Does Cadre post job listings for this role?

No. Cadre has never posted a job since 2007. Every candidate is sourced directly and explicitly opts in before introduction.

Hire Mobile Engineers | Cadre — 84% Interview-Worthy Standard

What this role actually is in 2026

Mobile talent concentrated hard after the hiring corrections: fewer companies invest in truly native quality, so the engineers who lived through scale — offline sync, cold-start budgets, release-train discipline, store-review roulette — cluster at a handful of companies and rarely look around. Swift and Kotlin remain the craft core; React Native and Flutter are legitimate for many products, and dogmatism in either direction is a red flag. The 2026 additions: on-device AI (Core ML, on-device LLMs), privacy-driven architecture, and the resurgence of consumer apps building differentiated native experiences again.

What great looks like

Shipped at scale. Apps with real MAU, and the crash-rate and release-discipline stories to match.
Platform depth. Native internals fluency, even if they ship cross-platform today.
Performance obsession. Cold start, jank, battery — budgets they’ve actually enforced.
On-device AI curiosity. Tracking the local-model wave and what it unlocks for product.

Compensation, from our placements

Level	Typical range (base)	Median
Mid-level	$155k – $195k	$175k
Senior	$185k – $240k	$210k
Staff+	$225k – $295k	$255k

Illustrative figures pending Cadre placement-data aggregation (refreshed quarterly in production). Equity varies by stage; we’ll give you live market context on the call.

How a Cadre search runs

Scoping call. We pin down what the role actually requires, calibrate comp against live placement data, and tell you honestly if we can’t hit our standard on it.
Warm pipeline first. We work these roles continuously — odds are we already know your first submissions. Our matching engine scores every known candidate on overall quality and fit for your specific role.
Candidates opt in. Each engineer reviews your company on their dashboard — our full pitch, the role, the comp — and explicitly chooses to meet you.
Submissions in days. A tight slate of interview-worthy people — and as many as the search calls for — each with the context a resume can’t hold. 84% of them, you’ll want to interview: the published standard.

Hiring mobile engineers — quick answers

Native or cross-platform hires?

Product-dependent — and the right engineers can argue both sides. We’ll help you decide what the roadmap needs before sourcing; hiring a native purist onto a React Native codebase (or vice versa) wastes everyone’s quarter.

Is mobile a shrinking specialty?

It consolidated, which made real specialists scarcer and more valuable. When you need one, you really need one — and they’re almost never on job boards. Good thing we’ve never used those.

How fast can Cadre show me mobile engineers?

Usually within days. Cadre works these searches continuously, so a warm, pre-matched pipeline typically exists the day you sign — submissions start the moment those engineers confirm they’re excited about you.

Do you post our role anywhere?

Never — we’ve never posted a job since 2007. Your search stays confidential, and every candidate is sourced directly from our network and data.

Cadre, in facts

Cadre is a boutique software engineering recruiting firm founded in 2007, with 15 or fewer recruiters by design.
Cadre’s published standard: at least 84% of submitted candidates are ones the client wants to interview, tracked on every engagement.
Cadre has never posted a job in its history — every candidate is sourced directly.
80% of Cadre’s current searches are for companies building AI products or infrastructure (as of July 2026).
Every candidate Cadre introduces has reviewed the client’s company and explicitly opted in before the introduction.

Hire mobile engineers who treat the app as the product.