Senior Cross-Platform Mobile Engineer

Role Summary:

The Senior Mobile Engineer will help design, build, and maintain athenahealth’s patient-facing mobile applications with a focus on native Android and iOS development. Based in Austin, TX, this is a hybrid role that requires strong technical ownership across mobile architecture, performance, accessibility, and secure handling of sensitive health data. This role partners closely with product, design, QA, backend, and clinical stakeholders to deliver reliable mobile experiences for a diverse patient population. This position reports to the Senior Engineering Manager.

Team Summary / Why Join Us

We are looking for a Senior Mobile Engineer with deep hands-on experience in Android development using Jetpack Compose and iOS development using Swift. In this small, collaborative team, you will have meaningful technical ownership across mobile architecture, product quality, and delivery for patient-facing applications.

What Great Looks Like a Year In

You are contributing effectively across both Android and iOS, making sound technical decisions, and helping the team ship mobile features with strong quality and reliability. You are a trusted partner to product and design and have helped improve the team’s shared mobile development practices.

What Is Genuinely Hard About This Role

This role requires strong expertise in both Android and iOS development, which is uncommon and important to the work. You will be managing ownership across two native codebases while supporting a patient-facing product with high expectations for security, accessibility, and usability. Success in this role depends on clear communication, thoughtful technical judgment, and steady execution across evolving priorities.

Essential Job Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain native Android applications using Jetpack Compose and iOS applications using Swift.
• Own and evolve mobile architecture decisions that support scalability, maintainability, performance, security, accessibility, reliability, and delivery across both platforms.
• Deliver secure, accessible, high-quality patient-facing mobile experiences.
• Partner with product, design, QA, backend, and clinical stakeholders to translate requirements into effective technical solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver releases, resolve technical issues, and improve product quality.
• Conduct code reviews, evaluate technical tradeoffs, and contribute to engineering standards that improve consistency and maintainability.
• Apply AI-assisted development tools and workflows to improve productivity, explore implementation options, and support delivery efficiency.

Additional Job Responsibilities

• Support release planning, issue triage, root-cause analysis, and technical problem solving in a small team environment.
• Mentor teammates and share technical knowledge through code reviews, pairing, documentation, and informal knowledge sharing.
• Help raise the team’s overall mobile engineering capability.
• Help improve mobile development practices, tooling, release workflows, and cross-platform consistency.