Chief Data Apps Engineer: Mobile & Backend Lead

Klover; Redwood City (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Attain seeks a Head of Data Apps Engineering to own the engineering of its consumer data apps portfolio, with a hands-on, player-coach leadership style. You’ll ship across React Native front ends on a shared backend, mentor a small team, and set technical direction aligned with product strategy.

You’ll partner with product, drive data-driven decisions, and represent the data apps group in executive forums. This role reports to the SVP of Engineering in Redwood City, CA.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering with consumer-facing mobile products
• Founder/CTO/VP Engineering experience with ownership of a consumer product's technical outcomes
• Proven track record taking a consumer app from zero to meaningful scale
• Strong backend skills (APIs, data pipelines, cloud infrastructure) with production React Native experience
• Comfortable presenting to and working with executive stakeholders
• Experience managing small engineering teams directly (not manager-of-managers)
• Rewards/loyalty or data product experience is a strong plus

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and hands-on development across the app portfolio: React Native front ends on a shared, multi-app backend platform
• Partner daily with the portfolio’s product lead on roadmap, feasibility, and sequencing: you are the engineering half of that partnership
• Track retention and usage across every app in the portfolio and use it to decide what gets engineering attention next
• Drive the “factory” economics: harden shared components so each new app is a configuration and a skin, not a rebuild
• Manage a small team of mobile and backend engineers: line management and career development
• Represent data apps at executive and planning forums: portfolio status, investment cases, and the consumer perspective on company-level decisions
• Raise the bar on modern engineering leverage: AI-assisted development to punch above the team size

Skills

10+ years software engineering

Founder/CTO/VP Engineering

Consumer app scale

Backend APIs & data pipelines

React Native / cross-platform

Executive stakeholder communication

Job description

Attain seeks a Head of Data Apps Engineering to own the engineering of its consumer data apps portfolio, with a hands-on, player-coach leadership style. You’ll ship across React Native front ends on a shared backend, mentor a small team, and set technical direction aligned with product strategy.

You’ll partner with product, drive data-driven decisions, and represent the data apps group in executive forums. This role reports to the SVP of Engineering in Redwood City, CA.