Mobile Engineer

What We Do

BirdDog helps landowners steward their land with clarity confidence and purpose.

We are a tech-enabled land intelligence platform and marketplace that connects private land to opportunity—whether through hunting and recreation agriculture conservation programs tax optimization or long-term stewardship.

We operate at the intersection of land data and trust. By combining AI-driven insights with real-world expertise BirdDog simplifies complex decisions and turns acres into income—without compromising legacy or conservation.

Where We Are Going

Our goal is to become the most trusted platform where landowners come to understand their property surface monetization opportunities and take action.

That means:

• Scaling technology that brings transparency and centrality to historically opaque land decisions and disparate solutions
• Expanding services that align profitability with stewardship
• Growing a brand that stands for trust independence and long-term thinking

We’re moving fast and building something to last.

About the Role

We are seeking a mid to senior level Mobile Engineer to design build and scale native mobile experiences for our land intelligence platform. You will play a critical role in shaping mobile architecture making key technical decisions and ensuring our apps are fast reliable and a joy to use in the field—where our users often are.

This role is ideal for someone who has hands-on experience building production mobile applications and is looking to take ownership of architecture decisions platform strategy and technical direction on a small high-impact team.

BirdDog runs on extreme ownership. We're a small team that does whatever it takes to ship solve problems and deliver for our users. We value simplicity over complexity by choosing pragmatic fit-to-purpose solutions versus over-engineered architectures. We leave egos at the door—strong opinions are welcome but loosely held. If you thrive with autonomy take pride in owning outcomes end-to-end and aren't afraid to step outside your lane when the situation calls for it—you'll fit right in.

Key Responsibilities

• Mobile Development: Build high-quality native mobile applications for iOS and/or Android using modern declarative UI frameworks (SwiftUI Jetpack Compose)
• AI-Driven Development: This is table stakes. We expect aggressive intelligent leverage of AI tools to accelerate delivery and automate work across the stack. The focus shifts to where human expertise matters most: high-level architecture critical decision-making and deep quality assurance
• Architecture Ownership: Own mobile architecture decisions evaluate trade-offs and drive technical direction—whether that means native-first cross-platform or a hybrid approach based on what fits the problem
• Platform Strategy: Evaluate build-vs-buy decisions and platform strategies (native cross-platform shared business logic) that balance development velocity user experience and long-term maintainability
• API Integration: Integrate with backend services and third-party APIs handling offline scenarios syncing and network resilience gracefully.
• Performance & Quality: Optimize app performance (startup time memory battery usage) and implement testing strategies that ensure reliability without slowing the team down
• Collaboration: Work closely with backend engineers product and leadership to deliver features that directly impact landowners hunters and farmers

Qualifications

Required

• 5+ years of professional experience as a Mobile Engineer or related role
• Strong proficiency in iOS (Swift SwiftUI) and/or Android (Kotlin Jetpack Compose) development
• Experience building and shipping production mobile applications to the App Store and/or Google Play
• Solid understanding of mobile architecture patterns and state management
• Experience integrating with RESTful APIs and handling offline/sync scenarios
• Demonstrated ability to make architectural decisions and evaluate technical trade-offs
• Strong communication skills and ability to work autonomously

Preferred

• Experience with both iOS and Android development
• Experience with Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) for shared business logic
• Familiarity with cross-platform frameworks (React Native Flutter)
• Background in land agriculture or outdoor industries
• Experience with mapping SDKs (Mapbox MapLibre Google Maps)
• Experience knowing when (and when not) to share code across platforms

What We Do

BirdDog helps landowners steward their land with clarity confidence and purpose. We are a tech-enabled land intelligence platform and marketplace that connects private land to opportunity—whether through hunting and recreation agriculture conservation programs tax optimization or long-term stewardship.We operate at the intersection of land data and trust. By combining AI-driven insights with real-world expertise BirdDog simplifies complex decisions and turns acres into income—without compromising legacy or conservation.Our goal is to become the most trusted platform where landowners come to understand their property surface monetization opportunities and take action.That means:- Scaling technology that brings transparency and centrality to historically opaque land decisions and disparate solutions- Expanding services that align profitability with stewardship- Growing a brand that stands for trust independence and long-term thinkingWe’re moving fast and building something to last.

Why Work With Us

We're building the intelligence layer for America's land economy — a problem no one else is solving at this scale. Small team senior talent real ownership. Your work ships fast and directly impacts landowners and hunters across the country. Modern stack no bureaucracy and a mission you can actually see from a truck window.