Who you are

• Proven experience leading large-scale mobile projects or owning critical mobile systems end-to-end
• Deep expertise in JavaScript or TypeScript, with strong experience building applications using React Native
• Strong understanding of mobile architecture, performance optimization, and scalable UI systems
• Experience designing systems that support experimentation and data-driven product development
• A product mindset — you think about user impact and measurable outcomes, not just implementation
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills across engineering, product, and design teams
• Experience operating autonomously in a distributed, remote-first environment
• Nice to haves
• Experience with native mobile development (iOS or Android)
• Experience building consumer fintech or crypto mobile applications
• Familiarity with modern frontend tooling, testing frameworks, or real-time technologies such as WebSockets
• Background in growth engineering, experimentation platforms, or user lifecycle optimization
• We encourage you to apply for roles where you don't fully meet the listed requirements, especially if you're passionate or knowledgable about crypto!

What the job involves

• The Growth Engineering team builds the experiences that connect people to our ecosystem for the first time — and keep them coming back
• We design and ship the systems behind our marketing funnels, signup and KYC flows, and the key engagement features that help new users fund their accounts and explore our products
• Our work spans Payward products across web and mobile, helping users around the world discover, trust, and engage with our ecosystem
• By combining product thinking with engineering excellence, we turn ideas into measurable improvements across acquisition, activation, and long-term engagement
• Within Growth, the Onboarding teams focus on creating seamless entry points to Payward products — guiding users from account creation through their first revenue-generating action with clarity, confidence, and minimal friction
• As a Staff Mobile Engineer on the Growth Onboarding team, you will lead complex, cross-cutting technical initiatives that shape mobile onboarding experiences for Payward’s products
• You will drive architectural direction, mentor engineers, and ensure the systems we build are scalable, reliable, and capable of supporting rapid experimentation
• This is a hands-on technical leadership role for engineers who enjoy translating product opportunities into robust mobile systems that drive measurable activation
• You will partner closely with Product, Design, Data, and Marketing teams to design onboarding experiences that guide users from account creation to their first revenue-generating action across Payward products
• Lead the technical direction for mobile onboarding initiatives across Payward products
• Design and evolve high-quality mobile applications using React Native, ensuring performance, reliability, and maintainability at scale
• Partner with Product, Design, and Data teams to identify onboarding and activation opportunities and translate them into measurable engineering solutions
• Architect reusable mobile components, patterns, and systems that support experimentation and rapid iteration across onboarding flows
• Mentor engineers and guide architectural decisions across mobile and product engineering teams
• Ensure strong engineering standards across the mobile stack, including performance, security, testing, and maintainability
• Collaborate across teams to align on architecture, tooling, and technical strategy for Payward product onboarding experiences
• You set technical direction through context and clarity, empowering engineers to make sound decisions
• You mentor through collaboration and example, raising the engineering bar across teams
• You communicate openly and proactively, aligning multiple stakeholders around shared goals
• You balance rapid experimentation with long-term technical excellence

Benefits

• Remote-first and work from anywhere
• Competitive salary regardless of location, and the option to be paid in crypto
• Equity grants offered with most roles
• Flexible paid time off
• Wellness Program that includes a fitness coach, free access to wellbeing apps, and a monthly wellness stipend
• Mental health and life coaching benefits for you and your dependents
• Startup-level autonomy with the scale and learning opportunities of a global platform
• Remote workstation set-up bonus
• And more!