Senior Backend Mobile Engineer

1M+ customers
~Neo Financial is seeking an accomplished, versatile Senior Mobile Engineer to join our team in Calgary. This senior role demands deep technical expertise and architectural leadership across our complex, multi-platform ecosystem, which includes native iOS (Swift/SwiftUI), native Android (Kotlin/Jetpack Compose), and React Native (TypeScript) applications.
You will own core features from concept to deployment, driving architectural decisions, mentoring junior and intermediate engineers, and ensuring the delivery of polished, performant, and highly-rated mobile experiences at scale. You will be a champion for engineering excellence, performance optimization, and advanced CI/CD strategies.
Architectural Ownership: Define, implement, and maintain the cross-platform mobile architecture to ensure scalability, reliability, and security across iOS, Android, and React Native.
Technical Leadership: Act as a subject matter expert in complex mobile domains (e.g., state management, deep linking, build systems, performance tuning) and mentor intermediate engineers, fostering a culture of technical rigor and best practices.
Performance Engineering: Lead optimization efforts to achieve exceptional app performance, startup times, memory efficiency, and network latency, especially when interfacing with our GraphQL API.
Design and implement reusable, high-quality features and components using Swift/SwiftUI, Kotlin/Jetpack Compose, and TypeScript/React Native, ensuring consistency and adherence to platform-specific standards.
DevOps & Automation: Drive improvements and ownership of our CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Fastlane, GitHub Actions) to accelerate release cycles, ensure rigorous quality gates, and leverage AI/ML tools (e.g., Cross-Functional Strategy: Collaborate closely with product, design, and backend engineering leads to translate high-level product strategy into robust technical execution plans and resolve critical cross-stack integration challenges.
Quality & Standards: Elevate the standard for code quality by performing rigorous code reviews, defining robust unit, integration, and UI testing strategies, and promoting test-driven development.
6+ years of full-time professional experience in architecting, building, and scaling high-traffic, customer-facing mobile applications.

• Proven track record in a Technical Leadership or Mentorship role, guiding peers and owning large-scale technical projects.
• Expert-level proficiency in one or more core mobile stacks (Native iOS with Swift/SwiftUI, Native Android with Kotlin/Jetpack Compose, or Cross-Platform with React Native/TypeScript).
• Must be an Architectural Thinker—able to design scalable, maintainable, and secure long-term systems.
• Location: Must be eligible to work in Canada and willing to relocate to Calgary

As individuals and as a team, we constantly challenge ourselves and each other to raise the bar and deliver exceptional experiences for our customers. Our commitment to customer success drives everything we do, from building world-class products to providing exceptional support at every step of their journey. All team members have a stake in Neo’s success and earn meaningful equity through stock options. We hold ourselves accountable for delivering on our commitments to our customers, partners, and each other. Customers trust us with their finances, so successful candidates for this position will be required to undergo a security screening, including a criminal records check and a credit check.
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