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Read AI is an AI-powered collaboration platform that brings intelligence to meetings, messages, and email. The company has raised $81M from top-tier investors (Smash Capital, Madrona, Goodwater Capital) and is growing rapidly, adding over 1M new customers monthly.
The Mobile Team owns the iOS and Android apps that capture high-value audio data and deliver real-time AI-generated transcripts and summaries. You'll take significant ownership of mobile app development and help shape the future of Read AI's mobile experience.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own major feature areas end-to-end across iOS (Swift, SwiftUI) and Android (Kotlin, Jetpack Compose), from technical design through implementation, testing, rollout, and iteration.
- Lead development of new mobile features and product improvements, driving execution and aligning partners on scope, tradeoffs, and timelines.
- Build and enhance real-time audio capture and processing across platforms using AVFoundation (iOS) and Android audio frameworks.
- Optimize app performance, reliability, battery usage, and latency for smooth real-time AI-powered transcription and summarization.
- Design and implement AI-powered mobile interactions, including chat-based experiences for exploring meeting reports and insights.
- Partner with product, design, and ML teams to prototype and ship novel mobile UX patterns for conversational AI.
- Evolve mobile architecture patterns, state management, and shared engineering standards to support rapid iteration and maintainability at scale.
- Establish best practices for code quality, testing, release hygiene, observability, and performance profiling across both platforms.
- Implement strong security, privacy, data handling, and offline-first support for reliable cross-device experiences.
- Mentor other engineers through design reviews, pairing, and code review; contribute to hiring and team growth.
Required Qualifications:
- 8+ years of development experience.
- Strong production experience building iOS (Swift/SwiftUI) and/or Android (Kotlin/Jetpack Compose) apps.
- Proven ability to own complex features end-to-end, including technical design, execution, rollout, and iteration.
- Solid understanding of mobile architecture patterns, state management, and building maintainable UI at scale.
- Experience with real-time audio capture and processing using AVFoundation (iOS) and/or Android audio APIs.
- Familiarity with background execution, offline storage, and syncing data reliably across devices and network conditions.
- Experience integrating mobile apps with RESTful APIs, WebSockets, and event-driven backends.
- Strong product instincts and deep care for customer workflows.
- Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Nice-to-Have:
- Real-time audio processing or speech-to-text application experience.
- Backend development in Python, FastAPI, or Node.js.
- PostgreSQL, Redis, and Celery experience.
- AWS, GCP, or Azure cloud infrastructure experience.
- Startup or fast-growing company experience.
