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Head of Data Apps Engineering

Chicago, IL; Redwood City, CA💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-17 → 2026-09-28

Core

Lead engineering for a portfolio of consumer mobile apps that generate permissioned data for financial services and advertising, acting as the consumer voice in ad-tech leadership.

Role type

Senior IC/Player-coach Head of Data Apps Engineering

Builds

Consumer mobile apps (React Native) and a shared backend platform for data generation and monetization

Domain

Fintech / Ad-tech / Mobile Apps

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

React Native, backend engineering, API design, cloud infrastructure, team leadership, product partnership, data analytics, executive communication, AI-assisted development

Preferred skills

Consumer startup founding/CTO experience, scaling apps to meaningful load, rewards/loyalty product experience

Technologies

React Native, cloud infrastructure, AI/ML tools

Responsibilities

Lead architecture and hands-on development across the app portfolio, partner with product leads on roadmap and feasibility, track retention and usage to prioritize engineering work, harden shared components to reduce launch costs, manage a small team of mobile and backend engineers, represent data apps at executive forums, raise engineering leverage through AI and shared platforms

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership scope

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