Senior Mobile Engineer

Summary

Are you a mobile engineer who thrives on building exceptional user experiences, shipping high-quality apps from scratch, and raising the technical bar for teams around you?

As a Senior Mobile Engineer at Topstep, you'll play a foundational role in building our mobile trading platform using React Native. You'll be instrumental in launching our MVP, establishing mobile architecture patterns, and then embedding within feature teams to drive ongoing mobile development. This is an opportunity to shape the mobile experience for traders and set the technical foundation that will scale across both our trader experience and trading experience platforms.

This role is ideal for someone who brings both deep React Native expertise and a product mindset. Someone who's excited to own the mobile app end-to-end, establish reusable patterns and components that scale across teams, and mentor engineers who are building the next generation of our mobile platform. Join us and help define what mobile excellence looks like at Topstep.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the mobile MVP effort to establish our React Native application from the ground up, integrating with GraphQL APIs across our trader experience and trading experience platforms.
• Establish engineering patterns for React Native development, including reusable components, custom hooks, TypeScript patterns, and testing strategies that other engineers can adopt.
• Own end-to-end mobile features from design through App Store and Play Store releases, ensuring seamless integration with backend services and optimal performance.
• Partner with product and design to translate trader needs into mobile experiences that balance user experience with technical constraints and platform capabilities.
• Drive mobile quality and performance by embedding testing, monitoring, crash reporting, and performance optimization into every feature you ship.
• Embed within feature teams after MVP launch to drive ongoing mobile development, bringing mobile expertise to cross-functional squads.
• Mentor engineers on React Native best practices, mobile-specific architectural thinking, and production ownership.
• Champion mobile-first thinking across the organization, helping backend and frontend teams understand mobile constraints and opportunities.

Required Qualifications and Key Competencies

• 5+ years of professional experience building production mobile applications, with demonstrated impact in establishing patterns and practices that scaled across multiple teams.
• Deep React Native expertise, including navigation (React Navigation), state management (Redux, Zustand, Context), native module integration, and performance optimization.
• Strong TypeScript and modern JavaScript foundation with understanding of React patterns, hooks, component composition, and functional programming concepts.
• Cross-platform mobile development experience shipping apps to both iOS App Store and Google Play Store, including an understanding of platform-specific differences and capabilities.
• GraphQL client integration experience using Apollo Client or similar libraries, including cache management, optimistic updates, and error handling.
• Strong database fundamentals, including experience with PostgreSQL or SQL Server-schema design, migrations, indexing, and query optimization. 
• Mobile-specific performance optimization, including understanding of bundle size, startup time, memory management, list virtualization, and image optimization.
• Production mobile app experience, including crash reporting (Sentry, Crashlytics), analytics integration, remote config, and debugging production issues.
• Testing mindset with experience writing unit tests (Jest), integration tests, and E2E tests (Detox, Appium) for React Native applications.
• Understanding of mobile CI/CD, including automated builds, code signing, TestFlight/Play Store distribution, and release management.
• Track record of technical leadership through architectural documentation, code reviews, component libraries, and establishing mobile engineering standards.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain mobile-specific constraints and trade-offs to varied audiences and build consensus across teams.
• Comfortable making pragmatic decisions, balancing long-term mobile architecture with immediate feature delivery and MVP launch goals.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building financial, trading, or fintech mobile applications where real-time data, reliability, and security are critical.
• Background with native iOS (Swift/Objective-C) or Android (Kotlin/Java) development, and understanding when to drop down to native code.
• Experience with real-time data integration using WebSockets or Server-Sent Events.
• Familiarity with mobile authentication patterns (biometrics, OAuth, secure token storage).
• Experience with complex mobile UI patterns (charts, animations, gesture handling).
• Background building and maintaining shared component libraries or design systems for mobile.
• Experience with Expo or similar React Native development platforms.
• Understanding of mobile security best practices and secure coding for sensitive financial data.

Company Culture & Perks 

• Topstep is an engaging working environment that ranges from fully remote to hybrid. We foster a culture of collaboration by keeping cameras on during meetings and maintaining a robust Slack environment for communication.
• Seven Company-paid Holidays and generous Family Leave. Paid time off is front-loaded.
• Competitive 401(k) matching, health, dental, and vision insurance are offered for full-time employees.
• Vacations are encouraged with a bonus for taking 5 consecutive days. Topstep offers a food and groceries budget and contributes towards health and wellness.

New Hire Base Salary Range 

• $157,000 - $193,000 annually.
• Bonus: This position is eligible for a performance-based bonus as provided by the plan terms and governing documents.
• The compensation offered will take into account the internal compensation structure and may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience, among other factors.

Equal Opportunity Employer 

Topstep is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where all employees and applicants are valued. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status, in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

Interested in the role? Apply today with your resume!