Senior AI Mobile Engineer- Tulip Platform at Dutch Bros

Job description

It's fun to work in a company where people truly believe in what they are doing. At Dutch Bros Coffee, we are more than just a coffee company. We are a fun-loving, mind-blowing company that makes a difference one cup at a time. Position Overview: Dutch Bros is investing in enterprise AI capabilities to accelerate delivery, enable self-service technology, and help teams solve meaningful business problems faster. Tulip is a strategic AI platform that provides reusable patterns, tools, and services to make AI-enabled solution delivery easier, safer, and more scalable across the organization. Increasingly, Tulip reaches the business through mobile experiences used by shop crews, field leaders, and operators who are rarely at a desk. The Senior AI Mobile Engineer - Tulip Platform is a hands-on role responsible for designing, building, and shipping the mobile and field-facing experiences that sit on top of Tulip. The focus is user experience and workflow automation: turning manual, paper-based, and desktop-bound processes into fast, intuitive mobile workflows, and integrating Tulip's AI services into the apps and devices field teams use every day. The role also contributes to platform architecture, integration patterns, and engineering standards, and mentors peers through design discussion and code review. The ideal candidate is a pragmatic builder and strong technical partner who obsesses over the end-user experience, designs for real shop and field conditions including intermittent connectivity and one-handed use, navigates ambiguity, and consistently delivers high-quality, AI-enabled mobile solutions aligned to business priorities. Job Qualifications: 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant hands-on experience building and shipping production mobile applications (iOS, Android, or cross-platform such as React Native or Flutter). Demonstrated focus on user experience: partnering with design, prototyping and testing with real users, and shipping interfaces that are fast, accessible, and intuitive for non-technical frontline staff. Experience automating manual and paper-based workflows into mobile-first digital processes, including offline-first data capture, sync and conflict resolution, push notifications, camera and barcode scanning, and location-aware features. Experience integrating AI-enabled services into end-user applications, including large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, agent or workflow orchestration, conversational and voice interfaces, and responsible AI guardrails at the point of use. Strong API and integration skills: consuming and shaping REST, GraphQL, and event-driven services, and working with backend and platform engineers to make mobile clients performant and resilient. Experience with mobile release and quality practices: app store and enterprise distribution, MDM-managed devices, CI/CD for mobile builds, crash and performance monitoring, automated UI testing, and phased rollouts. Working proficiency in Python or a comparable backend language, with enough platform and cloud fluency (Azure, AWS, or GCP; containers; CI/CD; observability) to extend Tulip services where the mobile experience requires it. Experience securing mobile and enterprise integrations, including OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect, SSO on shared and personal devices, on-device data protection, and secrets management. Strong communication skills, with the ability to work directly with field and operations teams to observe how work actually gets done and translate that into technical designs and executable engineering work. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field preferred, or equivalent practical experience. Location Requirement: This role is located in Tempe, Arizona. This position is required to be in office 4 days per week (Mon-Thurs); Fridays are optional remote work days. Key Result Areas (KRAs): Mobile Experience and Product Delivery: De