Mobile Engineering Lead (iOS/Android) — Fintech
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About the Role
eMagine Solutions seeks a hands-on Mobile Engineering Lead to own delivery and releases for a high-performance iOS and Android trading application for a confidential fintech client.
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Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and guide mobile engineers across iOS and Android
- Own day to day execution: task breakdown, assignment, timelines, and delivery tracking
- Proactively identify risks, blockers, dependencies, and delays — and remove them fast
- Act as the first escalation point for mobile technical and delivery issues
- Support onboarding, coaching, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement
- Provide technical direction across iOS and Android, ensuring consistency in UX, performance, and quality
- Run design discussions and drive scalable, secure, maintainable solutions
- Enforce engineering standards: code reviews, clean architecture, documentation, and best practices
- Support developers with complex technical issues and decision making
- Oversee design, development, and maintenance of the mobile app across both platforms
- Drive and enforce architecture patterns (MVVM/MVP/Clean Architecture)
- Ensure reliable integration with REST APIs, authentication flows, third party SDKs, and mobile data layers
Requirements
- 7+ years professional mobile development experience
- 2+ years in a Mobile Team Lead / Tech Lead / Engineering Lead role
- Strong hands on expertise in either iOS (Swift) or Android (Kotlin/Java)
- Solid understanding of both iOS and Android ecosystems
- Proven experience publishing and maintaining apps on Apple App Store and Google Play
- Strong grasp of mobile release governance, review guidelines, and production release management
- Experience with REST APIs, JSON, third party SDKs, and backend integrations
- Strong knowledge of architecture patterns (MVVM/MVC/MVP/Clean)
- Experience with Git workflows, branching strategies, and code review processes
- Exposure to CI/CD pipelines for mobile builds and deployments
- Strong stakeholder communication (Product, UX, Backend, QA, DevOps, Security, Compliance)
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Overview
- eMagine Solutions is hiring a hands on Mobile Engineering Lead to own delivery and releases for a high performance iOS + Android trading application for a confidential fintech client.
- This is a leadership role for someone who can stay close to the code, drive delivery, and run the end to end mobile release process (App Store + Google Play) with minimal supervision.
What you’ll be doing
- Team leadership and delivery ownership: Lead, mentor, and guide mobile engineers across iOS and Android; Own day to day execution; Proactively identify risks, blockers, dependencies, and delays; Act as the first escalation point; Support onboarding, coaching, knowledge sharing.
- Technical leadership (hands on): Provide technical direction across iOS and Android; Run design discussions; Enforce engineering standards; Support developers with complex technical issues.
- Architecture and mobile engineering: Oversee design, development, and maintenance of the mobile app; Drive and enforce architecture patterns; Ensure reliable integration with REST APIs, authentication flows, third party SDKs; Partner closely with backend teams.
- App Store + Google Play ownership: Own release management; Ensure compliance with Apple/Google policies; Monitor store feedback, ratings, reviews, crash reports.
- Quality, performance, and reliability: Drive stability and performance; Work with QA/automation teams; Support incident response, RCA, and preventive actions.
What we’re looking for
- 7+ years professional mobile development experience.
- 2+ years in a Mobile Team Lead / Tech Lead / Engineering Lead role.
- Strong hands on expertise in either iOS (Swift) or Android (Kotlin/Java).
- Solid understanding of both iOS and Android ecosystems.
- Proven experience publishing and maintaining apps on Apple App Store and Google Play.
- Strong grasp of mobile release governance, review guidelines, and production release management.
- Experience with REST APIs, JSON, third party SDKs, and backend integrations.
- Strong knowledge of architecture patterns (MVVM/MVC/MVP/Clean).
- Experience with Git workflows, branching strategies, and code review processes.
- Exposure to CI/CD pipelines for mobile builds and deployments.
- Strong stakeholder communication (Product, UX, Backend, QA, DevOps, Security, Compliance).
Nice to have
- Fintech / trading / banking / high performance consumer app experience.
- Mobile analytics & crash tooling (Crashlytics, Sentry, App Center, etc.).
- Mobile security: secure storage, encryption, biometrics, auth best practices.
- Experience working closely with UI/UX teams (Figma or similar).
Why this role
- Lead a strategic mobile product in a fast paced fintech environment.
- High ownership: delivery, engineering standards, and release outcomes.
- Work cross functionally with senior stakeholders and strong engineering teams.
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