Senior Mobile Engineer

Zero Homes; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 160,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) with Roth

4 weeks PTO

Paid parental leave

Workstation stipend

Job summary

Zero Homes seeks a Senior Mobile Engineer to shape the next generation of our consumer mobile app. You will craft native iOS and Android features, owning them end-to-end from design to production. Collaborate in small teams with designers to deliver rapid, user-centric updates.

You will bring at least 5 years of professional mobile experience, and a strong stance on AI-assisted development. Expect a high-impact role with a focus on observability, customer impact, and ongoing iteration.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Built native mobile apps used by real users.
• Strong opinions on AI tooling in mobile development.
• Customer-centric mindset and willingness to fix issues quickly.
• Relocation or on-site work within 50 miles of Denver, CO.

Responsibilities

• Build the consumer mobile app for iOS and Android end-to-end.
• Own features from design to production with minimal oversight.
• Collaborate in small teams with designers and peers.
• Focus on ship-and-learn approach with strong observability and metrics.

Skills

iOS

Android

Swift

Kotlin

AI tools

Observability

Tools

PostHog

REST APIs

Cloud Functions

ARKit

ARCore

Job description

About Zero Homes

Our mission is to rebuild American communities through healthy, affordable homes.

At Zero Homes, we operate on a simple premise: when you make contractors successful, homeowners win. The current home services industry is fragmented, complex, and opaque, which is frustrating for homeowners and exhausting for contractors. We are changing this by building a home upgrade marketplace that enables a simple, central, transparent process for homeowners and contractors to complete projects.

Through our platform we handle design, quoting, procurement, and customer service, allowing our contractor network to focus on what they do best and make them money: delivering projects. For homeowners, this delivers a predictable, high-quality, and transparent experience—transforming home upgrades from a source of anxiety into a seamless experience. Our vision is to create a world where homeowners and contractors in all 50 states can leverage our platform to execute thousands of projects every week within the next 36 months.

• Be a \"can kid,\" not a \"can't kid\": We own our outcomes and go to extraordinary lengths to solve problems.


• Go fast, be clear: Speed is our advantage, and we sweat the details to deliver an extraordinary customer experience.


• Customer & Contractor Obsessed: We have a deep, personal understanding of the work to be done. We stay curious about our contractors' craft and the stories of our homeowners.


• Win, as a team: We are building an iconic business that will reinvent the industry, and will do so together.

About The Role & Your Impact

This is an exciting opportunity to join an early stage company of talented engineers and designers, led by seasoned climate tech veterans. At Zero, Senior Engineers are individual contributors that report to a Lead Engineer. You will work in small teams (1 designer and 1-2 programmers) in six-week cycles, to take loosely defined projects and deliver new features. Senior Engineers are given broad latitude to make project-level design decisions and expected to operate effectively with minimal oversight. We are relentlessly focused on sustainable productivity. You should expect long stretches of deep work, minimal standing meetings, effective in person collaboration with stakeholders and peers, as well as flexibility around your personal life.

Our Senior Mobile Engineer will build the future of our consumer mobile app, which enables homeowners to get a design and quote for their HVAC project without an in person sales visit. The mobile app is our most important digital touchpoint with homeowners, and you will own features end-to-end on both iOS and Android. Today the app is built fully native with SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose, and the groundwork has been laid for rapid iteration and innovation.

What You Bring

You are fluent on both iOS and Android. You may be stronger in one than the other, but you can confidently navigate both platforms, understand the frameworks, and ship production features in Swift and Kotlin. You have at least 5 years of professional software engineering experience, with meaningful time spent building native mobile applications that real users rely on.

You have strong opinions about AI in the mobile development loop. Agentic coding tools - Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and whatever comes next - are a core part of how you work. You have a point of view on which problems they're great at, where they fall down, and when to keep a human in the loop on review and verification. You treat your AI toolchain the way a craftsperson treats their workshop: opinionated, evolving, and always sharpened.

You are relentlessly customer-centric. When a real user hits a bug, you want to know immediately, and you are happy to drop your in-flight work to unblock them. You see customer‑reported bugs as the most important signal you get, not a distraction from your roadmap. Production problems are part of the job, not an interruption to it.

You have a strong bias toward shipping and learning. You know the difference between recklessness and accepted risk, and you are comfortable weighing the severity of one user's problem against the benefit to everyone else. When the call is hard, you make it and move - you don't wait for certainty that may never come.

You care deeply about observability. Before a feature ships, you know how you'll measure it - what events you'll instrument, what dashboard you'll watch, and what the signal looks like for \"working\" vs \"broken.\" You have experience with a product analytics platform (we use PostHog) and you view a live, populated dashboard as the reward for what you've built, not a follow-up ticket.

You are enthusiastic about in‑person work and collaborating with your colleagues in front of a whiteboard. You live within 50 miles of Denver, CO or are willing to relocate (relo assistance provided).

Nice to Have

• Full stack experience - comfortable standing up backend services (push notification servers, lightweight APIs, Cloud Functions) to support mobile features without waiting on another team


• Experience collaborating on creating and triaging REST APIs with backend counterparts


• Experience at early‑stage startups and/or fast‑growing environments


• Experience with on‑device ML and AR (ARKit, ARCore)


• Experience with camera frameworks and computer vision


• Math background or practical data science experience


• Experience in climate tech

Benefits & Perks

• Equity: every Zero Homes employee gets a stake in the company


• Medical, dental, and vision: we cover 100% of your premium on our base medical plan and on vision, plus most of your dental premium. Coverage starts the first of the month after you join


• 401(k) with Roth and traditional options


• 4 weeks PTO, paid company holidays, and unlimited sick leave


• Paid parental leave: up to 12 weeks for primary caregivers, 6 for secondary (after 9 months with us)


• $500 workstation stipend

Equal Opportunity Employer

Zero Homes is an equal opportunity employer committed to building an inclusive, accessible, and diverse workplace. We provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees and do not discriminate or tolerate harassment based on race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

We encourage people of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives to apply. If you require a reasonable accommodation or assistance during the application or interview process, please let us know.

Compensation Range: $160K - $195K