Tue, 29 Jul 2025
What is a Mobile Platform Engineer?
Most mobile developers never get the chance to touch platform engineering. These roles typically exist only at larger companies that have reached the scale where developer productivity becomes a bottleneck rather than feature delivery. Because platform engineering roles are still relatively rare, most developers don't really understand what the work involves or whether it might be right for them. I want to change that by sharing what I've learned from four years in the trenches as a mobile platform engineer.
