Founding Engineer (Consumer Apps)

Join Placer, a leading data platform, as the Founding Engineer for our new B2C team. In this role, you will be responsible for architecting, building, and launching our first consumer apps on Android and iOS, as well as the backend services that support them. You will own the entire technical product, from the mobile apps to the user experience, and will work closely with the Vice President of Consumer Apps. This is a unique opportunity to be a key player in shaping the future of Placer's consumer offerings.

Architect, build and ship Placer's first consumer apps on Android and iOS, plus the backend services behind them, as the team's first engineer.

About Placer.ai

• A real passion for UX, with shipped consumer experiences the candidate can walk through screen by screen and explain the choices behind
• Comfort integrating generative AI into day-to-day workflows to boost productivity, quality, and output

Responsibilities

• Own the quality of the consumer experience: onboarding, the permission ask, the core engagement loop and every screen in between.
• Ship on a move fast, fail fast cadence. Release small experiments in days, not months, measure each one against the funnel.

Experience integrating SDKs into consumer mobile apps

• Mastery of AI development tools such as coding agents and AI-assisted design, testing and code review, with concrete examples of how they multiplied the candidate's output on a small team
• Backend experience building APIs and data services on a cloud platform (Python and GCP preferred)

Requirements

• Clear written and verbal communication, and the judgment to raise risks early
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 6+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 4 years on B2C products: consumer-facing mobile apps shipped to the general public
• Direct experience with App Store and Google Play review, including data-safety declarations and working through policy rejections
• Deep expertise on one native platform (Android/Kotlin or iOS/Swift) and working fluency on the other, or equivalent cross-platform experience with native modules
• A record of taking at least one consumer app from zero to launch as a founding or early engineer, and scaling it after launch
• Does well in a move fast, fail fast environment: comfortable shipping imperfect first versions, reading the data, and throwing away work that doesn't perform
• Demonstrated use of AI tools to work more efficiently—whether professionally or personally—and a curiosity for finding new ways to apply them

Pay

USD 200,000 - 240,000