Software Engineer, Mobile
Factory
San Francisco, CA · Posted November 10, 2026
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About the job
ABOUT FACTORY
Our mission is to create a world where software builds and improves itself.
We build the platform for self-improving software development, helping the world's largest enterprise engineering teams turn their organizations into autonomous software factories. Customers including Nvidia, Blackstone, Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), Palo Alto Networks, Adobe, and T-Mobile run Factory to ship code, review PRs, run tests, and deploy continuously - getting smarter with every cycle.
In 2026, we raised $200M at a $5B valuation, bringing our total funding to over $400M. We are backed by world-class investors and operators including Khosla Ventures, Sequoia, Blackstone, Ali Ghodsi (CEO of Databricks), and Frank Slootman (Former CEO of Snowflake).
ABOUT THE ROLE
We're looking for a Software Engineer, Mobile to help bring Factory's agent-native development experience to mobile. You'll build intuitive, reliable experiences that help engineers stay connected to their work wherever they are.
Working closely with engineering, product, and design, you'll turn complex workflows into mobile experiences that feel simple and responsive. You'll own features from early exploration through launch, with a focus on usability, performance, and quality.
WHAT YOU WILL DO AND ACHIEVE
- Build and ship mobile features that help engineers interact with Droid and stay informed about ongoing work.
- Partner with product and design to translate developer workflows into thoughtful mobile interfaces.
- Develop reliable integrations with Factory's backend services, handling real-time updates, network interruptions, and application state.
- Improve application performance, accessibility, and stability across supported devices.
- Build reusable components and automated tests that support a maintainable mobile codebase.
- Own features through release, monitor their performance, and use feedback to improve the experience.
- Contribute to technical decisions and help shape Factory's mobile engineering practices.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience shipping and maintaining production mobile applications.
- Strong proficiency in a mobile development stack and an understanding of platform conventions.
- Experience integrating APIs and managing asynchronous workflows, application state, and unreliable connectivity.
- A track record of building polished interfaces with attention to interaction design, accessibility, and performance.
- Experience testing, debugging, and releasing mobile software.
- Strong collaboration skills and the ability to take a feature from an ambiguous problem to a working product.
- Interest in developer tools, AI agents, and making complex technical workflows easier to use.
This is an in-office position (5 days/week) in San Francisco (walking distance to Caltrain)