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# Lead Mobile Engineer

- **Company:** Workshop Venture Partners, LLC
- **Location:** Austin, TX, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $160,000.0 - $190,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Geographic Information Systems, Apple IOS, App Store (IOS), Software Quality, Software Debugging, Hardware Design, Mobile Application Software, Software Engineering, Data Streaming, TypeScript, User Interface Testing, Backend, React Native
- **Published:** June 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=669fc472bf3b1222

## About the Role

Do you have experience in iOS application development?, * 5+ years building production mobile applications, with strong experience in typescript React Native apps.

 * Shipped and maintained apps on both the App Store and Play Store
 * Comfortable debugging natively on both iOS and Android
 * Experience driving design & product-level decisions
 * Willing to work in-person in Austin and to eventually build and lead a team
 * Experience in automated UI testing

Nice to have

 * Expo
 * Mapping/geolocation experience (mapbox specifically)
 * BLE / NFC experience
 * Hardware integration background

## Description

As the Lead Mobile Developer, you'll own and scale the React Native application that serves as the main touchpoint for ranchers to move and monitor their cattle. This is a high-impact role at the intersection of geospatial data, livestock operations, and connected hardware. Performance and reliability here directly affect the animals, land, and livelihoods of our customers.

We're an early-stage startup. You'll have high ownership in what you build and a real hand in where the product goes. You'll own our mapbox-powered maps, the user experience, and the data flows that keep everything in sync with our backend. Over time, you'll grow and lead a mobile team.

What You'll Do

 * Lead, build and scale our React Native / Expo app from an early stage, shipping to both the App Store and Play Store
 * Own the mapping and geolocation experience ranchers use to manage cattle in the field
 * Design the data flows and offline/sync behavior that keep the app in lockstep with our backend and connected devices
 * Integrate with our wearable hardware (BLE/NFC)
 * Debug and optimize across both iOS and Android
 * Use AI-assisted development to move fast - while verifying your own work and not sacrificing code quality or readability
 * Monitor and optimize app performance - load times, responsiveness, and battery efficiency in the field, where ranchers rely on the app on long days away from a charger


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