Principle Mobile Engineer

Rconnect Consulting Inc; California (MO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Rconnect Consulting Inc is seeking a Mobile Architecture and Practices leader. The candidate will drive cross-team technical decisions and define AI-driven SDLC standards, working with large-scale distributed systems.

Applicants should have over 12 years of software engineering experience, particularly at the Staff/Principal level, and proven leadership skills in documentation and scaling architectural decisions. Strong communication and collaboration across diverse teams are essential.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, with experience at Staff/Principal level.
• Strong experience designing and evolving large-scale distributed systems.
• Proven leadership in driving architecture and standards across teams.

Responsibilities

• Drive cross-team technical decisions and architecture alignment.
• Define and scale AI-driven SDLC standards including tools and automation patterns.
• Elevate engineering quality through code and architecture reviews.

Skills

Software engineering experience at Staff/Principal level

Cross-team technical decisions

Large-scale distributed systems design

AI-assisted development

Effective communication

Job description

Mobile Architecture and Practices

• Mobile architecture patterns and performance optimization
• Offline-first applications and release engineering
• Mobile CI/CD and testing practices

Required Leadership Skills

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, with significant tenure at Staff/Principal level.
• Drive cross-team technical decisions, platform direction, and multi-team initiatives (architecture alignment, trade-off resolution, execution).
• Define and scale AI-driven SDLC standards, including tools, guardrails, and automation patterns.
• Hands‑on experience with AI‑assisted development (e.g., Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor) to deliver production systems; able to articulate workflow impact and guardrails.
• Strong experience designing and evolving large‑scale distributed systems (APIs, data pipelines, event‑driven systems, high‑scale platforms).
• Proven cross‑org leadership—driving architecture, standards, and platform initiatives across multiple teams.
• Elevate engineering quality through code reviews, architecture reviews, and mentoring senior engineers.
• Strong engineering fundamentals in code quality, testing, CI/CD, and observability while maintaining delivery velocity.
• Effective communicator with the ability to influence stakeholders and drive alignment without formal authority.
• Experience collaborating across product, data, security, and infrastructure teams.
• Track record of documenting and scaling architectural decisions and organizational learnings.
• Experience working with distributed teams (US, China, LATAM).