Principal Software Engineer

Principal Mobile Software Engineer (P5)

Who We Are

Solera is a global leader in data and software services, transforming every touchpoint of the vehicle lifecycle into a connected digital experience. Solera processes over 300 million digital transactions annually for approximately 235,000 partners and customers in more than 90 countries. Our teams work on mission‑critical platforms that demand reliability, scalability, and thoughtful evolution of complex systems.

JOB SUMMARY

We’re looking for a hands-on Principal Mobile Software Engineer (P5) who will lead the architecture, development, modernization, and delivery of enterprise-grade mobile platforms across iOS and Android. This role is focused on building reliable, scalable, secure, and high-performing mobile experiences while using AI-driven development practices to accelerate engineering velocity, improve quality, and unlock intelligent mobile capabilities.

This role is ideal for a senior technologist who:

Leads complete, high-impact mobile initiatives end-to-end across discovery, architecture, implementation, launch, and continuous improvement

Designs and builds cross-platform mobile solutions spanning iOS, Android, and shared mobile platform capabilities

Applies AI-driven development practices, AI-assisted engineering tools, and intelligent mobile workflows to improve delivery speed and product quality

Makes pragmatic architectural decisions that balance native platform excellence, cross-platform reuse, performance, security, maintainability, and time-to-market

Partners effectively with product, design, architecture, backend, security, QA, DevOps/SRE, and business stakeholders to turn ambiguous goals into mobile outcomes

Mentors mobile engineers and raises the technical standard through platform ownership, code review, architecture guidance, and hands-on implementation

You will operate with broad autonomy, lead complete mobile initiatives without requiring constant direction, influence mobile platform direction across teams, and be known as someone who ships, unblocks others, aligns stakeholders, and makes things happen.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Build, Ship, and Own Mobile Platforms

• Write production-quality mobile code regularly across iOS, Android, shared platform libraries, and mobile integration layers

• Own and deliver high-impact mobile features, platform capabilities, and system improvements end-to-end

• Lead modernization of legacy mobile applications, incrementally migrating toward modular, maintainable, testable, and scalable mobile architectures

• Design and evolve mobile platform foundations, including app architecture, shared components, design systems, SDKs, offline capabilities, authentication flows, telemetry, and release infrastructure

• Translate ambiguous business and user requirements into reliable, intuitive, and performant mobile experiences

• Identify mobile technical risks early, including app performance, crash rates, app store constraints, OS fragmentation, security, privacy, offline behavior, and API reliability

• Run complete project workstreams independently, including technical discovery, solution design, delivery planning, execution tracking, launch readiness, app store release coordination, and post-launch follow-through

AI-Driven Mobile Development & Intelligent Experiences

• Lead the adoption of AI-driven development practices for mobile engineering, including AI-assisted design, coding, refactoring, test generation, debugging, documentation, and code review workflows

• Design and implement intelligent mobile experiences that responsibly leverage LLMs, AI services, on-device intelligence, contextual assistance, automation, and personalization where appropriate

• Integrate mobile applications with AI-enabled backend services, APIs, orchestration layers, and data sources

• Evaluate when intelligence should run on-device, at the edge, or in cloud services based on latency, privacy, cost, reliability, and user experience

• Establish guardrails for AI-assisted mobile engineering, including prompt patterns, generated-code review standards, test expectations, security review, privacy controls, and quality gates

• Implement hallucination mitigation and validation strategies for AI-powered mobile features, including grounding, structured outputs, user confirmation, fallback states, and telemetry-driven evaluation

• Design monitoring and feedback loops for AI-enabled mobile behavior in production

• Ensure AI-enabled mobile capabilities meet security, privacy, compliance, accessibility, and user trust requirements

Mobile Technical Leadership & Architecture

• Set and evolve mobile architecture standards through hands-on implementation

• Guide platform decisions across native iOS, native Android, cross-platform frameworks, shared libraries, backend integration, data synchronization, security, and observability

• Make principled tradeoffs between native platform depth, cross-platform reuse, delivery speed, scalability, performance, correctness, and long-term maintainability

• Act as a technical escalation point for challenging mobile problems, including performance, memory, battery usage, offline-first behavior, crash stability, OS compatibility, release quality, and integration reliability

• Influence technical direction across multiple teams without becoming a bottleneck

• Provide full technical leadership for projects by coordinating architecture, engineering execution, dependency management, risk mitigation, mobile release planning, and cross-team alignment

• Communicate clearly with product owners, UX/design, engineering leaders, backend teams, security, DevOps/SRE, QA, support, and business stakeholders to keep delivery aligned with business outcomes

AI-Assisted Mobile Engineering & Developer Productivity

• Leverage AI-powered development tools such as GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, and mobile-specific automation to accelerate high-quality delivery

• Establish best practices and guardrails for safe, high-quality AI-assisted mobile coding

• Use AI tools for mobile solution design, architecture analysis, refactoring, test generation, debugging, system comprehension, documentation, and release readiness

• Improve developer productivity through reusable mobile components, shared architecture patterns, CI/CD automation, test automation, build optimization, and platform tooling

• Help teams adopt modern mobile workflows that improve velocity while maintaining engineering rigor, security, accessibility, and release quality

Mentorship & Team Elevation

• Mentor mobile engineers through pairing, code reviews, architecture reviews, and design discussions

• Help senior mobile engineers grow into broader technical leadership roles

• Coach engineers on modern mobile architecture, cross-platform development, AI-aware engineering practices, quality engineering, observability, and secure development

• Foster a culture of continuous learning, ownership, customer empathy, and technical excellence

• Lead by example with clear communication, humility, accountability, and hands-on technical contribution

Mobile Execution, Quality & Operations

• Build and maintain enterprise mobile applications using modern native and/or cross-platform frameworks

• Design and implement integrations with RESTful APIs, GraphQL services, event-driven workflows, identity providers, analytics platforms, and mobile backend services

• Optimize mobile applications for performance, memory usage, battery life, network efficiency, offline behavior, accessibility, localization, and reliability

• Partner with DevOps/SRE and QA to ensure strong mobile CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, build signing, release automation, observability, crash reporting, and safe deployments

• Own release quality across TestFlight, Google Play testing tracks, App Store, and Google Play production releases

• Participate fully in the SDLC: design, coding, testing,