Lead Mobile Developer

📍 Can be based in either Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, or Bristols – 2 days per week

💰 £67,000 – £76,000 + comprehensive benefits

🕒 Permanent | Full-time

A growing digital consultancy is looking for a Lead Mobile Developer to join its Software Engineering practice at Lead Consultant level.

This is a hands-on leadership role within multidisciplinary teams delivering transformative mobile solutions across public and private sector clients. You’ll shape mobile strategy, lead architecture and delivery, and play a key role in ensuring applications are scalable, secure, high-performing, and aligned to real user needs.

The Role

You will:

• Lead the technical design and delivery of complex mobile applications
• Drive modern mobile architecture patterns (e.g., MVVM, Clean Architecture)
• Make informed technology decisions across native and cross-platform solutions
• Mentor and guide senior and mid-level engineers
• Collaborate with clients, designers, and stakeholders to translate requirements into robust mobile solutions
• Ensure engineering best practices across security, accessibility, offline capability, and store compliance
• Support bids and proposals, articulating mobile strategy and technical direction
• Represent technical excellence in workshops, discovery sessions, and client engagements

What We’re Looking For

• Proven experience as a Lead or Senior Mobile Engineer delivering complex mobile apps
• Strong native development expertise in Swift (iOS) and Kotlin (Android)
• Experience with Flutter (Dart) and cross-platform development (including state management and platform channels)
• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Bitrise, Fastlane, GitHub Actions)
• Experience integrating RESTful APIs, GraphQL, Firebase, and local persistence solutions (Room, CoreData, SQLite)
• Knowledge of release lifecycles, automated testing (unit, UI, integration), and beta distribution tools (TestFlight, App Center)

Benefits

• Competitive, transparent salary
• 25 days holiday + UK public holidays
• Contributory pension (6% employer / 2% employee)
• Life assurance, critical illness cover, death-in-service cover
• Flexible benefits package (private medical/dental options, additional pension, extra holiday purchase, wellbeing funds, charity contributions, tree planting options)
• Volunteer days
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Season ticket loans
• Access to retail and lifestyle discounts
• Wellbeing and financial support sessions
• Relocation support up to £8,000