Engineering Manager, Apps

Overview

As Mobile Engineering Manager, you drive the mobile platform’s health and delivery while mentoring a team of iOS and Android engineers. You work cross-functionally with product, design and engineering leadership to ship reliable, high-quality mobile experiences. You balance hands-on coding with people leadership and strategic roadmap input. Your work enables scalable, consumer-facing apps and aligns mobile work with business goals.

Pay / Benefits

• pension or 401(k) plan
• private health insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Work From Anywhere
• generous annual leave and parental leave
• free access to The Economist content

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the iOS and Android engineering team with day-to-day people management and career development
• Stay hands-on: review code, influence architecture, and contribute when needed
• Own delivery for the mobile team: planning, prioritisation, and removing blockers with product
• Set and uphold standards for code quality, testing, performance, accessibility and release practices across platforms
• Collaborate with Product, Design, QA and backend teams to turn roadmaps into a mobile plan
• Clarify and refine product requirements with stakeholders before and during build
• Use metrics (engagement, retention, subscriber conversion, crash-free rate) to guide prioritisation
• Improve engineering practices: CI/CD, release cadence, crash/performance monitoring, app store operations
• Recruit, interview and onboard new mobile engineers as the team grows
• Represent mobile engineering in leadership discussions on technical strategy and cross-team dependencies

Key requirements

• Proven experience as an engineering manager or tech lead with mobile engineering teams
• Hands-on background in native mobile development (iOS/Swift and/or Android/Kotlin)
• Track record of shipping and operating consumer-facing mobile apps at scale
• Experience balancing technical contribution with people leadership and delivery ownership
• Strong understanding of mobile engineering fundamentals: performance, offline/networking, accessibility, testing, and CI/CD for mobile
• Excellent communication skills with cross-functional teams and ability to explain trade-offs

• Excellent communication
• Strong product sense
• Collaborative mindset
• Native mobile development (iOS/Swift, Android/Kotlin)
• Code review and architectural discussion
• CI/CD for mobile

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