Key skills
Mobile app developmentPerformance tuningAccessibility complianceUnit testingNative iOS/Android developmentGeospatial technologiesLogistics domain experienceDebugging skillsContinuous integrationJavaCSwiftKotlinObjective-CiOSAndroidMobile DevelopmentPerformance OptimizationCustomer Success
About this role
Samsara is the pioneer of the Connected Operations™ Cloud, enabling organizations to harness IoT data for improved operations. The Senior Mobile Software Engineer will develop and maintain high-performance mobile applications, focusing on user experience and performance optimization for drivers in the field.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain high-performance mobile applications for iOS and Android, delivering complex features at enterprise scale
- Design and implement polished, user-friendly UI components with a focus on accessibility and consistency across platforms, ensuring an excellent mobile user experience
- Profile and optimize application performance and responsiveness by identifying bottlenecks, reducing render times, and improving memory usage, resulting in smooth and stable app behavior on all supported devices
- Integrate with native iOS/Android modules and APIs when needed by leveraging bridging capabilities to unlock platform-specific functionality
- Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to plan and build new mobile features, ensuring code quality through peer reviews, robust testing, and adherence to mobile development best practices
- Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices
Requirements:
- 6+ years of software development experience
- 4+ years of hands-on mobile app development experience
- Strong track record of performance tuning in mobile apps, including the use of profiling tools and techniques to diagnose and resolve performance issues
- Hands-on experience ensuring mobile app accessibility compliance, applying best practices so that the app is usable by all customers
- Solid testing and debugging skills in a mobile context – experience writing unit and integration tests, and utilizing continuous integration pipelines to maintain app stability and quality
- Hands-on mobile app development in production environments
- Proven experience creating native modules with native iOS and Android code (Objective-C/Swift and Java/Kotlin)
- Familiarity with geospatial or mapping technologies such as Mapbox or Google Maps SDK
- Domain experience in logistics, fleet management, or industrial IoT
- Background in native mobile development (Swift/Objective-C and Kotlin/Java)