What is a Mobile Engineer?
A Mobile Engineer at Poshmark owns the end-to-end experience of our iOS and Android apps that millions of community members use to browse, buy, and sell every day. You translate product strategy into performant, reliable, and beautiful mobile experiences, balancing feature velocity, quality, and scalability. Your code directly shapes core surfaces like the home feed, search & discovery, listing flow, checkout, notifications, and social features (e.g., follows, shares, comments).
This role is critical because the mobile app is Poshmark’s primary customer touchpoint and revenue driver. You will work closely with Product, Design, Data, and Backend teams to deliver features, optimize conversion funnels, and maintain a seamless, social commerce experience. Expect to contribute to clean architecture, offline readiness, robust analytics, and release health—areas where excellence translates into measurable business impact.
You’ll find this role compelling if you enjoy turning ambiguous customer needs into pragmatic technical solutions, collaborating across disciplines, and operating with ownership. It’s hands-on, high-visibility work: shipping well-architected Kotlin/Swift code, improving performance, and raising the bar for our app quality and team practices.
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Compress a string with run-length encoding and return the shorter of the compressed or original string.
Tests influence without authority: aligning stakeholders through data, empathy, and ownership to drive a decision and measurable outcome.
Share a time you owned a high-stakes RAG pipeline decision and acted quickly amid uncertainty.
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Getting Ready for Your Interviews
Your preparation should focus on three pillars: coding fluency in the platform language, mobile-specific system design, and practical product thinking. You will face a mix of LeetCode-style problems (often easy-to-medium), architecture discussions (Clean Architecture, SOLID, MVVM/MVI), and behavioral signals around collaboration and ownership. Prepare to explain trade-offs, show pragmatic judgment, and communicate clearly under time constraints.
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Role-related Knowledge (Technical/Domain Skills) – Interviewers assess your command of the mobile stack (Android/iOS), including language fluency (Kotlin/Swift, occasionally Objective‑C), lifecycle mastery, networking, persistence, and concurrency. Demonstrate understanding through code, concrete examples from shipped features, and clear articulation of architecture choices and best practices.
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Problem-Solving Ability (How you approach challenges) – Expect straightforward algorithmic prompts (strings, arrays, parsing) and debugging scenarios tied to mobile behaviors (lifecycle, threading, memory). Show your process: ask clarifying questions, state assumptions, outline trade-offs, implement cleanly, and validate with tests and edge cases.
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Leadership (Influence without authority) – Even as an IC, you will influence design decisions, mentor peers, and improve team practices (code reviews, CI/CD, testing). Interviewers look for calm prioritization, data-driven decision-making, and a bias for action when requirements are ambiguous or evolving.
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Culture Fit (Collaboration, communication, ambiguity) – Poshmark values a community-first mindset and ownership. Show empathy for users, align with product goals, and demonstrate how you adapt, communicate proactively, and handle feedback—even when opinions differ.
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Interview Process Overview
You can expect a focused, fast-moving process that emphasizes practical skills over trick questions. The cadence typically starts with a recruiter conversation, followed by a hands-on technical screen, and culminates in a collaborative onsite (virtual or in-person). The tone is professional and pragmatic: interviewers aim to simulate how you would work day-to-day on our codebase and with our teams.
Rigor is calibrated to the role level. Coding assessments skew towards clear, correct solutions in the platform language with strong communication. Architecture conversations prioritize clean boundaries, testability, and maintainability, while behavioral interviews probe for ownership, collaboration, and resilience. Expect a respectful pace, but be ready to drive clarity and confirm expectations—doing so signals seniority.
This timeline illustrates the typical flow from recruiter screen to technical assessment and a consolidated onsite loop. Use it to plan your prep energy: practice language-specific coding ahead of the screen, then allocate time for architecture and behavioral depth before the onsite. Between stages, confirm logistics, language expectations, and any pre-work to avoid surprises.
