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title: 'Mobile Engineer at Lutra'
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# Mobile Engineer at Lutra

- **Company:** Lutra
- **Location:** Toronto, Canada
- **Compensation:** $120k–$170k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-08
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/lutra/am9icG9zdDrTZIFeZV3NG53jiU4rE5k7

## Job description

## Your opportunity

Our client is a Canadian fintech reimagining how people manage their money, starting with one of their largest recurring expenses: their monthly bills. The team built a leading position in the domestic bill-pay market and is now expanding toward a broader set of consumer financial products. The company moves hundreds of millions in annual transaction volume and operates with venture backing and a stable runway.

The next twelve months bring new products, deeper payments infrastructure, and a growing surface area across web and mobile. This role offers substantial ownership over what ships to a large consumer user base. This is a senior, hands-on role. Everyone on the team writes code. The engineers who thrive here take an ambiguous problem, work it, ship it, and adapt when requirements change. You will lead on mobile projects while moving across the front end and into the back end when the work calls for it. The environment is fast-paced and rarely the same two weeks running.

You will own the mobile experience for a React Native application across iOS and Android, currently live and roughly at parity with web. The work is continuous improvement, new product surfaces, and ongoing experimentation rather than a from-scratch build. You will partner closely with product, design, and the rest of engineering to turn early ideas into shipped features.

Tech stack

- Mobile: React Native (iOS and Android), Typescript
- Front-end: React, React Native, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS
- Back-end: Node.js, NestJS, TypeScript, Firebase
- Infrastructure & DevOps: Git, GCP

## Key responsibilities

- Mobile application development: Ship and maintain features across the React Native app end to end, spanning architecture, code, testing, and release to the App Store and Google Play
- Full-stack contribution: Contribute to front-end and back-end work as the problem demands, without being confined to a single layer
- Technical leadership: Take ownership of projects, set the quality standard for surrounding engineers, and mentor others regardless of title
- Problem ownership in ambiguity: Take a rough problem, determine what actually needs solving, execute, and adapt when requirements shift
- Code quality & reliability: Write well-tested, maintainable code; engage in code reviews, refine development practices, and help optimize continuous integration and delivery workflows
- Scalability engineering: Participate in technical design discussions to ensure that systems can handle increasing transaction volumes and growing feature complexity, all while maintaining security, performance, and reliability
- Cross-functional collaboration: Work closely with product, design, and other engineering team members to translate product requirements into technical solutions; share insights, mentor less experienced engineers, and contribute to a supportive, knowledge-sharing culture
- Adaptability & Innovation: Keep abreast of emerging technologies and industry trends; experiment with new tools and approaches to ensure that the team’s technology choices remain efficient, current, and well-suited to the evolving product roadmap

## Your know-how

- You have 5+ years of software engineering experience
- You have 3+ years of mobile development experience, ideally building React Native applications for iOS and Android
- You have experience navigating app store submissions and updates for cross-platform deployment
- You have experience designing, implementing and maintaining RESTful APIs
- You have experience with Git version control and release management
- You have experience working with large datasets and NoSQL databases
- You have a track record of driving and delivering key initiatives in high autonomy, fast-paced settings
- You have strong communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical ideas in accessible terms, contribute to cross-functional discussions, and thrive in a team that values mentorship, openness, and respectful discourse

It’s a bonus if

- You have experience with financial/payments APIs (e.g., Stripe, Flinks) and payments infrastructure
- You have experience working in a startup setting and bringing applications to market from scratch (perhaps even as a former founder/founding team member)
- You are proficient with CI/CD workflows and tooling
- You have experience integrating mobile apps with Node.js back-end services in a full-stack environment

## About Lutra

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Lutra is a water and wastewater process engineering consultancy and software provider, delivering smarter solutions to protect water, the environment, and people’s health.
- **Entity Type**: Private
- **Headquarters**: Lower Hutt, New Zealand
- **Founded**: 2006
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Water & Wastewater Treatment, Utilities, Environmental Engineering, Data Management Software
- **Target customers**: Government municipalities, industrial clients in New Zealand, and international clients in the water and wastewater sector (B2B, Enterprise)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "To protect water, the environment and people's health, by providing smarter solutions."

## Products & Services
For each major offering:
- **Infrastructure Data (ID)**: A market-leading, scalable, cloud-based operations and compliance management software platform. It is designed to improve operational performance, data quality, and reduce organisational risk for water and wastewater treatment assets. The software is used to manage assets accounting for 75% of New Zealand’s population.
- **Water & Wastewater Process Engineering**: Expert consultancy services including options studies, process design, commissioning support, and optimisation for water and wastewater treatment plants (e.g., activated sludge systems, MABR).
- **Advanced Process Control (APC)**: Services to improve plant performance, efficiency, and compliance through advanced control strategies.
- **Training**: Operational training and knowledge transfer for clients in the three waters industry.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of USD 5,400,000 (estimated); Total Funding of USD 60,100 (from two grants by Callaghan Innovation in 2016 and 2017).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Callaghan Innovation (grant provider), and a supportive global parent company (not named in sources).
- **Growth Signals**: The company has grown from a small team in 2006 to a team of 35. It serves 30+ clients in NZ’s government and industrial space, plus 25+ international clients. Its software holds the market majority for compliance management in NZ.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep Domain Expertise**: One of the largest water process engineering teams in New Zealand, with two decades of experience.
- **Market Leading Software**: The Infrastructure Data platform is the trusted industry solution for compliance and operations management, serving the majority of the NZ population’s water assets.
- **End-to-End Solutions**: Combines expert engineering knowledge with innovative technology (software, APC, training) to provide comprehensive solutions.
- **Outcomes-Focused**: Prioritises customer needs and delivers excellence through deep upfront understanding of client requirements.

## Strategic Focus
- **Growth and Expansion**: Actively seeking a Domestic Business Development Manager to secure Lutra’s position in the reformed water sector in New Zealand.
- **Talent Development**: Focused on building career pathways and developing employees through a supportive global parent company, aiming for a "no glass ceiling" environment.
- **Sustainability**: Committed to reducing emissions and developing sustainable operating practices, reflected in their Statement of Intent and Mission.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as a team of experts committed to excellence, with a strong focus on people. The company invests heavily in training, work/life balance, and providing a safe, healthy, and fun workplace.
- **Flexibility**: All employees have flexibility to work from home and are provided with packages to do so. There are no enforced traditional start or finish times, offering trust and autonomy.
- **Wellbeing Package**: Includes comprehensive Health Insurance, an employee assistance provider, wellbeing days, and a 6-monthly allowance.
- **Career Development**: Formal career pathways are in place, and the company supports training and development with a "no glass ceiling" philosophy due to its global parent company.
- **Compensation**: Competitive compensation and an annual bonus scheme for all employees.
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Highly flexible with a strong work-from-home culture.

## Sources
1. [lutra.com/about](https://www.lutra.com/about-us)
2. [lutra.com/careers](https://www.lutra.com/careers)
3. [linkedin.com/company/lutra-ltd](https://linkedin.com/company/lutra-ltd)
4. [lutra.com/our-team](https://www.lutra.com/our-team)
5. [prospeo.io/c/lutra-revenue](https://prospeo.io/c/lutra-revenue)

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