Principle Mobile Software Engineer

About the Role

The Principal Software Engineer, Mobile is SharkNinja s deepest technical authority on mobile engineering — the person others come to when the patterns don t exist yet. You ll define the architectural standards and engineering principles that shape mobile across SharkNinja s connected product ecosystem, including SharkClean, NinjaPro Connect, and the next-generation unified app platform.

You ll tackle the most complex technical challenges at the intersection of mobile, firmware, cloud, AI, and consumer experience — exercising independent judgment on high-stakes, ambiguous decisions with long-term implications.

This is an IC role. Your authority comes from expertise and trust, not headcount.

What You ll Own

Solve the Hardest Technical Problems

• Own SharkNinja s most complex, non-recurring mobile challenges — spanning native iOS/Android, cross-platform frameworks, cloud integration, device connectivity, and AI-driven development.
• Make and defend high-stakes architecture and technology decisions with long-term impact on platform reliability and engineering velocity.

Define Technical Standards and Architecture

• Set and evolve mobile engineering standards — architecture patterns, cross-platform strategy, testing philosophy, and production-readiness criteria.
• Define integration patterns across mobile, cloud, firmware, and connected devices, and drive React Native vs. native platform strategy.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and AI coding tools, forming clear technical points of view.

Lead Technical Thought Leadership

• Serve as SharkNinja s go-to authority on mobile engineering across Mobile, Firmware, Cloud, Hardware, Product, and Design.
• Lead design reviews and communities of practice that raise engineering quality org-wide.

Elevate Engineering Capability

• Mentor senior and staff engineers through proximity to hard problems.
• Build reusable frameworks, reference architectures, and documentation that outlast any single project.
• Champion AI-driven development workflows across the mobile org.

Advance AI-Ready Mobile Architecture

• Define how the mobile platform integrates with AI — on-device inference, AI-powered features, and data contracts connecting mobile to cloud-based AI services.
• Solve mobile/AI integration challenges with no established playbook, ensuring the platform is built for the AI-powered features SharkNinja will ship next.

What You ll Bring

• 12+ years of progressive software engineering experience, with deep expertise in native iOS (Swift), Android (Kotlin), and React Native.
• A track record of solving the hardest mobile engineering problems — architecture, cross-platform unification, consumer-scale reliability — with measurable impact at scale.
• Deep expertise in mobile-to-cloud integration, BLE/Wi-Fi connectivity, and the full stack from firmware interfaces through cloud services.
• Recognized technical authority, sought out when the stakes are highest.
• Proven ability to set engineering standards and frameworks that scale across teams.
• Strong cross-functional influence built on technical credibility, not positional authority.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, translating complex decisions for le