Staff Mobile Engineer, iOS

Abbott; Alameda (CA); On-site; USD 114,000 - 228,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

HIP PPO medical

Excellent retirement plan

Tuition reimbursement

FreeU education benefit

Job summary

Abbott in Alameda, CA seeks an experienced Staff Mobile Engineer, iOS to lead design and development of iOS apps and platform components. You will set architectural direction, elevate mobile engineering standards, and own large initiatives from concept through production.

You will drive Swift/SwiftUI excellence, oversee React Native migration, and collaborate with product managers and cross‑functional teams to deliver scalable solutions with strong observability and security in mind.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Systems Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 8+ years of professional iOS engineering experience, including significant experience leading the architecture and technical direction of production consumer applications.
• Expert‑level proficiency in Swift and modern iOS development, including SwiftUI, and current architectural patterns (MVVM, MVI, or equivalent).
• Working knowledge of React Native sufficient to assess existing React Native code, plan a native migration, and bridge between React Native and native modules during a phased transition.
• Strong track record of leading the full development lifecycle: architecture, coding, testing, CI/CD, release management, monitoring, and maintenance.
• Experience partnering with backend teams to design efficient mobile APIs and offline‑first solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to lead discovery and high‑level design for technical initiatives.
• Experience championing automated testing, code quality standards, and secure mobile development practices at an organizational level.
• Strong collaboration and technical leadership skills, with the ability to work effectively across a globally distributed engineering team spanning the US, Spain, and India.

Responsibilities

• Lead and participate in the design and development of complex iOS applications and shared iOS platform components (SDKs, libraries, tooling).
• Design and implement sophisticated features in iOS applications, optimizing performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Define and drive modern iOS architecture standards, including Swift, SwiftUI, Combine/async‑await, MVVM/MVI, and modularization.
• Own large, ambiguous initiatives from concept to production, establishing long‑term iOS technical strategy including modularization, CI/CD, build optimization, and observability.
• Participate in managing code and configurations across environments, release management, and environment controls with Platform Engineering.
• Lead discovery phases of medium to large projects, gathering requirements and defining technical specifications.
• Troubleshoot business and production issues, champion observability, crash analytics and performance monitoring.
• Integrate AI/ML capabilities into iOS apps, on‑device and cloud-powered, ensuring privacy and performance.
• Lead migration of consumer app from React Native to fully native iOS, including bridge strategies and feature parity.
• Evaluate existing React Native components for migration complexity and set native module replacement patterns.

Skills

iOS engineering

Swift & SwiftUI

Architectural leadership

React Native migration

CI/CD

Backend collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

GraphQL

Core ML

Bluetooth LE SDKs

Job description

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Meet Lingo, a new biosensing technology that provides users a window into their body. Lingo tracks key biomarkers such as glucose, ketones, and lactate to help people make better decisions about their health and nutrition. Biowearable technology will digitize, decentralize and democratize healthcare, enabling consumers to take control of their own health.

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to :

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year
• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

THE OPPORTUNITY

This Staff Mobile Engineer, iOS position works onsite in our Alameda, CA location for Lingo.

As a Staff Mobile Engineer, iOS at Lingo, you will lead the design and development of the iOS applications and shared iOS platform components that power our biosensing experience. In this role you will set the architectural direction for the iOS codebase, raise the engineering bar across the mobile team, and take ownership of large, ambiguous initiatives from concept through production.

You bring deep, hands‑on iOS expertise and modern Swift architecture practices, and you apply that expertise both to your own code and to how the broader team builds. You are equally comfortable in the details of a performance‑critical feature and in stepping back to spot broader technical trends and implications for the product and team.

You will work closely with product managers, architects, and cross‑functional stakeholders to translate ambiguous problems into well‑scoped technical designs, lead discovery on medium to large projects, and drive the long‑term technical strategy for iOS at Lingo. A core part of this role is leading Lingo's transition from React Native to fully native iOS, owning the migration strategy and setting the technical standard the rest of the team follows.

What You'll Work On

• Lead and participate in the design and development of complex iOS applications and shared iOS platform components (SDKs, libraries, tooling), ensuring high‑quality code and adherence to best practices.
• Design and implement sophisticated features in Lingo's iOS applications, analyzing and optimizing app performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Define and drive modern iOS architecture standards, including Swift, SwiftUI, Combine/async‑await, MVVM/MVI, and modularization.
• Own large, ambiguous initiatives from concept to production, establishing long‑term iOS technical strategy including modularization, CI/CD, build optimization, and observability.
• Participate in managing code and configurations across multiple environments, the release management process, and environment configuration and controls, working closely with the Platform Engineering team.
• Lead the discovery phase of medium to large projects to arrive at high‑level design, and collaborate with product managers, architects, and other stakeholders to gather requirements and define technical specifications.
• Troubleshoot business and production issues, and champion strong observability practices including crash analytics and performance monitoring.
• Integrate AI/ML capabilities into iOS applications, including on‑device and cloud‑powered solutions, to deliver intelligent, personalized experiences while ensuring privacy, security, and performance best practices.
• Lead Lingo's migration of the consumer mobile app from React Native to fully native iOS, owning migration strategy, sequencing, and architecture decisions, including how to bridge React Native and native code during the transition, and how to preserve feature parity and app stability throughout.
• Evaluate existing React Native components and screens for migration complexity, define native module and screen replacement patterns, and set the technical standard the rest of the iOS team follows during the transition.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Systems Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 8+ years of professional iOS engineering experience, including significant experience leading the architecture and technical direction of production consumer applications.
• Expert‑level proficiency in Swift and modern iOS development, including SwiftUI, and current architectural patterns (MVVM, MVI, or equivalent).
• Working knowledge of React Native sufficient to assess existing React Native code, plan a native migration, and bridge between React Native and native modules during a phased transition.
• Strong track record of leading the full development lifecycle: architecture, coding, testing, CI/CD, release management, monitoring, and maintenance.
• Experience partnering with backend teams to design efficient mobile APIs and offline‑first solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to lead discovery and high‑level design for technical initiatives.
• Experience championing automated testing, code quality standards, and secure mobile development practices at an organizational level.
• Strong collaboration and technical leadership skills, with the ability to work effectively across a globally distributed engineering team spanning the US, Spain, and India.

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct experience leading or contributing to a React Native to native migration in a production consumer application.
• Experience in consumer health, digital health, or regulated industries where software quality and reliability have direct implications for end users.
• Experience integrating on‑device or cloud‑powered AI/ML capabilities into iOS applications, such as Core ML or equivalent.
• Experience with GraphQL.
• Familiarity with Bluetooth Low Energy protocols and mobile SDK integration for wearable or connected health devices.
• Experience building and maintaining shared iOS platform components, SDKs, or libraries consumed by other engineering teams.

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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The base pay for this position is $114,000.00 - $228,000.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.