Lead Software Engineer, Mobile

Overview

Impact the MomentAt McGraw Hill, we are dedicated to delivering digital learning experiences that transform education for learners and educators. Our focus is on creating seamless, impactful products that truly benefit our users while supporting growth and collaboration across teams. We foster a culture that values innovation, teamwork, and a balance between career growth and personal well-being.

 

Your impact on the team

As a Lead Mobile Engineer on Sharpen, you will provide technical leadership for a team building one of McGraw Hillʼs most innovative and fast-growing products: a multi-platform learning experience spanning native mobile apps and AI-enabled learning capabilities. Reporting to the Director of Engineering, you will help shape mobile architecture, strengthen engineering practices, mentor developers, and ensure the delivery of reliable, scalable, user-centered experiences for learners. 

 

This is a remote position open to applicants authorized to work for any employer within the United States.

 

What You'll Do:

• Lead the design, development, and delivery of high-quality native mobile experiences for iOS and Android.
• Define and drive technical direction for mobile architecture, performance, reliability, accessibility, and maintainability.
• Mentor and support mobile engineers through code reviews, design discussions, pairing, and technical coaching.
• Partner with product, design, QA, data, and platform teams to translate learning goals into polished mobile features.
• Promote engineering best practices, including automated testing, CI/CD, observability, release management, and secure development.
• Evaluate tradeoffs, identify technical risks, and guide pragmatic decisions that balance speed, quality, and long-term scalability.
• Contribute hands-on to critical features, architecture improvements, debugging, and production support.
• Collaborate effectively across distributed teams and communicate technical plans, progress, and outcomes to stakeholders. 

 

What You Bring:

• Passion for using technology to improve educational outcomes.
• 8+ years of software development experience, including significant hands-on experience building production mobile applications.
• Proven technical leadership experience, including leading complex mobile initiatives and mentoring engineers in a collaborative, agile environment.
• Deep mobile engineering expertise, including native iOS and/or Android development, Swift, Kotlin, mobile architecture patterns, performance tuning, and app store release practices.
• Experience building scalable, product-focused tools, platforms, or applications used by meaningful customer audiences.
• Comfort working with APIs, backend services, authentication, analytics, experimentation, and cloud connected mobile systems.
• Experience operating in a SOX- and/or SOC 2-compliant environment, or a strong understanding of secure, compliant engineering practices.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with experience working across functions and distributed teams. Commitment to innovation, quality, accessibility, and user-centered development.

 

Preferred Experience & Skills:

• Experience in EdTech or with systems that support digital learning.
• Experience with AI-enabled learning experiences, personalization, or automation in software development workflows.
• Familiarity with cross-platform frameworks, shared mobile libraries, or mobile design systems.
• Experience improving mobile CI/CD pipelines, test automation, crash monitoring, or release health metrics. 

 

Why McGraw Hill?

There has never been a better time to join McGraw Hill. In our culture of curiosity and innovation, you will be able to own your growth and develop as we do.

The pay range for this position is between $124,300 - $185,000 annually. However, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location.  Additionally, a full range of medical and/or other benefits may be provided, depending on the position offered. Click here to learn more about our benefit offerings. 

 

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