Staff Mobile Engineer (Observability)

TL;DR

Staff Mobile Engineer (iOS/Android): Building and evolving mobile instrumentation SDKs for end-to-end observability, with an accent on performance, stability, and developer experience. Focus on designing features like session tracking, crash reporting, and OpenTelemetry integrations for reliable software at scale.

Location: This is a remote opportunity and we would be interested in applicants based in Spain, Germany, the UK or Sweden at this time.

Compensation: £103,958–£124,750

Company

hirify.global is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse providing observability solutions with its Grafana LGTM Stack for over 3,000 companies.

What you will do

• Build and evolve mobile instrumentation SDKs for iOS (Swift / Obj-C) and Android (Kotlin / Java).
• Design and ship SDK features such as session tracking, crash reporting, and OpenTelemetry integrations.
• Own projects end-to-end, breaking down large, ambiguous problems into incremental deliverables.
• Ensure quality through automated tests, CI, documentation, and smooth, backwards-compatible upgrades.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with backend, frontend, product, and solutions engineering teams.
• Engage with the open-source community and mentor teammates, shaping the mobile observability roadmap.

Requirements

• Strong mobile engineering experience (iOS Swift/Objective-C and/or Android Kotlin/Java).
• Demonstrated experience building or maintaining mobile SDKs, platform libraries, or other developer-facing platform code.
• Experience working with performance-sensitive code (startup time, memory, network efficiency).
• Familiarity with OpenTelemetry (instrumentation, SDKs, collectors) or similar telemetry libraries.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Comfortable working in a fully remote, globally distributed team.
• Motivated self-starter with a bias toward action, operating autonomously while being highly collaborative.

Nice to have

• Contributions to OpenTelemetry, crash reporting libraries, or other observability OSS.
• Experience with cross-platform frameworks (React Native, Flutter) or building native bindings/bridges.
• Experience with mobile security, privacy, or platform integration challenges.
• Prior work on crash aggregation, session replay, or sampling for mobile telemetry.

Culture & Benefits

• 100% Remote, Global Culture uniting talent from around the world.
• Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment.
• Transparent communication, open decision-making, and regular company-wide updates.
• Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things.
• 30 days annual leave, with 3 days reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days.
• Access to modern AI coding assistants and frontier models for pragmatic AI-assisted development.