Head of Data Apps Engineering
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 20, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 7, 2026.
Join Attain as the Head of Data Apps Engineering, where you'll lead the engineering side of our consumer mobile app portfolio. This player-coach role involves hands-on development, managing a small team of engineers, and representing the data apps business at the executive level. You'll work closely with the Head of Product and drive the technical direction for our apps.
Missions
- Lead the architecture and hands-on development across the app portfolio, ensuring high-quality code and technical direction.
- Manage a small team of mobile and backend engineers, providing line management, code review, and career development.
- Represent the data apps business at the executive level, communicating the consumer perspective and driving strategic decisions.
Profil recherché
- You think like a product engineer: you'd rather pressure-test an idea with your product counterpart before a line of code is written than build the wrong thing beautifully- You instinctively seek to collaborate with your Product counterpart to ship great products
- You've built and scaled a consumer app with real ownership (as a founder, CTO, founding engineer, or the technical lead who was accountable for the outcome), and you can speak to what worked and what didn't from firsthand experience
- You're credible in an executive room: you can represent a business line to a leadership team, translate consumer strategy for an ad-tech-native audience, and hold your ground on what it takes to build for consumers
- You read retention and engagement data across a portfolio of products fluently, and you use it to prioritize with your Product counterpart; you don't wait to be handed a metrics brief before you know which app or feature needs attention
- You get energy from leverage: shared platforms, reusable components, and AI-assisted development that let a five-person team ship like a fifteen-person one
- You've experienced consumer scale (real production load, real users, real growth curves) and know which scaling problems to solve now versus earn later
- You're a backend-heavy full-stack engineer who is genuinely fluent across the stack, including React Native, and you still love being in the weeds
- You've held senior scope before and are excited to lead your team through hands-on building: you want a small, focused team and a big mandate, not a big org
- At Attain, we are passionate about finding people to continuously help us grow our organization. We encourage you to apply, even if your experience doesn't match every detail of the job description. If we don't see something that immediately fits, we will keep your resume on file for future opportunities
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with several years building consumer-facing mobile products
- Founder, CTO, VP Engineering, or founding-engineer experience at a consumer startup, or equivalent demonstrated ownership of a consumer product's technical outcomes
- Track record taking a consumer app from zero to meaningful scale (users, load, or revenue)
- Deep backend expertise (APIs, data pipelines, cloud infrastructure) plus production React Native or comparable cross-platform mobile experience
- Comfortable presenting to and working with executive stakeholders
- Experience managing small engineering teams directly (line management; this is not a manager-of-managers role)
- Rewards/loyalty or data product experience is a strong plus