Head of Mobile

🚀 Technical Lead (Mobile)

📍 London (Hybrid – 3 days in office)

💰 Salary up to £120,000

👥 Leadership: Up to 4 direct reports

A well‑established global Ed-tech organisation is building a brand‑new Mobile Innovation Squad, created to accelerate the next generation of their mobile app experience used by millions of users worldwide. This is a rare opportunity to influence technical direction from day one, shape engineering culture, and lead the mobile evolution of a major digital product.

If you’re passionate about mobile development, modern engineering practices, and leading high‑performing teams, this could be your next step.

🌟 The Role

We’re looking for an experienced Technical Lead to play a key role in shaping and scaling a new engineering squad dedicated to mobile innovation. Reporting into senior engineering leadership, you’ll guide a small, high‑impact team of Software Engineers while driving modernisation, delivery excellence, and high‑quality engineering standards.

You’ll work in a collaborative hybrid environment alongside Product Managers, QAs, Scrum Masters, and fellow engineering leaders, all focused on building secure, reliable, and intuitive mobile experiences.

💡 What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Software Engineers (1:1s, coaching, development plans)
• Drive engineering excellence across mobile, backend, and platform components
• Champion quality security, testing strategies, release processes, performance
• Guide the delivery of new mobile features and ensure sprint outcomes are met
• Partner with architects to design scalable, enterprise‑grade services
• Recruit and onboard great engineering talent, including early‑career roles
• Collaborate with other Tech Leads on planning, estimation, and technical strategy
• Promote strong engineering culture and an exceptional developer experience

🛠️ What You’ll Bring

Technical Expertise

• Strong background building services using React, Java, and C#
• Deep mobile development experience across iOS & Android
• Kotlin / Java
• Swift / Objective‑C
• React Native
• Solid understanding of design patterns (e.g., hexagonal architecture)
• Experience working with REST APIs, modern integrations, and microservices
• Knowledge of NoSQL & relational databases, caching, messaging queues
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud‑native deployment
• Strong focus on testing, quality, CI/CD, A/B testing, observability, and performance
• Enthusiasm for modern engineering practices and continuous learning

Leadership Experience

• Proven history leading and developing engineering teams
• Skilled at coaching, performance management, and creating high‑performing, growth‑oriented cultures

🎁 What’s In It For You

• 25 days annual leave (rising to 30)
• 5% pension
• State‑of‑the‑art office spaces
• Access to a wide range of lifestyle and wellbeing benefits
• Eye care cover
• Life Assurance
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Monthly social events
• Access to extensive Learning & Development pathways