Mobile Principal Software Engineer
Principal-level mobile engineer at Dscout who leads the mobile team building its UX research platform, architecting thin-client Swift/Kotlin apps, contributing Python to an AI-first backend using AI coding agents, and mentoring engineers. Remote (US), core hours 9:30 AM–5:00 PM CT.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Remote - US
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Principal
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Significant experience as a mobile software engineer with Principal/Staff-level scope
- 10+ years of experience evolving apps and standing up new ones
- Experience with iOS and Android, and willingness to work outside the mobile ecosystem
- Hands-on experience with AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or similar) and an opinion on designing an SDLC around them
- Experience in system architecture (backend API design, databases, mobile DevOps) and design trade-offs
- Proven track record of leading, mentoring, and growing engineers
- Expertise with cloud-based SaaS architectures and evolutionary design
- Comfort with agile, DevOps, CI/CD, observability/tracing, and data/metrics-based decision making
Full description
At Dscout, we’re building the most flexible and powerful UX research platform on the market—trusted by the world’s top brands in finance (JP Morgan Chase, Intuit, Charles Schwab, PayPal), healthcare (Aya, Headspace), consumer goods (Keen, Verizon, Target, Northface), and tech (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Meta, Spotify, AirBnB). Our tools help teams deeply understand the humans behind their products, so they can build better ones. We are expanding our smart and driven team and would love for you to join us.
Our Platform:
Our mobile apps are Swift and Kotlin. Our frontend is built with React. Our backend uses Elixir and increasingly more and more Python. GenAI has significantly impacted our system architecture, requiring us to adapt and evolve. We are in the midst of a shift from existing products augmented with AI to a full AI-first platform.
You Are:
A Mobile Principal Software Engineer who will lead our mobile team and evolve it to meet the shifting demand of a full AI-first platform — on a timeline measured in weeks, not quarters. You're deeply hands-on with AI coding agents, and you've used them to ship serious work, not just autocomplete. You're as comfortable architecting a thin mobile client backed by a powerful API as you are dropping into our Python backend (with AI assist) to add what mobile needs. You'll shape our participant experience across mobile with heavy influence on the web too.
You're deeply product focused, energized by solving business problems, not just writing code. You ask "why" before "how," and you partner with Product and Design as a peer — shaping problems, not just taking specs. You know when to ship a scrappy prototype to test an assumption versus when to invest in a foundation built to last, and you can explain that call to a PM or designer. You can hold multiple projects in your head at once, spotting where they'll collide, depend on each other, or share a chance for reuse.
You bring Principal/Staff-level scope as a product engineer — 10+ years of experience evolving apps and standing up new ones across product and technical dimensions. You have a proven track record of leading technical improvements and mentoring other developers, as collaboration and empathy are cornerstones of our culture. You thrive setting your own direction with minimal input while staying aligned to company goals.
Most of all, you're energized by the prospect of doing in months what used to take years. If this sounds exciting, we'd love to hear from you.
The Job
Working hours
Availability 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM CT
- Dscout is a US-based company, and while working these core hours is expected in this role, we know that from time-to-time life happens and we can be flexible to meet your needs.