Staff Mobile Software Engineer

NCSA College Recruiting is a leading platform for college recruiting, providing tools, coaching, and access to college coaches for student-athletes. It is part of IMG Academy, a top sports education brand.

Location: United States

Salary: $160k–$190k

Responsibilities

• Experience architecting, developing and maintaining React Native applications.
• Sufficient experience to teach others about mobile development, 12-factor applications and modern development practices.
• Expertise using languages like TypeScript, JavaScript, go and Ruby.
• Able to make system design trade-offs based on real-world experience.
• Experience negotiating scope to deliver business value on compressed timelines.
• Comfortable with complexity and learning in wicked environments.
• Deeply understand mobile application telemetry and strategies for observing and influencing user behavior.
• Familiar with Incident Command System for managing outages and security incidents.
• Know how to use configuration management and infrastructure as code tools like Terraform.
• Experience with container orchestration using tools like Docker Swarm or Kubernetes.
• Working knowledge of and experience with relational databases (e.g. Postgres) and non-relational data stores (e.g. Redis, ElasticSearch, OpenSearch).

Requirements

• 7+ years of industry experience
• 5+ years’ experience in React Native mobile engineering.
• 5+ years’ experience maintaining and extending mobile back ends or other API applications.
• Experience deploying binaries to the Google Play and iOS app stores. Experience using the Expo build tool a plus.
• Experience with AI tools such as Claude Code, Copilot or Cursor are a plus.
• Writes loosely coupled code with excellent test coverage; using automation for tests, builds and deployment; implementing monitoring and logging proactively.
• Familiarity with design and interface guidelines of iOS and Android.
• Experience using streaming (e.g. Kafka) a plus.
• Comfortable in architecting solution with a full stack approach, from mobile client to back end.
• Architect and implement build and test patterns to prevent release of bad binaries to the app store.
• Collaborate with the Product and Platform team to craft technical solutions that meet internal and external customer needs.
• Support critical applications in a fast-paced environment.
• Research and intervene to quickly and efficiently pinpoint and resolve problematic system issues.
• Review and improve teammate output, providing detailed and thoughtful feedback.
• Define and extend code management processes to improve development team efficiency.
• Ability to communicate with product and stakeholders on requirements; able to mentor more inexperienced engineers effectively.
• Provide 24x7 on-call support on a rotating basis.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vision
• Flexible Spending Account and Health Savings Account options
• 401k with an Employer Match
• Short Term and Long Term Disability
• Group and Supplemental Life & AD&D
• Gym Discount Program
• Pet Insurance
• Wellbeing Program
• and more!