Senior Software Engineer 2, Mobile

About the role and about You

Zwift is looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer to join our Zwift Companion team. In this role, you will work on Zwift’s mobile app, Zwift Companion (ZC), delivering high-quality features and ensuring a seamless user experience. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to build and enhance and maintain our apps on iOS and Android. Additionally, you will contribute to defining and executing the technical strategy to achieve our team objectives - make it easy for Zwifters to plan and start their experiences in Zwift.

We place a high value on flexibility, transparency, and fun while supporting our team to do their best work.

What you’ll do

• Work on software features and tools that will improve Zwift Companion. You'll be expected to build out a deep understanding of the software and influence your teammates and occasionally other teams and functions.
• Drive technical solutions for software features of moderate-to-high complexity, making logical design trade-offs at the application level. For example:
  • Lead complex feature integrations
  • Manage end-to-end feature delivery, including alignment with external stakeholders
  • Resolve challenging technical problems that require working across team boundaries
• Work on existing native mobile codebases (iOS and Android) and contribute to building out our Native + Kotlin Multiplatform solution.
• Work with Kafka (or other event streaming platforms) and SQL databases, building and delivering end to end microservices.
• Proactively advise your team and manager on technical approaches, helping to establish best practices and improve team capabilities.
• Continually drive software engineering best practices within the team. You'll embrace experimentation and iteration and mentor others along the same lines.
• Where possible, you'll evaluate systemic root causes with the help of other senior and staff engineers, looking to solve problems with a 3-6+ month forward vision.
• Contribute to technical strategy development, occasionally influencing cross-team technical direction.

What we’re looking for

• 7+ years of relevant engineering experience.
• Demonstrated experience designing and developing mobile applications.
• Proficiency in native mobile development (Swift for iOS, Kotlin for Android)
• Experience in backend services development:
  • Have worked with Kafka or other event streaming tooling
  • Have shipped microservices and experience with EDA (event driven architecture)
  • Have worked with SQL databases
  • Have an understanding of Kubernetes and infrastructure as code
• Experience with structured, methodical problem solving and debugging.
• Track record of participating in constructive dialogue with an engineering team.
• Experience applying expertise to solve problems and being able to learn quickly when in a new situation.

Bonus points

• Proficiency in Kotlin Multiplatform, Compose Multiplatform & React Native
• Experienced working with distributed teams.
• Interest in building solutions that support our engaged Zwift Community of cyclists, runners, and fitness enthusiasts.
• Knowledge of gRPC and Protobuf.