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TailscaleTailscaleUnited States

Mobile Platform Developer

Develop and maintain Tailscale's iOS and Android client applications with a focus on mobile VPN infrastructure. Contribute to shared client code in Swift, Kotlin, and Go while supporting other platforms. Requires 5+ years software development experience and networking knowledge.

163k – 204k
Remote5+ YOEMobile Engineering

About the role

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop the Tailscale product, contributing to client code and backend services. The client code is a mix of modern Swift, Kotlin and Go.
  • Bring a special focus on our mobile platforms, iOS and Android, while contributing to common code that supports macOS, Windows and other core client platforms.
  • iOS and Android development: Proficiency in Swift, SwiftUI, and/or Kotlin.
  • Unit and integration test development and maintenance.
  • Cross-target code sharing.
  • Familiarity with mobile VPN infrastructure.
  • Providing support for the latest Apple and Android platform features while maintaining compatibility with a reasonable subset of older systems.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in software development.
  • Strong understanding of software development principles, capabilities, and limitations of mobile platforms.
  • Experience with general networking concepts - DNS, VPNs, IP Networking, routing, etc.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to give and process constructive feedback, as well as work independently.
  • Flexibility to adjust to the dynamic nature of a startup.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Proficiency in Go is desirable.
  • Prior Go expertise is not a requirement.

Skills

SwiftSwiftUIKotlinGoiOSAndroidVpnDNSIp NetworkingUnit TestingIntegration Testing

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