Lead Engineer - Mobile & Full-Stack (Remote)

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 Leadership  Own the architecture, quality, and delivery of the React Native mobile application and React JS web surfaces across iOS and Android  Define and enforce coding standards, patterns, and best practices across mobile and full-stack development Drive the adoption of an A.I. first engineering mindset  Drive technical roadmap decisions and align them with product goals, timelines, and the broader engineering organization  Provide technical expertise in architecture, design, testing, and implementation — spanning native UI through BFF to backend API contracts and LLM integration patterns  Lead in-depth code reviews and conduct root cause analysis of critical production issues  Actively engage in and may influence the direction of industry groups or open-source communities  Delivery & Execution   Own end-to-end delivery of mobile and web features from technical scoping through App Store / Play Store release and production monitoring  Break down complex requirements into actionable engineering tasks, milestones, and clear ownership across a distributed team  Identify and proactively mitigate technical risk throughout the development lifecycle  Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines and release management processes for both platforms  Manage the technical complexity of the webview bridge between the native app and D2C web experience — a critical integration point for our lease application flow  Develop and deploy solutions with performance, security, and accessibility in mind from the start  Team & Collaboration   Lead and mentor a geographically distributed team across two hubs (Americas and India), fostering strong engineering culture and clear accountability across time zones  Work collaboratively with technical and business team members (Product, Design, QA, Backend) to develop and maintain business solutions following Agile principles  Initiate and lead efforts toward organizational goals; be influential in building a dynamic, productive engineering organization and continuously improving practices  Participate in hiring — reviewing resumes, conducting technical interviews, and evaluating candidates; proven experience building and mentoring world-class engineering teams  Set clear expectations for a mix of full-time employees and contractors, raising the technical bar across all contributors  Ensure software quality engineering by keeping engineers current on best practices, automated testing, alerting, and proactive production support  YOU'LL BRING: Required Experience with A.I. first engineering and usage of Claude, Co-Pilot, and other tools  Strong understanding of native iOS (Swift / Obj-C) and Android (Kotlin / Java) sufficient to bridge gaps and work with native modules  Proven full-stack capability — comfortable owning or collaborating on BFF / API layers, not just the mobile UI  Extensive experience with cross-browser and cross-platform development including mobile and responsive UI  Experience with state management (Redux, Zustand, Recoil, or equivalent), REST APIs, GraphQL, and mobile-specific data-fetching patterns  Proven track record shipping production apps to the App Store and Google Play  Experience developing and architecting high-transaction, high-throughput systems  Demonstrated ability to lead distributed, contractor-heavy teams across time zones with strong personal accountability  Excellent problem-solving skills; meticulous, methodical, and able to translate complex business requirements into simple software solutions  Experience with CI/CD, Agile methodologies, and open-source technologies  A minimum of 10 years of software development experience, with at least 5 years focused on mobile (React Native) and full-stack development   Deep expertise in React Native, React JS, TypeScript / JavaScript, and Node.js  AI‑enabled tools are already part of how work gets done across our organization, and their use will continue to expand over time. 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