The Lead Engineer (Mobile) - Consumer Experience Engineering

About PUMA

Organisation and Role

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, design, development, and evolution of large-scale consumer-facing mobile applications.
• Define mobile engineering standards, architectural principles, reusable patterns, and best practices.
• Provide technical direction for React Native solutions across iOS and Android.
• Guide lifecycle management, release readiness, store distribution, and production support.
• Define security and privacy standards for storage, authentication, data protection, and third-party SDKs.
• Partner with product, design, architecture, quality engineering, and platform teams.
• Drive patterns for state management, APIs, offline capability, caching, error handling, and performance.
• Lead integrations with commerce, content, analytics, and third-party platforms.
• Ensure WCAG accessibility and help evolve reusable mobile design systems.
• Support experimentation, feature flags, A/B testing, and data-driven consumer-journey optimization.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with significant mobile application development expertise.
• 3+ years leading a technical capability, project, or engineering team.
• Strong hands-on React Native and modern TypeScript/JavaScript expertise.
• Deep understanding of iOS and Android fundamentals and mobile application lifecycles.
• Experience with mobile build, signing, release, distribution, and application store processes.
• Expertise in mobile system design, application architecture, and engineering patterns.
• Experience with state management, API integration, caching, offline-first, and synchronization patterns.
• Experience integrating native iOS and Android modules into React Native applications.
• Experience optimizing startup, rendering, memory, network efficiency, and responsiveness.
• Knowledge of WCAG, mobile accessibility, and inclusive experience engineering.
• Experience with experimentation platforms, feature flags, and A/B testing.
• Ability to make architectural decisions, influence technical direction, and mentor engineers.

Additional Skills

• Understanding of design systems, reusable component libraries, and mobile UX engineering principles.
• Experience using coding agents, LLMs, or AI-assisted engineering tools to improve delivery and productivity.
• Experience in eCommerce, retail, or consumer digital products is strongly preferred.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, technical leadership, stakeholder management, and decision-making skills.

Equal Opportunity