Lead Mobile Engineer

About Us

Our mission is to electrify the world’s homes for healthy and sustainable living. Residential electrification is an extraordinary decarbonization opportunity - 145 million homes in the United States account for 20% of our climate emissions. But today, electrification is painful - it’s too complicated, time consuming, and expensive. So we’re building a new experience for homeowners, contractors, and utilities. Zero bridges the gap between the digital and the physical with a frictionless experience that makes electrification fast, easy, and affordable. Join our team to build a world class consumer experience that just so happens to electrify America. 

About the Role & Your Impact

This is an exciting opportunity to join an early stage company of talented engineers and designers, led by seasoned climate tech veterans. At Zero, Lead Engineers are individual contributors that report to the Head of Product and Engineering, as well as managers for 3 other engineers working in the same product area. We work in small teams (1 designer and 1-2 programmers) in six-week cycles to take loosely defined projects and deliver new features. Lead Engineers are given broad latitude to make product-level design decisions and expected to operate effectively with minimal oversight. We are relentlessly focused on sustainable productivity. You should expect long stretches of deep work, no standing meetings, effective in person collaboration with stakeholders, direct reports, and peers, as well as flexibility around your personal life.

Our Lead Mobile Engineer will be responsible for the redesign of our homeowner app, as well as the design of future mobile applications that are currently early concepts. Our homeowner app enables users to get a design and quote for HVAC projects without having a sales visit from a contractor. The app is our most important digital touchpoint with homeowners, so our Lead Mobile Engineer will play a critical role in defining the future customer experience at Zero. Currently, the app is built fully native using SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose, and we are considering a variety of technical strategies moving forward.

What You Bring

You are a generalist with discerning standards for code quality and architecture. Whether designing new features, writing modular code, performance testing applications, or operating production systems, you want to own projects from beginning to end. You have at least 5 years of professional software engineering experience developing mobile applications and at least 8 years of professional software engineering experience in general. You should have meaningful experience with native iOS and Android application development, as well as informed opinions about React Native and Capacitor/Cordova.

You are a detail-oriented systems thinker. You want to own the whole product, not just isolated features. You always anchor your work on user needs and seek to understand how users operate in a larger context.  You may not have experience in climate tech or building science, but you are eager to dive into the messy world of residential electrification.    

You have an eye for elegance - the confluence of beauty, effectiveness, and simplicity - and a proven track record of building elegant digital experiences from the ground up. You value functional beauty in the physical world and are excited to build software that will create healthy, comfortable, and sustainable living spaces for our customers.

You are a pragmatic team player. You know that products only matter if they ship. You are prepared to collaborate with product designers and make tradeoffs to deliver projects within a fixed time box. You want lots of freedom, but you know that comes with the responsibility to communicate and deliver.

You are enthusiastic about in-person work. You want to know your users by name and see them smile when they use your designs. You live within 50 miles of Denver, CO or are willing to relocate.

• Experience with a wide range of mobile technologies
• Experience with camera framework
• Experience writing REST APIs
• Experience with computer vision
• Experience at early-stage startups and/or fast-growing environments
• Strong math background or practical data science experience
• Experience in climate tech

Zero Homes is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible experience for all candidates. We encourage you to apply even if you believe that you do not meet all of the above criteria!