Principal Software Engineer (Mobile, Fintech)

TL;DR

Principal Software Engineer (Mobile, Fintech): Shaping technical direction, architecture, and quality of TurboTax Mobile across iOS and Android. Focus on architectural decisions, influencing platform strategy, and mentoring senior engineers, partnering with various teams to solve complex problems and raise technical standards.

Location: Mountain View, California; San Diego, California

Salary: $242,000 - $344,000

Company

hirify.global is a global technology platform that helps consumers and small businesses overcome their most important financial challenges.

What you will do

• Provide technical leadership and architectural direction for TurboTax Mobile across iOS and Android.
• Define and uphold engineering standards for architecture, reliability, performance, security, testing, and release practices.
• Drive cross-platform consistency and parity while leveraging platform-specific strengths.
• Lead design and implementation of large-scale mobile systems that operate reliably during peak tax season.
• Mentor and coach senior and staff engineers, providing guidance through design reviews and technical feedback.
• Influence technical decisions beyond mobile by contributing to broader Consumer Platform initiatives.

Requirements

• 12+ years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in mobile application development.
• Proven experience as a technical leader on large-scale consumer mobile applications.
• Strong expertise in iOS (Swift/Objective-C) and/or Android (Kotlin/Java), with the ability to influence both platforms.
• Demonstrated experience leading architecture and design for complex, distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of mobile performance optimization, observability, CI/CD pipelines, testing strategies, and release management.
• Experience operating in customer-critical, high-availability systems, including incident response and prevention.

Nice to have

• Experience in FinTech, SaaS, or regulated environments with high quality and security standards.
• Experience driving cross-team and cross-organization technical alignment.
• Familiarity with feature flags, experimentation frameworks, and progressive rollout strategies.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence senior engineering and product leaders.

Culture & Benefits

• hirify.global provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach.
• Eligibility for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs.