Staff Mobile Engineer
At Podium, we bring AI Employees to local businesses that turn every conversation into revenue. Trusted by 60,000+ businesses across Auto, Home Services, and Aesthetics, Podium captures and converts leads 24/7, driving both new business and repeat customers.
In under 24 months, we crossed $100M in AI Agent ARR, scaling 300% year-over-year. During this time, we’ve deployed 10,000 AI employees to empower real business outcomes for our customers. Podium is building what we believe will be the most impactful AI employee ecosystem for local business.
Podium has been recognized as the Best AI Implementation by Inc. Magazine, highlighted by OpenAI for building revenue-driving AI Agents, and awarded the #1 AI Agent for Business Operations by G2.
Our growth is fueled by hiring exceptional people, holding them to high standards, and creating opportunities for them to grow and make an impact. Our operating principles guide daily behavior and ensure we hire people who will thrive at Podium. If you're hungry for growth, aligned to our operating principles, and ready to get to work, you won't find a better place to learn and accelerate your career.
The Role
Podium is looking for a world-class Staff Mobile Engineer to lead the evolution of our mobile ecosystem. Our mobile apps are the primary interface for local businesses to manage their reputation and communicate with customers. As we scale our industry-leading AI Agent platform, we need a mobile leader who can architect how autonomous agents interact, think, and perform within our native iOS and Android environments.
In this role, you won’t just build features; you will be the technical anchor for mobile across Podium. You will design the high-performance, real-time architectures that allow AI Agents to autonomously handle complex workflows, ensuring a seamless experience across all touch points. We move fast, leveraging cutting-edge tools like Claude Code, Cursor and Codex to accelerate our delivery and focus on solving the hardest problems.
If you thrive in high-stakes, fast-paced environments, enjoy solving complex architectural challenges at the intersection of Mobile and Agentic AI, this role is for you!
What you will be doing
- Architect Mobile-First AI: Design and scale the foundational architecture of our native iOS (Swift) and Android (Kotlin) applications to support agentic workflows, multi-turn conversations, and real-time AI interactions.
- Drive the Agent Interface: Lead the implementation of mobile-specific AI capabilities, focusing on low-latency streaming, multi-modal inputs, and agentic state management on the client side.
- Own the Mobile Lifecycle: Take full ownership of the mobile development lifecycle—from initial architectural specs to deployment, CI/CD optimization on AWS, and production reliability.
- Mentor & Multiply: Act as a force multiplier for the engineering org. You’ll provide thoughtful, kind code reviews and mentor engineers across all levels, helping them level up their mobile and AI craft.
- Navigate Ambiguity: Prototype rapidly and iterate on complex challenges—such as offline syncing of agent states and high-volume data pipelines—with little guidance.
What you should have
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a deep focus on native mobile development.
- Native iOS & Android Mastery: Proven expertise in either Swift and/or Kotlin with the expectation you will be working in both. You should be comfortable leading technical decisions and reviewing code across both platforms.
- Staff-level Leadership: A track record of leading multi-quarter projects, fleshing out requirements, and driving technical strategy for a mobile organization.
- Modern Tooling Proficiency: Experience utilizing AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) to drive engineering velocity and code quality.
- Architectural Mastery: Strong experience with mobile design patterns, threading, and memory management, specifically as it relates to handling long-running asynchronous AI tasks.
What we hope you have
- Fullstack Exposure: Familiarity with our backend and frontend stack: Python, Elixir, React, and TypeScript.
- Data Strategy: Strong experience with GraphQL for efficient mobile data fetching and real-time subscriptions.
- Agentic Frameworks: Experience with modern agent frameworks or implementing multi-step reasoning and orchestration patterns on mobile devices.
- Passion for Growth: A dedicated approach to supporting new team members through building a disciplined, collaborative engineering culture.
Why you’ll love working here:
Podium is the best place to work to:
- Join the leaders in AI Agents
- Unlock career-defining growth
- Build with world-class talent
- Make a real impact on local business
Benefits:
- Open and transparent culture
- Life insurance, long and short-term disability coverage
- Paid maternity and paternity leave
- Fertility Benefits
- Generous vacation time, plus three 4-day summer holiday weekends
- Excellent medical, dental, and vision benefits
- 401k Plan with company matching
- Bi-annual swag drops with cool Podium gear and apparel
- A stellar HQ (Utah) gym with local professional coaches and classes offered
- Onsite HQ (Utah) child care center, subsidized for employees
Podium is an equal opportunity employer. Podium provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, genetic information, marital status or veteran status.