Founding Engineer, Consumer Apps - Remote & Scale

Placer.ai; United States; Remote; USD 200,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Competitive salary

Excellent benefits

Job summary

Placer.ai is seeking the Founding Engineer, Consumer Apps—the first engineer on our new B2C team. You’ll own the mobile apps on Android and iOS, plus the backend, managing onboarding, consent flows, and the data integration that feeds the Placer platform.

You’ll lead the end-to-end technical product, build with AI-first tooling, and shape the foundation teams will scale as we grow. This fully remote role offers a competitive package and rapid impact.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 4 years on B2C products: consumer-facing mobile apps shipped to the general public.
• A real passion for UX, with shipped consumer experiences the candidate can walk through screen by screen and explain the choices behind.
• Move fast, fail fast environment: shipping imperfect first versions, reading the data, and discarding what doesn’t perform.
• Mastery of AI development tools such as coding agents and AI-assisted design, testing and code review with concrete examples.
• Experience taking at least one consumer app from zero to launch as a founding or early engineer and scaling it after launch.
• Deep expertise on one native platform (Android/Kotlin or iOS/Swift) and working fluency on the other, or equivalent cross-platform experience.
• Experience integrating SDKs into consumer mobile apps.
• Backend experience building APIs and data services on a cloud platform (Python and GCP preferred).
• Direct experience with App Store and Google Play review, including data-safety declarations and policy navigation.
• Clear written and verbal communication, and the ability to raise risks early.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build and ship Placer’s first consumer apps on Android and iOS, plus the backend services, as the team’s first engineer.
• Own the quality of the consumer experience from onboarding to engagement screens using funnel data and feedback.
• Build the permission and consent flow to App Store and Google Play policy in collaboration with Legal and Privacy.
• Instrument the full funnel from install to retention with measurable drop-offs.
• Own measurement and experimentation: analytics and A/B testing setup and interpretation.
• Release small experiments in days, not months, and manage releases and reviews.
• Work AI-first, using AI tools to speed up coding, design and testing.
• Embed Placer’s data collection technology into apps with privacy in mind.
• Build account integrity and fraud controls for devices and locations.
• Make early technical calls on stack and architecture, and maintain production services.
• Help hire and mentor future engineers for the growing team.

Skills

Android

iOS development

AI coding tools

API development

Code reviews

Data privacy

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Python

GCP

AI coding tools

Mobile SDKs

Job description

Placer.ai is seeking the Founding Engineer, Consumer Apps—the first engineer on our new B2C team. You’ll own the mobile apps on Android and iOS, plus the backend, managing onboarding, consent flows, and the data integration that feeds the Placer platform.

You’ll lead the end-to-end technical product, build with AI-first tooling, and shape the foundation teams will scale as we grow. This fully remote role offers a competitive package and rapid impact.