Founding Mobile Engineer

London, UK

Salary: £120,000 - £140,000

Equity: 0.5-1%

In-person, with flexible remote days

European visa sponsorship available

About Aurora

Aurora is a digital-first lifestyle management platform built for the world's highest-performing individuals and organizations. Our members include tier-1 founders, executives, athletes, and families who delegate complex, ongoing needs across travel, dining, experiences, luxury purchases, and health.

The product is mobile-first, conversational, proactive, and available 24/7 globally. Members use Aurora multiple times per day, often for time-sensitive, high-stakes decisions. As a result, the backend is mission-critical: orchestration, data quality, reliability, and speed directly determine the quality of the member experience. We benefit from high-frequency, conversational feedback, which we use to continuously refine and optimize the system.

We have exceptional early traction: 51% DAU, 95% WAU, and transaction volume and member spend that have already outperformed industry benchmarks by 5× within our first three months.

Aurora is backed and chaired by Alex Macdonald, the most successful founder in this category. His insight and network provide a meaningful advantage as we scale.

So far, we've:

• Raised $5M from experienced operators and tier-1 investors
• Built a product with industry leading engagement from paying customers
• Collected a large, proprietary set of user context (calendars, preferences, health signals) that powers proactive features
  
  

We're now expanding the engineering team as we scale the product and the member base.

We have an in-person culture, building Aurora from our offices in London, New York, and Los Angeles.

Our entire engineering team works in person out of our London office in Belgravia.

We also offer flexible remote days.

The role

We're hiring a Founding Mobile Engineer (Flutter) to work closely with the CTO and Product Manager on Aurora's mobile app - a next-generation lifestyle operating system.

You'll place a conversational, daily-use product in the hands of the world's most discerning, high-impact individuals, influencing and optimizing their global lifestyle.

This is a hands-on role. You'll own and ship core parts of the app end-to-end, from implementation to release. You'll have real influence over technical decisions, standards, and how the product evolves.

Performance, reliability, and polish are critical. Small UX issues are noticeable, and fixing them matters.

We're building Aurora to be multi-modal and voice first - you'll have a part to play in developing Aurora across devices, so all members of the org (partners, advisors, co-execs, and assistants) can use Aurora simultaneously.

You'll report directly to the CTO. Over time, this role can grow into a more senior position as the team scales.

Requirements

What you'll do

• Build and ship core mobile features in Flutter
• Work closely with product and design on implementation details
• Own performance, stability, and user experience on mobile
• Integrate with backend APIs and third-party services
• Help define and maintain engineering standards for the mobile app
  
  

What we're looking for

Experience

• 5+ years building mobile applications
• 3+ years of production experience with Flutter
  
  

Product and UI quality

• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to implement clean, consistent, user-friendly interfaces
• Care about how the app feels in daily use, not just whether it works
  
  

Responsiveness and performance

• Experience building apps that work well across screen sizes and devices
• Comfortable profiling and improving Flutter performance
• Experience with smooth animations, fast startup times, and efficient resource usage
  
  

Integration and reliability

• Experience working with backend APIs
• Comfortable integrating third-party services
• Careful, structured approach to testing and debugging
  
  

Collaboration

• Able to work closely with product, design, and backend engineers
• Clear communicator, especially around trade-offs and constraints
• A want to be in-person, near the customer
  
  

Benefits

• $2,000 Tech & Education budget
• Complimentary Oura ring or Whoop
• Complimentary longevity testing subscription
• Lifestyle perks, events, and access opportunities
• Full health benefits; 90% coverage, including full dental & vision
• Complimentary dinners and evening transport
• 15 Flexible remote days per year