Lead Engineer - Mobile & Full-Stack

Progressive Leasing is a leading provider of in-store and e-commerce lease-to-own solutions. With more than 20 years in FinTech, we’ve grown from start-up to industry leader by innovating, simplifying, and valuing people. We are a subsidiary of PROG Holdings (NYSE: PRG), a FinTech holding company with three business segments: Progressive Leasing, Purchasing Power (a leading employee purchase program for consumer products and services using payroll deduction), and Four, a Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) platform.We are currently hiring a Lead Engineer - Mobile & Full-Stack (Remote)to help grow our company and ensure our mission is achieved!This role is a work from home position and can be performed remotely anywhere in the continental US or in our corporate office in Draper, Utah. Employee Value Proposition (EVP): PROG is dedicated to providing people with opportunity; opportunity for inclusive collaboration, opportunity for innovation, and opportunity for development.WE ARE: A sales organization that is dedicated to developing and executing winning sales and marketing strategies in a fun and engaging environment. We provide our employees with challenging opportunities where passion, tenacity, innovation and diligence are rewarded. We want your passion, your creativity and your mastery in rallying support for the ideas that will advance our initiatives. With your broad strategic expertise, you will plan, develop and implement highly effective sales, marketing and operational strategies, solutions and initiatives to drive market share and sell-through for our clients.YOU ARE: A software professional who leads with technical depth and delivers solutions for complex, large-scale business problems. You are equally at home in a React Native codebase, designing a BFF architecture, and mentoring engineers across time zones. You create and deliver customized experiences for customers across all channels — mobile app, webview, and website.YOUR DAY-TO-DAY:Technical LeadershipOwn the architecture, quality, and delivery of the React Native mobile application and React JS web surfaces across iOS and AndroidDefine and enforce coding standards, patterns, and best practices across mobile and full-stack developmentDrive the adoption of an A.I. first engineering mindsetDrive technical roadmap decisions and align them with product goals, timelines, and the broader engineering organizationProvide technical expertise in architecture, design, testing, and implementation — spanning native UI through BFF to backend API contracts and LLM integration patternsLead in-depth code reviews and conduct root cause analysis of critical production issuesActively engage in and may influence the direction of industry groups or open-source communitiesDelivery & ExecutionOwn end-to-end delivery of mobile and web features from technical scoping through App Store / Play Store release and production monitoringBreak down complex requirements into actionable engineering tasks, milestones, and clear ownership across a distributed teamIdentify and proactively mitigate technical risk throughout the development lifecycleMaintain and improve CI/CD pipelines and release management processes for both platformsManage the technical complexity of the webview bridge between the native app and D2C web experience — a critical integration point for our lease application flowDevelop and deploy solutions with performance, security, and accessibility in mind from the startTeam & CollaborationLead and mentor a geographically distributed team across two hubs (Americas and India), fostering strong engineering culture and clear accountability across time zonesWork collaboratively with technical and business team members (Product, Design, QA, Backend) to develop and maintain business solutions following Agile principlesInitiate and lead efforts toward organizational goals; be influential in building a dynamic, productive engineering organization and continuously improving practicesParticipate in hiring — reviewing resumes, conducting technical interviews, and evaluating candidates; proven experience building and mentoring world-class engineering teamsSet clear expectations for a mix of full-time employees and contractors, raising the technical bar across all contributorsEnsure software quality engineering by keeping engineers current on best practices, automated testing, alerting, and proactive production supportYOU'LL BRING:RequiredExperience with A.I. first engineering and usage of Claude, Co-Pilot, and other toolsStrong understanding of native iOS (Swift / Obj-C) and Android (Kotlin / Java) sufficient to bridge gaps and work with native modulesProven full-stack capability — comfortable owning or collaborating on BFF / API layers, not just the mobile UIExtensive experience with cross-browser and cross-platform development including mobile and responsive UIExperience with state management (Redux, Zustand, Recoil, or equivalent), REST APIs, GraphQL, and mobile-specific data-fetch