Lead Mobile Engineer

Overview

In this role you will lead and contribute as the technical backbone of a mobile squad responsible for native Android and iOS apps. You will collaborate with a Product Manager and UX team to deliver scalable, well-architected mobile experiences and mentor engineers to grow. You’ll stay hands-on, shaping technical direction, architecture, and code quality while partnering with backend teams and cloud services. This is an opportunity to influence mobile strategy, improve product stability, and drive high-impact features in a fast-moving, cross-functional environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and development of native Android and iOS apps with a focus on scalability, performance, and security
• Provide technical leadership on mobile architecture, frameworks, libraries, and best practices for code quality, performance, accessibility, and security
• Remain hands-on, writing and reviewing mobile code to ensure high-quality, maintainable applications
• Collaborate with backend engineers to design and consume robust APIs
• Mentor and coach mobile engineers to foster ownership and technical excellence
• Own build, release, and deployment processes including CI/CD and app store submissions
• Champion automated testing, observability, and responsible use of AI to enhance developer productivity and software quality

Key requirements

• 7+ years of professional software engineering with a focus on mobile apps
• Strong experience building native Android and iOS apps and understanding modern mobile architectures
• Experience as Lead Engineer, Tech Lead, or Senior Mobile Engineer leading a small team
• Experience integrating AI-assisted development tools into workflows
• Hands-on experience integrating mobile apps with backend APIs (REST/GraphQL) and cloud services
• Strong testing focus with mobile testing frameworks and automated testing approaches
• Experience owning mobile CI/CD pipelines and app store releases
• Observability mindset with crash reporting, performance monitoring, and analytics tools
• Proficiency with Git, Jira, Confluence, and modern agile workflows
• Proven ability to mentor engineers, review code/designs, and balance pragmatism with excellence

• mentoring and coaching
• strong ownership
• team collaboration
• native Android development
• native iOS development
• mobile architectures and design patterns

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