RethinkFirst

Mobile Engineering Team Lead

Remote
Full Time
Technology
Experienced

About RethinkFirst 

RethinkFirst is a leading behavioral health technology company working to make mental wellness, education, and support accessible and scalable. Through our suite of cloud-based platforms—including RethinkEd, RethinkCare, and RethinkBH—we serve educators, employers, and providers with tools that deliver measurable, inclusive outcomes. 

We're on a mission to make behavioral health more effective, equitable, and human.
 

About the Role 

We are hiring a Mobile Engineering Team Lead to own the technical direction, delivery, and quality of our native and cross-platform mobile applications across iOS and Android. This is a hands-on leadership role: you will write code, review code, set standards, mentor engineers, and be directly accountable for shipping. You will operate as an AI-first engineer, leveraging Cursor, Claude Code, or equivalent tooling as a core part of your daily workflow — not as a novelty. 

This is not a people-manager-only role. If you have not shipped production mobile code in the last 12 months, this is not for you.
 

What You Will Do 

  • Lead a team of iOS and Android engineers through the full delivery lifecycle: scoping, estimation, architecture, implementation, testing, release, and post-release monitoring. 

  • Own the mobile technical roadmap, including platform strategy, dependency management, CI/CD pipelines, release cadence, and store submission processes for both Apple App Store and Google Play. 

  • Set and enforce engineering standards: code review discipline, automated testing coverage (unit, integration, UI/E2E), crash-free session targets, performance budgets, and accessibility compliance. 

  • Drive a test-first culture. You are responsible for defining what "done" means and ensuring the team meets it. Expect to defend coverage thresholds and reject work that does not. 

  • Operate as an AI-first engineer and require the same of your team. Use Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or equivalent for code generation, refactoring, test scaffolding, and review. Establish team norms for prompt patterns, model selection, review of AI-generated output, and where AI tooling should and should not be trusted. 

  • Partner with product, design, backend, QA, and DevOps to translate ambiguous requirements into concrete, shippable work. 

  • Coach and grow engineers through 1:1s, pairing, structured feedback, and performance reviews. Hire when needed. 

  • Be the escalation point for production incidents affecting mobile clients. 
     

Required Qualifications 

  • 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 5 years building production mobile applications. 

  • 2+ years in a tech lead, staff, or engineering management role with direct responsibility for delivery outcomes. 

  • Strong, demonstrable expertise in iOS development: Swift, SwiftUI and/or UIKit, Combine or async/await, Xcode toolchain, App Store submission, TestFlight, code signing, and provisioning. 

  • Strong, demonstrable expertise in Android development: Kotlin, Jetpack Compose and/or the traditional View system, Coroutines/Flow, Android Studio, Gradle, Play Console, and Play Store submission. 

  • Deep understanding of mobile delivery: branching strategies, CI/CD (GitHub Actions, or equivalent), staged rollouts, feature flagging, OTA configuration, and crash/analytics tooling (Crashlytics, Sentry, Firebase, Datadog, or comparable). 

  • Deep understanding of mobile testing strategy: XCTest, XCUITest, Espresso, JUnit, snapshot testing, contract testing, and device-farm or cloud-device testing (BrowserStack, Firebase Test Lab, AWS Device Farm). 

  • Active, daily use of AI-assisted development tooling (Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, Windsurf, or equivalent) with an opinion on where it accelerates work and where it introduces risk. 

  • Excellent written and verbal communication. You can write a clear technical design doc, run a productive standup, give direct feedback without theatrics, and explain trade-offs to non-engineers. 
     

Preferred Qualifications 

  • Production experience with cross-platforms such as Flutter (Dart, state management patterns such as Riverpod/Bloc, platform channels, plugin authoring), React Native or Ionic. Candidates who have led a native-to-Flutter migration or shipped a substantial Flutter app are strongly preferred. 

  • Experience in health IT / digital health: HIPAA compliance, PHI handling, HL7/FHIR, EHR integrations (Epic, Cerner/Oracle Health, Athenahealth), SOC 2, HITRUST, or experience with FDA SaMD classification. 

  • Demonstrated fluency in Agile delivery (Scrum, Kanban, or Shape Up) as a practitioner rather than a ceremony-runner. You know when to bend the process and when to enforce it. 

  • Experience with native module bridging between cross-platform and platform-specific code. 

     

What We Are Looking For (Behaviorally) 

  • A builder who leads, not a manager who delegates. 

  • Direct communicator. Disagrees in the room, commits after the decision, and does not relitigate. 

  • Comfortable with ambiguity but allergic to indefinite ambiguity — you push for decisions. 

  • Treats testing and observability as features, not chores. 

  • Sees AI tooling as leverage to raise the team's ceiling, not a threat to defend against or a magic wand to wave at hard problems. 

     

What Will Disqualify You 

  • Inability to write code in a live technical interview. 

  • "I manage; I don't code anymore." 

  • Dismissiveness toward AI-assisted development, or conversely, uncritical reliance on it. 

  • No clear philosophy on testing, or a track record of shipping with no automated tests. 
     

Benefits: 

  • Generous health, dental, & vision benefits package
  • Flexible paid time off   
  • 11 paid company holidays
  • 401k + matching
  • Parental leave
  • Access to our award-winning RethinkCare platform supporting neurodiversity in the workplace through parental success, professional resilience, and personal wellbeing.  
 

Location: Remote opportunities are available to candidates who reside in the following states: AL, AZ, CT, FL, GA, HI, IA, IL, IN, KY, LA, MD, MA, MI, MN, MO, MT, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NV, OH, OR, PA, RI, TN, TX, VA, WA, WI, WY

Recruiting Fraud Alert: Job applicants should be aware that there are external parties posing as RethinkFirst recruiters. These scams may include fraudulent communications via social media platforms (such as LinkedIn), email, or requests to schedule interviews.  Note that any recruiting related communication you receive from RethinkFirst would come from an @rethinkfirst.com e-mail address, @applytojob.com email address (via our talent acquisition system), ‘[email protected]’ email address, and/or be found on the Rethinkfirst.com website.  Please also note that at no point during our recruitment process will we request any form of monetary payment.  If you believe that you have been a victim of job recruiting fraud, you should file a report with your local law enforcement. 

Our commitment to an inclusive workplace 

RethinkFirst is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing a workplace free from harassment and discrimination. We celebrate the unique differences of our employees because that is what drives curiosity, innovation, and the success of our business. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws. Accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities. 

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