SeniorPrincipal Mobile Engineer (fmx)

Hi! We are verkstedt.

We are a distributed team of software developers regularly meeting in the heart of Berlin and Cologne.

We are passionate about delivering high quality app web & chat applications with a strong focus on performance scalability and robust solutions that dont bother us during a nice board game session on a Saturday night. ;)

We are looking for a seasoned Senior/Principal Mobile Engineer (f/m/x) to join our team.

Join us and become part of a seasoned team of skilled engineers! We offer you the opportunity to shape and evolve large-scale software projects work flexibly and focus on code and shipping products not bureaucracy.

Software engineering is always about trade-offs. Thus we try to focus on implementing pragmatic solutions and getting things done rather than succumbing to dogmas.

Tasks

As Senior Mobile Engineer you will fundamentally help us shaping our mobile architecture & strategy across apps and SDKs and choose sensible paths (Hybrid Native vs. fully native) based on context.

Your tasks will involve a combination of the following:

• Define and evolve standards: project structure modularization testing (unit/E2E) performance accessibility privacy/GDPR.
• Design and own (native) mobile SDKs used by our apps and external partners (versioning API ergonomics documentation migration paths).
• Collaborate closely with backend engineers to shape ideal clientserver interfaces (error models pagination offline observability).
• Guide and multiply: mentor our team support and review external contributors and make modern AI tools part of a reliable daily workflow.
• Ship and stabilize: establish mobile CI/CD (e.g. Fastlane GH Actions) release processes (App Store/Play) crash analytics and performance monitoring.
• Collaborate with clients often in German to make trade-offs explicit and keep projects pragmatic.

Requirements

Our primary requirement fpr this role is a genuine passion for creating exceptional applications and guiding others in writing clean efficient code and an eagerness to collaborate on innovative projects.

Couple this with expert knowledge in React Native/Expo building production apps at scale and the ability to dive into native modules/bridges when needed youre the kind of seasoned professional were excited to invite for a coffee chat!

In more detail for us that would include:

• Solid understanding of both platforms native architectures and proficiency in Kotlin or Swift (comfortable reading/writing the other).
• Track record designing versioning and maintaining mobile SDKs consumed by multiple apps/teams.
• Bread-and-butter mobile practices: testing release mgmt telemetry performance accessibility privacy.
• Language: comfortable participating in and sometimes leading German-language meetings (B1); fluent in English.
• Collaborative and kind reviewer who believes there are many good pathsand helps the team pick one and ship.

Benefits

• a competitive salary.
• flexible working hours and location.
• time for working on offtopic projects during our regular Open Fridays and
• you can choose the gear you like.

Software development means hard work so we always make sure to have enough coffee fruits Club Mate & snacks in the office and at our place we also hold regular Board Game evenings for those interested.

Great! Simply fill in the application form below and we will get in touch as soon as we can.

What we usually do is to start with a quick chat via Zoom (or whatever channel works) to get to know each other and for you to ask any question that might come to mind.

If we all agree to proceed we would invite you to prepare a coding demo or a scenario which allows us during a second call to have a second interactive more indepth discussion with you about your work.

And thats basically all the application process there is.

Start would be ASAP and please note that were serious about a welcoming respectful environment our CoC (at the bottom of our website) applies to everyone.