Head of Data Apps Engineering

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’s consumer mobile apps are the front door of our data ecosystem: they deliver real value to consumers, and the permissioned data they generate powers everything our enterprise platform does
• Each app has a different audience with its own acquisition and monetization approach, all running on a shared backend platform
• As Head of Data Apps Engineering, you’ll own the engineering side of that portfolio and be the consumer voice in with our ad-tech leadership team
• This is a player-coach role by design: you’ll lead a deliberately small team of mobile and backend engineers, write and review code yourself, and set the technical direction that lets us ship new apps at a marginal cost that shrinks with each launch
• You’ll work in lockstep with our Head of Product for the portfolio
• And you’ll represent the data apps business at the executive level, where your consumer expertise fills a gap the rest of the room knows it has
• This role reports into the SVP of Engineering
• 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 the shared components (onboarding, account linking, loyalty, receipt OCR) so each new app is a configuration and a skin, not a rebuild
• Manage a small team of mobile and backend engineers: line management, code review, and career development, not layers of management
• 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: agentic/AI-assisted development is how this team punches above its size

You think like a product engineer: you’d rather pressure-test an idea with your product counterpart before a line of code is written than build the wrong thing beautifullyYou instinctively seek to collaborate with your Product counterpart to ship great productsYou’ve built and scaled a consumer app with real ownership (as a founder, CTO, founding engineer, or the technical lead who was accountable for the outcome), and you can speak to what worked and what didn’t from firsthand experienceYou’re credible in an executive room: you can represent a business line to a leadership team, translate consumer strategy for an ad-tech-native audience, and hold your ground on what it takes to build for consumersYou read retention and engagement data across a portfolio of products fluently, and you use it to prioritize with your Product counterpart; you don’t wait to be handed a metrics brief before you know which app or feature needs attentionYou get energy from leverage: shared platforms, reusable components, and AI-assisted development that let a five-person team ship like a fifteen-person oneYou’ve experienced consumer scale (real production load, real users, real growth curves) and know which scaling problems to solve now versus earn laterYou’re a backend-heavy full-stack engineer who is genuinely fluent across the stack, including React Native, and you still love being in the weedsYou’ve held senior scope before and are excited to lead your team through hands-on building: you want a small, focused team and a big mandate, not a big orgAt Attain, we are passionate about finding people to continuously help us grow our organization.

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with several years building consumer-facing mobile products
• Founder, CTO, VP Engineering, or founding-engineer experience at a consumer startup, or equivalent demonstrated ownership of a consumer product’s technical outcomes
• Track record taking a consumer app from zero to meaningful scale (users, load, or revenue)
• Deep backend expertise (APIs, data pipelines, cloud infrastructure) plus production React Native or comparable cross-platform mobile experience
• Comfortable presenting to and working with executive stakeholders
• Experience managing small engineering teams directly (line management; this is not a manager-of-managers role)
• Rewards/loyalty or data product experience is a strong plus