Mobile engineers who ship apps your users keep on their home screen.
We place senior iOS, Android, and cross-platform engineers. Calibrated per platform — native-first if your app justifies it, cross-platform if your product and team actually benefit from the trade.
The senior mobile engineer market — the honest version.
Mobile engineering is its own discipline, and the biggest failure mode in hiring is pretending it's the same as web. Native-first candidates (Swift / SwiftUI, Kotlin / Jetpack Compose) have deep architectural instincts that don't transfer cleanly from web. Cross-platform candidates (React Native, Flutter) have different trade-off intuitions. We screen against the specific platform commitment your product has actually made — not against a generic "mobile engineer" profile.
What we actually screen for.
Every senior mobile engineer candidate goes through a structured technical screen conducted by an ex-engineer recruiter before you see their profile.
- Platform depth — iOS (Swift / SwiftUI / UIKit) or Android (Kotlin / Compose / Views), calibrated to your stack
- Performance instincts — launch time, memory, battery, frame drops — as first-class concerns
- Release discipline — App Store / Play Store review, feature flags, phased rollouts, crash recovery
- Architecture literacy — MVVM / TCA / Redux-style, module boundaries, coordinator patterns
- Cross-platform fluency — React Native or Flutter if your team has committed to that model
- Production quality — crash rate, P95 frame time, ANR rate at their last company
How we run a senior mobile engineer search.
Days 0–2
Intake + platform alignment
Clarify: native-first or cross-platform, iOS / Android / both, team size, release cadence.
Days 2–12
Sourcing + platform-specific screen
Screen calibrated to the platform (Swift / Kotlin / RN / Flutter) with a real production scenario.
Days 10–14
First shortlist
4–6 candidates with written assessments including a sample of shipped app work.
Days 14–24
Interviews + offer
Loop includes a platform-specific architecture round and a release-discipline conversation.
Real salary bands across our three markets.
- Pakistan (remote int'l)
USD $35K–$90K
- Canada
CAD $115K–$180K + equity
- United States
USD $150K–$240K + equity
Titles we place under this role type.
- Senior iOS Engineer
- Senior Android Engineer
- Senior Mobile Engineer
- Staff Mobile Engineer
- Senior React Native Engineer
- Senior Flutter Engineer
Senior Mobile Engineer hiring — questions we hear.
Depends on your product. If your app is performance-sensitive, heavily animated, or reliant on platform-specific APIs, native wins. If your team is small and you're shipping parity features fast, cross-platform often wins. We'll tell you honestly at intake which side we think your search should target.
Ready to run this search?
Submit a brief and a senior recruiter will reply within 24 business hours with a proposed timeline, calibrated fee structure, and sample profiles.
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