Lead Software Engineer

Lead Mobile Software Engineer (P4)

Who We Are

Solera is a global leader in data and software services, transforming every touchpoint of the vehicle lifecycle into a connected digital experience. Solera processes over 300 million digital transactions annually for approximately 235,000 partners and customers in more than 90 countries. Our teams work on mission‑critical platforms that demand reliability, scalability, and thoughtful evolution of complex systems.

We’re looking for a hands-on Lead Mobile Software Engineer (P4) who will help design, build, modernize, and deliver enterprise-grade mobile applications across iOS and Android. This role is focused on building reliable, scalable, secure, and high-performing mobile experiences while applying AI-driven development practices to improve engineering velocity, product quality, and team effectiveness.

This role is ideal for a senior technologist who:

Leads meaningful mobile features and workstreams across discovery, design, implementation, launch, and continuous improvement

Designs and builds cross-platform mobile solutions spanning iOS, Android, and shared mobile components

Applies AI-driven development practices, AI-assisted engineering tools, and modern mobile workflows to improve delivery speed and product quality

Makes sound technical decisions that balance native platform quality, cross-platform reuse, performance, security, maintainability, and delivery needs

Partners effectively with product, design, architecture, backend, security, QA, DevOps/SRE, and business stakeholders to deliver mobile outcomes

Mentors engineers through code review, implementation guidance, mobile best practices, and hands-on technical support

You will operate with strong ownership, lead mobile workstreams with limited direction, help shape implementation approaches, support cross-team alignment, and be known as someone who ships high-quality mobile software, unblocks teammates, and drives execution.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Build, Ship, and Own Mobile Applications

Write production-quality mobile code regularly across iOS, Android, shared components, and mobile integration layers

Own and deliver mobile features, platform improvements, and system enhancements end-to-end

Contribute to modernization of legacy mobile applications by helping move toward modular, maintainable, testable, and scalable mobile architectures

Help design and evolve mobile foundations, including app architecture, shared components, design systems, offline capabilities, authentication flows, telemetry, and release infrastructure

Translate product and user requirements into reliable, intuitive, and performant mobile experiences

Identify mobile technical risks early, including app performance, crash rates, app store constraints, OS fragmentation, security, privacy, offline behavior, and API reliability

Lead assigned project workstreams, including technical discovery, solution design, delivery planning, execution tracking, launch readiness, release coordination, and post-launch follow-through

AI-Driven Mobile Development & Intelligent Experiences

Apply AI-driven development practices for mobile engineering, including AI-assisted design, coding, refactoring, test generation, debugging, documentation, and code review workflows

Help design and implement intelligent mobile experiences that responsibly leverage LLMs, AI services, on-device intelligence, contextual assistance, automation, and personalization where appropriate

Integrate mobile applications with AI-enabled backend services, APIs, orchestration layers, and data sources

Evaluate tradeoffs for on-device, edge, or cloud-based intelligence based on latency, privacy, cost, reliability, and user experience

Follow and help improve guardrails for AI-assisted mobile engineering, including generated-code review standards, testing expectations, security review, privacy controls, and quality gates

Support validation strategies for AI-powered mobile features, including grounding, structured outputs, user confirmation, fallback states, and telemetry-driven evaluation

Help implement monitoring and feedback loops for AI-enabled mobile behavior in production

Ensure AI-enabled mobile capabilities meet security, privacy, compliance, accessibility, and user trust requirements

Mobile Technical Leadership & Architecture

Contribute to mobile architecture standards through hands-on implementation

Guide implementation decisions across native iOS, native Android, cross-platform frameworks, shared components, backend integration, data synchronization, security, and observability

Make thoughtful tradeoffs between native platform quality, cross-platform reuse, delivery speed, performance, correctness, and maintainability

Act as a technical escalation point for assigned mobile areas, including performance, memory, battery usage, offline behavior, crash stability, OS compatibility, release quality, and integration reliability

Influence technical direction within the team and across related mobile workstreams

Provide technical leadership for assigned projects by coordinating architecture input, engineering execution, dependency management, risk mitigation, mobile release planning, and cross-team alignment

Communicate clearly with product owners, UX/design, engineering leaders, backend teams, security, DevOps/SRE, QA, support, and business stakeholders to keep delivery aligned with business outcomes

AI-Assisted Mobile Engineering & Developer Productivity

Use AI-powered development tools such as GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, and mobile-specific automation to accelerate high-quality delivery

Follow and promote best practices for safe, high-quality AI-assisted mobile coding

Use AI tools for mobile solution design, architecture analysis, refactoring, test generation, debugging, system comprehension, documentation, and release readiness

Improve developer productivity through reusable mobile components, shared architecture patterns, CI/CD automation, test automation, build optimization, and platform tooling

Help the team adopt modern mobile workflows that improve velocity while maintaining engineering rigor, security, accessibility, and release quality

Mentorship & Team Elevation

Mentor engineers through pairing, code reviews, architecture discussions, and implementation support

Help mid-level and senior engineers strengthen mobile engineering practices and ownership

Coach teammates on modern mobile architecture, cross-platform development, AI-aware engineering practices, quality engineering, observability, and secure development

Promote a culture of continuous learning, ownership, customer empathy, and technical excellence

Lead by example with clear communication, accountability, collaboration, and hands-on technical contribution

Mobile Execution, Quality & Operations

Build and maintain enterprise mobile applications using modern native and/or cross-platform frameworks

Implement integrations with RESTful APIs, GraphQL services, event-driven workflows, identity providers, analytics platforms, and mobile backend services

Optimize mobile applications for performance, memory usage, battery life, network efficiency, offline behavior, accessibility, localization, and reliability

Partner with DevOps/SRE and QA to support strong mobile CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, build signing, release automation, observability, crash reporting, and safe deployments

Support release quality across TestFlight, Google Play testing tracks, App Store, and Google Play production releases

Participate fully in the SDLC: design, coding, testing, deployment, production support, incident response, and continuous improvement

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

7+ years of professional software development experience, including significant hands-on mobile engineering experience

Proven experience delivering complex mobile applications, mobile features, or mobile platform capabilities

Experience contributing to modernization of legacy mobile applications, mobile architectures, or mobile delivery practices

Hands-on experience building and shipping iOS and Android applications, with cross-platform mobile development experience

Experience applying AI-assisted development tools and AI-driven engineering practices to improve quality, speed, testing, documentation, and maintainability

History of hands-on technical leadership within a team, project, or mobile workstream

Experience mentoring engineers and supporting code quality through reviews and technical guidance

Proven ability to lead assigned project workstreams, coordinate with cross-functional stakeholders, manage technical risks, and drive execution through delivery

Technical Skills

Strong mobile engineering experience across iOS and Android

Strong proficiency with Swift and iOS platform development, including Apple platform conventions, app lifecycle, concurrency, networking, persistence, testing, and App Store release practices

Strong proficiency with Kotlin and Android platform development, including Android architecture, Jetpack, coroutines, networking, persistence, testing, and Google Play release practices

Hands-on experience with cross-platform mobile technologies such as React Native, Flutter, Kotlin Multiplatform, .NET MAUI, or equivalent frameworks

Solid understanding of mobile architecture patterns such as MVVM, MVI, Clean Architecture, modular architecture, dependency injection, and design-system integration

Experience integrating mobile apps with RESTful APIs, GraphQL, identity providers, telemetry platforms, crash reporting, analytics, feature flags, and remote configuration

Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools and AI-enabled engineering workflows

Working knowledge of LLM-powered product experiences, AI service integration, prompt-driven workflows, structured outputs, validation, and responsible AI guardrails

Strong understanding of mobile security, secure storage, authentication, authorization, privacy, encryption, certificate pinning, OWASP Mobile risks, and compliance-aware engineering

Strong experience with mobile testing strategies, including unit testing, UI automation, integration testing, contract testing, snapshot testing, and regression automation

Experience with mobile CI/CD, build automation, signing, provisioning, release tracks, app store submission, observability, and production monitoring

Comfort working with cloud environments and backend integration patterns across AWS and/or Azure

Proficient with Git and modern development workflows

Strong understanding of production-quality code, performance tuning, reliability engineering, accessibility, and user-centered mobile design

Experience with .NET MAUI, or other cross-platform mobile frameworks at scale

Experience building shared mobile platform libraries, SDKs, design systems, or reusable component frameworks

Experience with offline-first mobile applications, synchronization, conflict resolution, and intermittent connectivity scenarios

Experience with mobile observability, crash analytics, performance monitoring, synthetic monitoring, and SLO-driven reliability practices

Experience integrating AI-powered features into mobile applications, including on-device AI, cloud AI services, personalization, automation, or contextual assistants

Experience with regulated, security-sensitive, or compliance-driven mobile applications

Background with event streaming, messaging, or real-time data workflows

Strong background in Agile/Scrum environments

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent practical experience

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE

You are consistently delivering high-quality mobile features and improvements across iOS and Android

Mobile applications are becoming more reliable, performant, secure, observable, accessible, and easier to release

Legacy mobile systems are being improved incrementally without disrupting customers or business operations

AI-assisted engineering practices improve team velocity, code quality, test coverage, and documentation quality

AI-enabled mobile capabilities are implemented responsibly, monitored effectively, and trusted in production

The team moves faster because of the mobile patterns, tools, automation, and examples you help establish

Engineers seek you out for guidance on mobile implementation, cross-platform decisions, AI-assisted development, release quality, and production issues

Assigned projects are well-scoped, well-communicated, and delivered through effective collaboration with product, design, engineering, operations, security, QA, and business stakeholders

Code quality, mobile reliability, release confidence, and development velocity improve measurably

You are recognized as a lead engineer who ships, collaborates effectively, and raises the quality of the team around you