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About U: At Read AI read.ai redefining how teams collaborate by bringing intelligence to every conversation. Our platform supercharges productivity across meetings, messages, and email, so work gets done faster, smarter, and with better focus. We integrate seamlessly with tools like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Slack, and more, helping teams stay aligned and move forward, whether they’re in the same room or across time zones. Backed by $81 million in funding from Smash Capital, Madrona, and Goodwater Capital, Read AI is growing. If you're excited to shape the future of AI-powered collaboration and want to make an impact at a product-focused startup, we’d love to meet you. The Role: The Mobile Team’s mission is to capture and process high-value audio data that powers Read AI’s downstream applications - delivering smarter, real-time insights across a wide range of use cases. We thrive on creativity, collaboration, and technical innovation, building mobile experiences that serve thousands of users every day. Our iOS and Android apps let users instantly capture audio and receive AI-generated transcripts and summaries in real time, helping them stay present and engaged during conversations. As we expand when and where users interact with Read AI, we’re building a seamless cross-device experience so users can record, watch, and access Read AI anywhere. We’re looking for a Senior Mobile Engineer to take significant ownership of our mobile apps and help shape the future of Read AI. This role is pivotal in scaling high-performance, AI-powered experiences to a broader audience. You’ll partner deeply with product, design, and ML to ship new capabilities, and you’ll help raise the bar through mentorship, technical leadership, and strong engineering fundamentals. If you’re excited about building fast, reliable mobile products and delivering real-world impact through AI, we’d love to hear from you. 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. - Help lead the 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, leveraging AVFoundation (iOS) and Android audio frameworks to ensure high-quality recordings and accurate transcription. - Optimize app performance, reliability, battery usage, and latency to deliver smooth, real-time AI-powered transcription and summarization. - Design and implement AI-powered mobile interactions, including chat-based experiences that let users explore, query, and take action on meeting reports and insights. - Partner closely with product, design, and ML teams to prototype and ship novel mobile UX patterns for conversational AI, making complex information feel intuitive, fast, and useful. - Evolve mobile architecture patterns, state management, and shared engineering standards to support rapid iteration and maintainability at scale. - Establish and uphold 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 to ensure user trust and reliable cross-device experiences. - Mentor and support other engineers through design reviews, pairing, and code review, helping grow technical skills and product instincts across the team. - Contribute to hiring by defining role expectations, participating in interviews, and helping raise the overall bar for the mobile team. Requirements: - 8+ years of development experience. - Strong experience building and shipping production mobile apps on iOS (Swift/SwiftUI) and/or Android (Kotlin/Jetpack Compose). - 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 - you care deeply about customer workflows and build experiences that are fast, intuitive, and reliable. - Strong communication skills - the ability to collaborate across product, design, and other engineering teams and drive alignment on tradeoffs. Nice to have: - Prior experience with real-time audio processing or speech-to-text applications is a bonus. - Backend development experience in Python, FastAPI, or Node.js - Familiarity with PostgreSQL, Redis, and Celery for handling real-time data and background jobs. - Experience working with AWS, GCP, or Azure for cloud-based infrastructure and services. - Prior experience in a startup or fast-growing environment. - Why Read AI? - Innovative: We bring AI to the masses with proactive technology that acts as the ultimate AI assistant. Built on our proprietary, patented technology, Read AI takes notes, surfaces information, facilitates collaboration, and learns you, making individuals and teams more effective. - Massive Impact: AI's greatest impact will be on the ability to allow people to do more, taking away mundane tasks, and guiding them to the next best action. - Growth Opportunities: Read AI is the fastest growing AI-copilot and meeting notetaker in history, and is one of the leading AI companies in the world, adding more than 1MM new customers every month. The company raised Series A and B in 2024, also was recognized as a Top Startup in Seattle by LinkedIn (2025), also notably a Top Company To Watch in 2025 inc.com by Inc Magazine, and is one of the Top AI Companies in Demand by Startups techcrunch.com, according to a16z. - Leadership: Learn more about CEO and Co-Founder David Shim in this Fortune Good Life profile fortune.com and listen to him share his vision for AI Agents, Digital Twins and the Future of Work podscan.fm. CTO and Co-Founder Rob Williams was recently anointed as one of the most disruptive leaders in AI builtin.com. For more on our technology, Co-Founder and VP Data Science Elliott Waldron goes behind-the-scenes on our patents and models in this tech brief read.ai. - Collaborative Culture: Work in a supportive and collaborative environment with a diverse and talented team. Senior Software Engineer positions offer a base pay range of $190,000 - $210,000 plus equity and benefits. Please note that the base pay shown is a guideline, and individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, competencies, and work location. We also offer low deductible health plans, as well as flexible time away and family leave programs. Please note our company does not provide visa support or sponsorship for employees.

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If you’re excited about building fast, reliable mobile products and delivering real-world impact through AI, we’d love to hear from you.
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.
Help lead the 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, leveraging AVFoundation (iOS) and Android audio frameworks to ensure high-quality recordings and accurate transcription.
Optimize app performance, reliability, battery usage, and latency to deliver smooth, real-time AI-powered transcription and summarization.
Design and implement AI-powered mobile interactions, including chat-based experiences that let users explore, query, and take action on meeting reports and insights.
Partner closely with product, design, and ML teams to prototype and ship novel mobile UX patterns for conversational AI, making complex information feel intuitive, fast, and useful.
Evolve mobile architecture patterns, state management, and shared engineering standards to support rapid iteration and maintainability at scale.
Establish and uphold 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 to ensure user trust and reliable cross-device experiences.
Mentor and support other engineers through design reviews, pairing, and code review, helping grow technical skills and product instincts across the team.
Contribute to hiring by defining role expectations, participating in interviews, and helping raise the overall bar for the mobile team.
8+ years of development experience.
Strong experience building and shipping production mobile apps on iOS (Swift/SwiftUI) and/or Android (Kotlin/Jetpack Compose).
Proven ability to own complex features end-to-end, including technical design, execution, rollout, and iteration.

Nice-to-haves

Prior experience with real-time audio processing or speech-to-text applications is a bonus.
Backend development experience in Python, FastAPI, or Node.js
Familiarity with PostgreSQL, Redis, and Celery for handling real-time data and background jobs.
Experience working with AWS, GCP, or Azure for cloud-based infrastructure and services.
Prior experience in a startup or fast-growing environment.
Why Read AI?
Massive Impact: AI's greatest impact will be on the ability to allow people to do more, taking away mundane tasks, and guiding them to the next best action.
Collaborative Culture: Work in a supportive and collaborative environment with a diverse and talented team.
Please note our company does not provide visa support or sponsorship for employees.

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