Lead Mobile Engineer
Posted 2 weeks ago by 1752646824
Negotiable
Outside
Remote
USA
Summary: The Lead Mobile Engineer will oversee two scrum teams consisting of iOS and Android developers, focusing primarily on leadership and project management rather than hands-on coding. This role requires a blend of technical expertise and leadership skills to guide the teams in feature analysis, requirements gathering, and technical decision-making. The position is remote and is structured as a 6-month rolling contract. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in mobile development and leadership.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead two scrum teams (2 iOS and 2 Android developers/team).
- Engage in 20-30% hands-on coding for additional work like spikes or POCs.
- Conduct feature analysis, requirements gathering, and assist with design.
- Take ownership of documentation, code reviews, and handling POCs.
- Articulate the platform and lead technical decisions for Android or iOS.
- Coordinate efforts across both platforms and provide system architecture overviews.
- Implement plans for new features and remove blockers.
- Align on priorities and grow the technical capabilities of the team.
Key Skills:
- Leadership experience at a senior level.
- Proficiency in both Android (Kotlin) and iOS (Swift UI).
- Experience with Jetpack Compose and Swift UI.
- Hands-on coding experience (20-30%).
- Knowledge of REST APIs.
- 5+ years of experience with iOS and Android development.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: USA
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
Position: Lead Mobile Engineer
Location: Remote
Duration : 6 month rolling contract
Position Overview:
Looking for a Sr/lead Mobile Engineer to backfill a current member of the team. This person will start by running two scrum teams (2 iOS and 2 Android developers/team), but ultimately would like to have 1 lead per team.
Day to Day Responsibilities/typical day look like:
This resource will only be about 20-30% hands on (coding if there is additional work like a spike or POC), and 70% leadership, feature analysis, requirements gathering, assisting with design, ownership, documentation, code reviews, handling POCs, articulating the platform, lead technical decisions for either Android or iOS (depending on your core strength), while coordinating efforts across both platforms, system architecture overviews, implementation plans for new features, remove blockers, align on priorities, and grow their technical capabilities and taking the ownership of the Mobile Deliveries
MUST Haves:
1. Leadership Experience/Senior level
2. Both Android (Kotlin) & iOS (Swift UI)
3. Jetpack Compose
4. Swift UI
5. Coding Experience (20-30%)
6. Rest APIs
5+ years exp with IOS & Android
Kotlin and Swift
Jetpack compose
Swift UI
Rest API's