflows
• Strong understanding of production-quality code, performance tuning, reliability engineering, accessibility, and user-centered mobile design

NICE TO HAVE

• Experience with .NET MAUI, or other cross-platform mobile frameworks at scale
• Experience building shared mobile platform libraries, SDKs, design systems, or reusable component frameworks
• Experience with offline-first mobile applications, synchronization, conflict resolution, and intermittent connectivity scenarios
• Experience with mobile observability, crash analytics, performance monitoring, synthetic monitoring, and SLO-driven reliability practices
• Experience integrating AI-powered features into mobile applications, including on-device AI, cloud AI services, personalization, automation, or contextual assistants
• Experience with regulated, security-sensitive, or compliance-driven mobile applications
• Background with event streaming, messaging, or real-time data workflows
• Strong background in Agile/Scrum environments

EDUCATION

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent practical experience

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE

• You are consistently delivering high-quality mobile features and improvements across iOS and Android
• Mobile applications are becoming more reliable, performant, secure, observable, accessible, and easier to release
• Legacy mobile systems are being improved incrementally without disrupting customers or business operations
• AI-assisted engineering practices improve team velocity, code quality, test coverage, and documentation quality
• AI-enabled mobile capabilities are implemented responsibly, monitored effectively, and trusted in production
• The team moves faster because of the mobile patterns, tools, automation, and examples you help establish
• Engineers seek you out for guidance on mobile implementation, cross-platform decisions, AI-assisted development, release quality, and production issues
• Assigned projects are well-scoped, well-communicated, and delivered through effective collaboration with product, design, engineering, operations, security, QA, and business stakeholders
• Code quality, mobile reliability, release confidence, and development velocity improve measurably
• You are recognized as a lead engineer who ships, collaborates effectively, and raises the quality of the team around you