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Director, Mobile & Platform Engineering
SKIMSLos Angeles, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 4 Aug 2026
💰 $250,000/yr($200,000/yr – $250,000/yr)
About the role
Director, Mobile & Platform Engineering
Department: Technology
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Los Angeles HQ
Compensation: $200,000 - $250,000 / year
Description
SKIMS is a solutions-oriented brand creating the next generation of underwear, loungewear, shapewear, and essentials. We are setting new standards by delivering technically innovative, comfort-driven products with elevated design for everybody.
At the intersection of culture, innovation, and commerce, SKIMS is a global brand redefining modern apparel. Our teams are built on creativity, collaboration, and operational excellence, and we are committed to fostering an inclusive, high-performance environment where ambitious, curious, and values-driven individuals can do the best work of their careers.
As we continue to scale globally, our HQ teams play a critical role in shaping strategy, building world-class infrastructure, and driving sustainable growth across markets.
We’re looking for a hands-on, highly collaborative Director of Mobile & Middleware Engineering to lead two critical areas of our commerce technology stack: our cloud-based middleware platform and our native mobile application.
We’re looking for a hands-on, highly collaborative Director of Mobile & Middleware Engineering to lead two critical areas of our commerce technology stack: our cloud-based middleware platform and our native mobile application.
Reporting directly to the VP of Engineering, this leader will own the technical strategy, health, scalability, and delivery of our AWS-based middleware ecosystem while also overseeing the engineering team responsible for our Flutter mobile application.
The ideal candidate is comfortable operating at both the strategic and tactical levels. You should be able to set technical direction, develop strong engineering teams, partner closely with Product, Design, and other cross-functional leaders, and quickly step into complex technical situations when needed.
This role is particularly important in ensuring our platforms remain stable, resilient, and performant during high-traffic moments, including major product launches, sales, and other peak commerce events.
Key Responsibilities
Middleware & Platform Engineering
- Own the architecture, technical strategy, operational health, and ongoing evolution of our AWS-based middleware platform.
- Provide technical leadership across services built primarily with TypeScript and Node.js.
- Oversee deployment and infrastructure patterns using Serverless, ensuring services are repeatable, secure, scalable, and easy to operate.
- Ensure middleware services are highly available, observable, resilient, and capable of supporting significant traffic spikes during major launches, promotions, and other high-volume commerce events.
- Drive performance testing, capacity planning, caching strategies, failure recovery, and proactive remediation of scalability risks.
- Establish strong engineering standards around API design, asynchronous processing, data access, fault tolerance, retries, graceful degradation, and service reliability.
- Own integrations with the Shopify Storefront and Admin APIs, ensuring API usage is reliable, efficient, secure, and designed with platform limits and rate constraints in mind.
- Oversee CMS integrations with Sanity, including content modeling, validation, and efficient data retrieval using GROQ queries.
- Promote strong schema validation and data integrity practices using Zod across service boundaries, external integrations, and internal APIs.
- Establish and maintain automated testing standards using Jest and ts-jest, with a focus on meaningful unit, integration, and regression coverage.
- Drive strong observability and incident response practices using Sentry, including error monitoring, alerting, root-cause analysis, and long-term remediation.
- Partner with Infrastructure, Security, Product, Web, Mobile, QA, and Data teams to deliver dependable end-to-end commerce experiences.
- Maintain a high-quality, stable, and well-documented codebase while balancing technical debt reduction, architectural improvements, and the need to move quickly.
- Ensure teams can respond decisively to production issues, communicate clearly during incidents, and turn operational learnings into lasting platform improvements.
- Evaluate and evolve the technology stack as business needs change, while maintaining pragmatic standards for reliability, maintainability, security, and cost.
Mobile Engineering
- Provide engineering leadership and oversight for our mobile application built in Flutter and
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