Director, App & Platform Engineering

Scion Ventures; Fremont (CA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity (0.5%–2.0%)

Health insurance 100% paid

On-site work

Job summary

Scion Ventures is hiring on behalf of one of our portfolio companies to own engineering for customer‑facing platforms: iOS/Android, web consoles, and the backend services. This is a player‑coach role: set technical direction, lead a small team, and still write code 30–50% of the time.

You will be accountable for what ships. You will own the architecture and delivery of a camera‑first mobile app and a multi‑tenant SaaS platform, focusing on offline‑first sync, security, observability, and

Qualifications

• 12+ years building and operating production software.
• Shipped iOS and Android apps to real users and owned them after launch (RN/Flutter/native).
• Built and operated a web app or SaaS product: React/TypeScript front end, TS/Node or Python services, PostgreSQL, queues/background jobs, cloud infra (GCP or AWS).
• Depth in offline-first sync, camera/media pipelines on mobile, or large-file uploads with unreliable networks.
• Track record as technical lead: set direction and shipped results.
• Security-minded: multi-tenancy, RBAC, secrets management, audit trails.
• Clear written communication in a largely asynchronous US-India time-zone team.
• Based in or willing to relocate to Fremont; on-site role.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture, delivery, and quality for the camera-first mobile app (iOS/Android).
• Lead a small team, set technical direction, and contribute 30–50% of coding.
• Oversee web consoles (React/TypeScript) and the SaaS platform (multi-tenant data model, workflow engine, ingestion, real-time updates, reporting).
• Ensure integrations via REST, webhooks, OAuth with idempotency, retries, and audit trails.
• Enforce tenant isolation, RBAC, audit logging; guide CI/CD, testing, observability, on-call practices, and incident reviews.
• Lead, hire, and mentor engineers; run design reviews; ship weekly with founders/product.

Skills

Leadership

iOS/Android apps

React Native/Flutter/Swift/Kotlin

Web app/SaaS

TypeScript/Node/Python

Cloud (GCP/AWS)

RBAC/Security

Asynchronous communication

On-site relocation to Fremont

Tools

React

TypeScript

Node.js

Python

PostgreSQL

Job description

Scion Ventures is hiring on behalf of one of our portfolio companies to own engineering for customer‑facing platforms: iOS/Android, web consoles, and the backend services. This is a player‑coach role: set technical direction, lead a small team, and still write code 30–50% of the time.

You will be accountable for what ships. You will own the architecture and delivery of a camera‑first mobile app and a multi‑tenant SaaS platform, focusing on offline‑first sync, security, observability, and