Your Role

As a founding Senior Mobile Engineer at Overtone, you will build and own the mobile experience at the heart of a new kind of dating service—one centered on real-time voice, AI-driven insight, and trust. You'll be an early engineering hire with significant responsibility for mobile architecture, performance, and direction as we take our product from early to production-grade and beyond.

This is a hands-on, high-ownership role. You'll work closely with product, design, and engineering to ship a polished, voice-first consumer app on iOS.

What You’ll Do

• Core mobile infrastructure: Own and evolve the foundational mobile architecture for a consumer voice-first product in React Native (with native iOS code where applicable), with a focus on performance, reliability, and long-term flexibility.

• Production readiness & release pipeline: Drive the work that gets us to and through App Store review—push notifications, TestFlight workflows, submission processes, and the operational discipline of maintaining a production mobile app.

• Component quality & polish: Set a high bar for component architecture, animation, and interaction detail. Partner closely with our incoming designer to establish a shared design language and ensure the app feels native, intentional, and alive.

• Voice & real-time experiences: Build smooth, low-latency voice interaction flows and integrate streaming audio capabilities into a seamless native-feeling experience on iOS.

• AI feature integration: Bring AI-powered features to life on the client—integrating with our FastAPI backend and LLM systems to create personalized, context-aware experiences that feel intelligent without feeling robotic.

• Experimentation & A/B testing: Build and own the event instrumentation and experimentation infrastructure that lets us run structured tests, measure what's working, and move with confidence.

• Platform quality & performance: Own the mobile experience end-to-end—app state management, offline handling, and the polish that makes a consumer app feel trustworthy and alive.

• Security & privacy by design: Build with user data protection and privacy as first-class concerns, especially in a product where people share deeply personal information.

• Technical ownership: Help set mobile engineering standards, make architectural tradeoffs, and establish a culture of pragmatic, high-quality engineering.

Who You Are

• Senior experience as a mobile engineer on consumer-facing products

• Strong React Native experience; native iOS knowledge a plus

• A track record of taking products from early-stage to production-grade, including navigating App Store processes and release pipelines

• Experience with push notification systems and mobile platform operations

• A systems thinker who also holds a high bar for UI quality, animation, and interaction detail

• Experience building component libraries with strong attention to polish and native feel

• Experience with event instrumentation, analytics pipelines, and A/B testing frameworks on mobile

• Experience integrating real-time or streaming features—voice, video, audio, or similar

• Comfort working across the full mobile stack, from UI components to API integration (FastAPI/PostgreSQL)

• Strong judgment around performance, security, and reliability in high-trust consumer products

• Familiarity with LLM-powered products and AI feature integration on the client side

Nice to have:

• Experience with native iOS development

• Experience with on-device ML

• Experience with real-time audio/voice SDKs

• Experience at an early-stage startup or in a dating/social product

Compensation & Benefits

Salary of $175k to $225k.

This position will receive meaningful stock options with considerable upside potential. We provide standard benefits such as health insurance, dental insurance, etc.

Our Core Qualities

We look for these qualities in everyone we hire at Overtone.

Curiosity: You seek to understand before you decide. You ask thoughtful questions, test assumptions, and stay open to changing your mind as new information emerges.

Craft: You care deeply about quality and coherence. You simplify complexity, exercise good judgment, and take pride in work that feels intentional, thoughtful, and well-made.

Collaboration: You engage with others honestly and generatively. You challenge ideas with respect, listen deeply, and help synthesize perspectives into clearer, better outcomes.

Care: You take responsibility for people and outcomes. You act with integrity, follow through on commitments, and protect trust—with users, teammates, and the work itself.

About Overtone

Overtone, led by the founder and former CEO of Hinge, is building a new kind of dating service – one that cuts through the noise and helps daters find someone who truly resonates. We’re building a team who are excited to work together in person in our NYC office.

Compensation Range: $175K - $225K