[Remote] Lead Engineer - Mobile Platform - Cross-Platform - Remote
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Optum Tech is a global leader in health care innovation, developing solutions to enhance health systems. The Lead Engineer for the Mobile Platform will design and evolve a scalable mobile platform, oversee cross-platform development, and provide technical leadership to engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Architecture & Platform Leadership: Define and drive the technical roadmap across cross-platform (React Native) and native (iOS, Android) solutions
- Hands-on Development: Deliver clean, scalable, and maintainable mobile code across platform layers
- Cross-Platform Strategy: Lead adoption and evolution of React Native while supporting and modernizing native mobile capabilities
- Framework & Tooling: Establish shared libraries, SDKs, and platform components to unify mobile development
- Performance & Security: Ensure high-performance, secure, and reliable mobile applications
- Collaboration: Partner with product, backend, and design teams to deliver seamless user experiences
- Mentorship & Leadership: Provide technical leadership and develop engineers across the mobile platform
- Platform Modernization: Guide teams through architectural improvements and transitions (e.g., native → cross-platform)
- Emerging Tech
- Design, develop, and integrate AI-enabled capabilities into mobile platform solutions to address complex business challenges, with a focus on responsible and secure implementation
- Leverage enterprise-approved AI tools to streamline workflows, automate tasks, and drive engineering productivity and continuous improvement
- Evaluate and incorporate modern technologies, including AI-enabled capabilities, to enhance platform performance, scalability, and innovation
Skills
- Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or relevant experience
- Solid experience in cross-platform frameworks (React Native preferred) OR demonstrated ability to learn/adopt
- Mobile development: iOS (Swift) and/or Android (Kotlin/Java)
- Proven experience building scalable mobile platforms
- Proven experience leading engineering teams / technical direction
- Experience with APIs (REST/GraphQL)
- Experience with cloud platforms
- Experience with CI/CD and modern engineering practices
- Experience with React Native in production environments
- Experience transitioning from native → cross-platform architectures
- Experience integrating AI/ML in mobile
- Experience building platform-level / shared mobile capabilities
- Solid understanding of global scale apps, performance, and reliability
- All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy
Benefits
- A comprehensive benefits package
- Incentive and recognition programs
- Equity stock purchase
- 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements)
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