Senior Mobile Engineer, AI-Powered Real-Time Transcription

Read AI, Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Read AI, Inc. is seeking a Senior Mobile Engineer to own major mobile features across iOS and Android, delivering real-time AI-powered transcripts and summaries. You will collaborate with product, design, and ML teams to ship high-quality experiences at scale.

In this role you’ll mentor peers, shape architecture, and drive performance improvements while advancing secure, offline-capable mobile applications used by thousands of users every day.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of development experience.
• Strong experience building and shipping production mobile apps on iOS (Swift/SwiftUI) and/or Android (Kotlin/Jetpack Compose).
• Proven ability to own complex features end-to-end, including technical design, execution, rollout, and iteration.
• Solid understanding of mobile architecture patterns, state management, and building maintainable UI at scale.
• Experience with real-time audio capture and processing, using AVFoundation (iOS) and/or Android audio APIs.
• Familiarity with background execution, offline storage, and syncing data reliably across devices and network conditions.
• Experience integrating mobile apps with RESTful APIs, WebSockets, and event-driven backends.
• Strong product instincts - you care deeply about customer workflows and build experiences that are fast, intuitive, and reliable.
• Strong communication skills - the ability to collaborate across product, design, and other engineering teams and drive alignment on tradeoffs.

Responsibilities

• Own major feature areas end-to-end across iOS (Swift, SwiftUI) and Android (Kotlin, Jetpack Compose) - from technical design through implementation, testing, rollout, and iteration.
• Help lead the development of new mobile features and product improvements, driving execution and aligning partners on scope, tradeoffs, and timelines.
• Build and enhance real-time audio capture and processing across platforms, leveraging AVFoundation (iOS) and Android audio frameworks to ensure high-quality recordings and accurate transcription.
• Optimize app performance, reliability, battery usage, and latency to deliver smooth, real-time AI-powered transcription and summarization.
• Design and implement AI-powered mobile interactions, including chat-based experiences that let users explore, query, and take action on meeting reports and insights.
• Partner closely with product, design, and ML teams to prototype and ship novel mobile UX patterns for conversational AI, making complex information feel intuitive, fast, and useful.
• Evolve mobile architecture patterns, state management, and shared engineering standards to support rapid iteration and maintainability at scale.
• Establish and uphold best practices for code quality, testing, release hygiene, observability, and performance profiling across both platforms.
• Implement strong security, privacy, data handling, and offline-first support to ensure user trust and reliable cross-device experiences.
• Mentor and support other engineers through design reviews, pairing, and code review, helping grow technical skills and product instincts across the team.
• Contribute to hiring by defining role expectations, participating in interviews, and helping raise the overall bar for the mobile team.

Skills

Mobile development

iOS Swift/SwiftUI

Android Kotlin/Jetpack

Real-time audio

RESTful APIs

WebSockets

UI architecture

Mentorship

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

AVFoundation

Android audio APIs

Python/FastAPI/Node.js

PostgreSQL

Redis

Celery

AWS/GCP/Azure

Job description

Read AI, Inc. is seeking a Senior Mobile Engineer to own major mobile features across iOS and Android, delivering real-time AI-powered transcripts and summaries. You will collaborate with product, design, and ML teams to ship high-quality experiences at scale.

In this role you’ll mentor peers, shape architecture, and drive performance improvements while advancing secure, offline-capable mobile applications used by thousands of users every day.