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# Head of Apps Engineering, Enterprise at Attain

- **Company:** Attain
- **Location:** Chicago, IL / Redwood City, CA
- **Posted:** 2026-09-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/attain/jobs/6199651004

## Job description

## About Attain

Built for consumers and companies, alike. In a world driven by data, we believe consumers and businesses can coexist. Our founders had a vision to empower consumers to leverage their greatest asset—their data—in exchange for modern financial services. Built with this vision in mind, our platform allows consumers to access savings tools, earned wages and rewards without cost or hidden fees. In exchange, they give permission to use their real-time data for research, insights and targeted advertising.

At Attain, your contribution will help us build a more equitable and efficient data sharing ecosystem—whether helping consumers access modern financial services or businesses leverage data to achieve better outcomes. You'll have the opportunity to work directly with hands-on leaders and mission-driven individuals everyday.

## About the role

Attain's consumer mobile apps are the front door of our data ecosystem: they deliver real value to consumers, and the permissioned data they generate powers everything our enterprise platform does. Each app has a different audience with its own acquisition and monetization approach, all running on a shared backend platform.

As Head of Apps Engineering, you'll own the engineering side of that portfolio and be the consumer voice in with our ad-tech leadership team. This is a player-coach role by design: you'll lead a deliberately small team of mobile and backend engineers, write and review code yourself, and set the technical direction that lets us ship new apps at a marginal cost that shrinks with each launch. You'll work in lockstep with our Head of Product for the portfolio. And you'll represent the data apps business at the executive level, where your consumer expertise fills a gap the rest of the room knows it has.

This role reports into the SVP of Engineering.

Attain Office Hybrid Schedule (where applicable):

- Redwood City, CA: Mondays (in-office for stand-ups, all-hands) and choice of three days between Tues-Friday
- Chicago, IL: 4 days in office

You'll be a great fit for the role if

- You've built and scaled a consumer app with real ownership (as a founder, CTO, founding engineer, or the technical lead who was accountable for the outcome), and you can speak to what worked and what didn't from firsthand experience
- You've held senior scope before and are excited to lead your team through hands-on building: you want a small, focused team and a big mandate, not a big org
- You instinctively seek to collaborate with your Product counterpart to ship great products
- You're a backend-heavy full-stack engineer who is genuinely fluent across the stack, including React Native, and you still love being in the weeds
- You think like a product engineer: you'd rather pressure-test an idea with your product counterpart before a line of code is written than build the wrong thing beautifully
- You're credible in an executive room: you can represent a business line to a leadership team, translate consumer strategy for an ad-tech-native audience, and hold your ground on what it takes to build for consumers
- You read retention and engagement data across a portfolio of products fluently, and you use it to prioritize with your Product counterpart; you don't wait to be handed a metrics brief before you know which app or feature needs attention
- You get energy from leverage: shared platforms, reusable components, and AI-assisted development that let a five-person team ship like a fifteen-person one
- You've experienced consumer scale (real production load, real users, real growth curves) and know which scaling problems to solve now versus earn later

What a typical week will look like

- Lead architecture and hands-on development across the app portfolio: React Native front ends on a shared, multi-app backend platform
- Partner daily with the portfolio's product lead on roadmap, feasibility, and sequencing: you are the engineering half of that partnership
- Track retention and usage across every app in the portfolio and use it to decide what gets engineering attention next
- Drive the "factory" economics: harden the shared components (onboarding, account linking, loyalty, receipt OCR) so each new app is a configuration and a skin, not a rebuild
- Manage a small team of mobile and backend engineers: line management, code review, and career development, not layers of management
- Represent data apps at executive and planning forums: portfolio status, investment cases, and the consumer perspective on company-level decisions
- Raise the bar on modern engineering leverage: agentic/AI-assisted development is how this team punches above its size

## Preferred Qualifications

- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with several years building consumer-facing mobile products
- Founder, CTO, VP Engineering, or founding-engineer experience at a consumer startup, or equivalent demonstrated ownership of a consumer product's technical outcomes
- Track record taking a consumer app from zero to meaningful scale (users, load, or revenue)
- Deep backend expertise (APIs, data pipelines, cloud infrastructure) plus production React Native or comparable cross-platform mobile experience
- Experience managing small engineering teams directly (line management; this is not a manager-of-managers role)
- Comfortable presenting to and working with executive stakeholders
- Rewards/loyalty or data product experience is a strong plus

We're excited to hear from you.

At Attain, we are passionate about finding people to continuously help us grow our organization. We encourage you to apply, even if your experience doesn't match every detail of the job description. If we don't see something that immediately fits, we will keep your resume on file for future opportunities.

## About Attain

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Attain Partners is a leading strategy, technology, and compliance consulting firm that helps education, nonprofit, healthcare, and state/local government organizations accelerate their missions.
- **Entity Type**: Private
- **Headquarters**: McLean, Virginia, United States
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Management consulting with a focus on the public sector (education, nonprofit, healthcare, state & local government)
- **Target Customers**: B2B / Enterprise – public-sector institutions, including top research universities, nonprofits, and government agencies
- **Mission**: To change the world by disrupting the status quo and improving the lives of those they serve ([attainpartners.com](https://attainpartners.com/about/))

## Products & Services
Attain Partners delivers integrated consulting services rather than standalone products. Their major service lines include:

- **Strategy Consulting**: Change management, advancement advisory, fundraising planning, enrollment management, and cost recovery optimization.
- **Technology Solutions**: Salesforce implementation, data services, application development, Snowflake/Data Governance, and enterprise business solutions (e.g., Workday, Blackbaud CRM).
- **Compliance Services**: Grants management, research administration, contract negotiation, and regulatory compliance support.
- **Embedded Talent**: Placing experts directly within client teams for ongoing support.
- **Asset Management & Valuation**: Advisory on physical and intangible assets.

([attainpartners.com](https://attainpartners.com/home/))

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Over 1,000 Salesforce projects completed; serves more than 150 nonprofit organizations and 70+ of the top 100 U.S. research institutions; works with 100% of Ivy League schools ([attainpartners.com](https://attainpartners.com/home/))
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Salesforce (Summit Partner and 2022 Consulting Partner of the Year – Education)
- **Growth Signals**: Named a 2025 Best Firm to Work For by *Consulting Magazine* and a 2025 Great Place to Work by *Washingtonian Magazine*; consistent hiring across multiple remote and hybrid roles ([attainpartners.com](https://attainpartners.com/home/))

## Competitive Advantages
- Deep specialization in the public sector with proven results at top-tier institutions.
- Strong Salesforce ecosystem credentials (Summit Partner, Education Partner of the Year).
- Values-driven culture that combines large-firm resources with entrepreneurial agility.
- 100% employee-focused retention signals (e.g., high engagement, industry awards).

## Strategic Focus
Attain Partners is focused on helping clients strategically transform their people, processes, and technology. Current priorities include expanding data and analytics capabilities (Snowflake, Data Governance), deepening compliance and grants management expertise, and continuing to grow their Salesforce practice. The firm emphasizes a built-to-last, next-generation consulting model that prioritizes long-term client partnerships over transactional engagements.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Collaborative, learning-oriented environment that values creativity and commitment to excellence. Employees work on mission-driven projects with top research universities, nonprofits, and government agencies.
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Many roles are listed as “United States – Remote”; some positions are based in McLean, VA, Annapolis, MD, or other locations with hybrid options ([job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/attainpartners)).
- **Benefits**: Competitive pay, medical/dental/vision coverage, unlimited PTO, paid holidays, paid parental leave, 401(k) matching with immediate vesting, education reimbursement, and professional development resources ([attainpartners.com](https://attainpartners.com/careers/)).
- **Impact**: Employees directly help clients tackle complex societal challenges in education, healthcare, and government – work that “makes a real difference.”

## Sources
1. [attainpartners.com - About](https://attainpartners.com/about/)
2. [attainpartners.com - Careers](https://attainpartners.com/careers/)
3. [job-boards.greenhouse.io - Attain Partners Jobs](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/attainpartners)
4. [attainpartners.com - Home](https://attainpartners.com/home/)
5. [linkedin.com - Attain Partners](https://www.linkedin.com/company/attainllc)

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