Job Description:
Job Summary
This role blends strategic technical leadership with hands-on mobile engineering expertise to lead the architecture, development, and delivery of native mobile applications across iOS and Android platforms. The position owns end-to-end solution design, engineering execution, and operational excellence while guiding cross-platform teams and establishing modern mobile architecture standards.
The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in either Swift or Kotlin with strong working knowledge of both ecosystems, enabling consistent, scalable, and high-quality mobile solutions.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Technical Leadership
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Provide hands-on technical leadership across mobile engineering teams, driving architecture, design, development, and delivery excellence
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Serve as a bridge between business stakeholders and engineering teams to translate requirements into scalable solutions
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Define mobile platform architecture standards and guide technology trade-offs
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Lead adoption of modern mobile development practices and emerging technologies
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Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and technical decision-making
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Establish scalable mobile architecture frameworks supporting reuse, testing, and performance
Mobile Architecture & Engineering Excellence
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Define and evolve mobile architecture patterns including MVVM, Clean Architecture, dependency injection, and modularization
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Maintain platform expertise across iOS and Android frameworks and tooling
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Ensure high-quality coding standards and engineering best practices
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Drive consistency across cross-platform solutions and development processes
Delivery, DevOps & Quality
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Own end-to-end delivery from solution design through release and optimization
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Collaborate with cross-functional Agile teams to execute high-quality features
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Establish and maintain mobile CI/CD pipelines for automated testing, builds, and deployments
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Manage app store releases, phased rollouts, feature flags, and compliance
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Implement robust testing strategies including unit, UI, performance, and integration testing
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Lead continuous improvement through metrics-driven development
Technical Collaboration & Documentation
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Produce and maintain architecture diagrams, data flows, and operational documentation
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Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to business and leadership stakeholders
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Provide technical guidance, recommendations, and trade-off analysis
Required Qualifications
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Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field
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7+ years of experience building native mobile applications
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10+ years of overall IT or software development experience
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Proven experience as a technical lead, architect, or senior engineer
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Strong knowledge of mobile architecture, APIs, and DevOps practices
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Excellent communication and leadership skills
Technical Competencies
iOS:
Swift, SwiftUI/UIKit, Combine or RxSwift, async/await, Core Data/Realm, networking frameworks, secure storage
Android:
Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Room, Hilt/Koin, Coroutines/Flow or RxJava, networking frameworks, background processing
Architecture & DevOps:
MVVM, Clean Architecture, modularization, dependency injection, CI/CD pipelines, Git-based workflows
Additional Technologies:
Analytics tools, feature flag platforms, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), API integration
Preferred Qualifications
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Experience in regulated or infrastructure-heavy industries
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Multilingual communication skills