Head of Apps Engineering, Enterprise

🏢 Attain · 📍 Chicago, IL; Redwood City, CA

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Position Summary & Responsibilities

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 ex

🎯 Candidate Preparation Guide For Attain Applicants

Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Evaluating your mastery of data privacy compliance, consumer behavior analytics, and scaling data-driven loyalty or reward ecosystems.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):

1. Dismissive attitude toward data privacy safeguards and ethical compliance.
2. Inability to explain complex data pipelines in simple, business-impact terms.
3. Over-reliance on intuition rather than empirical consumer data.

✨ Recommended Role Alignment Hook:

I know how to unlock the true value of consumer purchase data by building transparent, high-retention reward ecosystems that brands trust.

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