Senior Software Engineer - Mobile

About the role

About U: At Read AI https://www.read.ai/we’re 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.