Lead Mobile Engineer at Cape

The Company

Cape was founded in early 2022 by Palantir and Anduril alums with deep expertise in privacy and national security. While running Palantir’s US national security business, our CEO became passionate about privacy and security on mobile devices. Our mission is to be a force for good in global wireless.

At Cape, we are not just another cellular service provider; we are the architects of a privacy-centric movement that starts with the devices in your pocket. We are building a cellular network that helps citizens, including those responsible for our nation’s security, regain control of their own data.

We believe that where we are, where we go, and whom we are with are among our most personal information and should be kept private. Privacy is not something you achieve by limiting yourself or by doing less, it is a set of features to be built so you can do more. We have raised money from Andreessen Horowitz and other top-tier VCs, and are excited to grow the team.

The Team

We are relentless builders, constantly pushing the boundaries of what's possible and bringing to life ideas that have never before existed. Innovation is at the core of everything we do. At Cape, we trust our team to deliver greatness and empower them to make a profound impact. As a member of our team, you will collaborate seamlessly with our diverse group of talented engineers and other team members, enjoying dynamic interactions with colleagues from across the organization.

Mission

As Lead Mobile Engineer at Cape, you will lead and grow our mobile engineering team, overseeing the development of our iOS and Android applications. You will balance technical leadership with people management, ensuring the team is engaged and motivated, well-supported, and consistently delivering secure, high-quality mobile features on time. Your mission: drive our mobile strategy, nurture a strong engineering culture, and scale our mobile capabilities to meet the evolving needs of our users and business. This role will work in close partnership with other Engineering leaders and Product. This role reports to our Head of Software Engineering, Stephen Dowhy. 

Outcomes

• Team Leadership & Growth: Manage a team of 5 mobile engineers (including a new grad), fostering a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performance environment. Provide regular feedback, mentorship, and career development support.

• Hiring & Scaling: Own the hiring process for mobile engineers, building a diverse and skilled team as we grow. Define and refine team structure and responsibilities.

• Technical Strategy & Execution: Define the technical direction for our mobile platforms, ensuring architectural integrity, code quality, and scalability across iOS and Android.

• Product Delivery Ownership: Drive the planning, execution, and delivery of mobile features and products in collaboration with Product, Design, and Backend teams. Ensure timelines are met without compromising quality.

• Performance & Reliability: Ensure our mobile apps are performant, secure, and user-friendly, with robust monitoring, testing, and release processes in place.

• Cross-Platform Consistency: Maintain a unified product experience across iOS and Android, while respecting platform-specific best practices.

• Process Leadership: Continuously improve team workflows, from sprint planning to code reviews and retrospectives, fostering a culture of learning and iteration.
  

Qualifications

Preferred

• 5+ years of experience with Android development, 2+ years of experience with iOS development.

• Proficiency in Swift.

• Proficiency in Kotlin.

• Strong foundational understanding of background and asynchronous processing in Android using Kotlin coroutines.

• Strong foundational understanding of the Android ecosystem (Architecture, Lifecycle, Services, etc).

• Experience with modern Android libraries & frameworks such as Compose, Room, Hilt, and Kotlin DSL.

Nice to have

• Experience with gRPC.

• Experience with cryptography and trusted execution environments.

• Experience with carrier applications, eSIM, eUICC, and cellular technologies from both 4G & 5G.

Competencies

• Engineering Management: 2+ years of experience managing mobile engineering teams, with a strong focus on coaching, performance management, and team development.

• Mobile Expertise: Deep, hands-on experience with Android (Kotlin/Java) development, and some expertise with iOS (Swift/Objective-C). The ability to both provide technical guidance and execute across both platforms is a requirement.

• Hiring & Team Building: Proven ability to attract, assess, and retain top engineering talent; experience onboarding and developing junior engineers.

• Strategic Thinking: Ability to align technical decisions with business goals, balancing short-term delivery with long-term scalability.

• Delivery Focused: Strong technical skills; able to break down complex initiatives, set clear priorities, delegate when necessary, and deliver on time.

• Collaborative: Excellent communication skills, comfortable working across functions and levels, from engineers to executives.

• Security & Privacy Mindset: Familiar with cryptographic systems and designing privacy conscious solutions.

Our Culture 

• We are builders, and we choose to spend our time building things that matter. Many of our people have backgrounds in Defense Tech as well as the defense and intelligence community. We build to win.

• We hire excellent people, give them outsized responsibility, and trust them to execute at a high level. Everyone here has a track record of solving hard problems throughout their careers.

• We believe that personal privacy and national security interests are not inherently at odds, and can be reconciled via strong technology.

• We believe that companies exist to build awesome things and take care of their people. Our benefits reflect that– top-tier health care, 401(k) matching, and a generous vacation policy (that we actually use).

• We hire candidates of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital or family status, disability, Veteran status, and any other status. Achieving diversity across these categories will serve to make our company stronger and our product better.

How to apply

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