Sr. Native Mobile Engineer; Android & iOS); Remote

Who We Are (Mode.Inc)

Mode.

Inc is the parent company of a portfolio of technology businesses, including Mode Mobile, the creator of EarnOS, a transformational software platform that turns ordinary smartphones into "Earn Phones". This innovation empowers users worldwide to monetize everyday mobile activities such as streaming, gaming, and shopping. We enable users to profit from their data and attention, rather than letting only tech giants benefit.

What sets us apart is our inclusive approach, converting users into earners, facilitating over $150M in earnings and savings, and going a step further by turning earners into owners by awarding stock ownership in Mode.

Inc based on their usage. We have attracted over 40 million users across 170 countries.

Mode Mobile, Inc. Ranked Number 1 Fastest Growing Company in North America on the 2023 Deloitte Technology Fast 500.

For additional insights, check out information about our reward-based super app, Mode Earn App, which also powers the reward engine for our proprietary smartphone, Mode Earn Phone.

Our Team and Culture Drive Our Success

Our team is the heart of our culture. We value innovation, collaboration, and curiosity, with a passion for getting things done. We strive to hire and cultivate the best team members and foster a culture of open communication and transparency. We are driven and hard-working but also committed to having fun along the way. We allow OKRs to guide us, assume positive intent, sometimes agree to disagree and commit, honor our commitments, seek to accomplish more with less, and encourage everyone to speak up as our team owns our company’s success.

You can read more about our team and how we work here.

The Role

Mode.

Inc is looking for a Senior Native Mobile Engineer to join the team taking ownership of our newly acquired VPN product and the additional apps we will be acquiring. You will own the Android and iOS mobile domain end-to-end: a consumer VPN with 10M+ installs, 1,000+ servers in 45+ countries, and users in some of the most restrictive network environments in the world.

This is an ownership-heavy role: you'll inherit existing mobile codebases, understand how the apps interact with the VPN networking stack, close knowledge gaps from the acquired team, improve engineering quality and release processes, and ship product improvements that directly impact users and the business.

The apps sit on top of a custom Go networking engine (Shadowsocks / Wire Guard) delivered as a native library, plus OpenVPN via Tunnel Kit on iOS, and you will be the person who makes that engine feel fast, reliable, and effortless to users. We are a user-facing product-led team, and we are looking for someone who is passionate about building private, secure products that people depend on every day.

You’ll work closely with the backend engineer, Dev Ops/network engineer, product managers, designers, marketing, operations, and several stakeholders to define and execute according to our strategic roadmap to accelerate our future growth.

Who You Are and What You’ll Do

• You are passionate about giving people private, secure, and unrestricted access to the internet. You care about your users and the trust they place in the product.
• You’re an expert in smartphone technology and love mobile application software, equally comfortable shipping on Android and iOS, and you are not afraid to go below the app layer into VPN tunnels, network extensions, and platform APIs.
• You know how to integrate and debug native libraries (.aar / .framework) written in other languages, and you don't need to be a Go expert, but you should be comfortable reading Go and debugging across the mobile/native-library boundary when investigating VPN issues.
• You enjoy inheriting an existing…