Mobile App Team Lead

Overview

About The Role

Mobile App Team Lead

Apple App Store

Google Play Store

1. Team Leadership

• Lead, mentor, and guide the mobile development team across iOS and Android.
• Take ownership of the team’s day-to-day execution, delivery progress, technical output, and priorities.
• Ensure all team members have clear responsibilities, assigned tasks, and agreed delivery timelines.
• Break down mobile development work into clear technical tasks and assign them effectively across the team.
• Monitor progress closely and proactively identify risks, blockers, delays, and dependencies.
• Act as the first escalation point for mobile-related technical and delivery issues.

2. Mobile Technical Leadership

• Provide technical direction across both iOS and Android mobile applications.
• Lead technical design sessions and ensure mobile solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable, and aligned with business needs.
• Conduct code reviews and ensure best practices, coding standards, and clean architecture principles are followed.
• Challenge technical decisions where needed and ensure the right implementation approach is selected.
• Support developers with complex technical issues and ensure proper solutions are implemented.

3. Mobile App Development & Architecture

• Oversee the design, development, and maintenance of the mobile application across iOS and Android.
• Ensure the iOS app follows modern Apple development standards using Swift and relevant Apple frameworks.
• Ensure the Android app follows modern Android development standards using Kotlin/Java, Android SDK, Jetpack libraries, and related technologies.
• Define and enforce suitable mobile architecture patterns such as MVVM, MVC, MVP, or Clean Architecture.
• Ensure proper integration with RESTful APIs, backend services, third-party SDKs, authentication flows, and mobile data layers.

4. App Store & Google Play Ownership

• Own and manage the release process for the mobile app on the

Apple App Store

Google Play Store

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• Coordinate app submissions, app updates, version management, release notes, screenshots, store assets, and required metadata.
• Ensure compliance with Apple App Store and Google Play Store policies, guidelines, privacy requirements, and review processes.
• Work with Product, Marketing, Compliance, Legal, and Security teams to ensure store content and app requirements are properly aligned.

5. System Performance, Quality & Reliability

• Ensure the mobile application delivers a smooth, stable, secure, and high-performance user experience.
• Identify and resolve mobile performance bottlenecks, crashes, memory issues, responsiveness issues, and platform-specific bugs.
• Work closely with QA and QA Automation teams to support mobile testing, regression testing, integration testing, and release validation.
• Ensure proper test coverage, including unit testing, UI testing, integration testing, and automated testing where applicable.

6. Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with Product Owners and Product Managers to understand requirements, define scope, and agree delivery timelines.
• Collaborate with UI/UX Designers to deliver intuitive, user-friendly, and consistent mobile experiences.
• Work with Backend Engineers to ensure API readiness, integration quality, and performance.
• Partner with QA teams to ensure proper test planning, mobile regression coverage, and release validation.
• Work with DevOps teams on CI/CD pipelines, build automation, environments, and deployment processes.

7. Delivery & Project Ownership

• Drive sprint planning, task breakdown, estimation, and delivery tracking for the mobile team.
• Maintain clear communication with Product and management regarding delivery progress, risks, dependencies, and blockers.
• Ensure mobile releases are planned, tested, approved, and delivered according to agreed timelines.
• Challenge unclear requirements, incomplete designs, missing dependencies, or unrealistic timelines where needed.
• Ensure technical documentation, implementation plans, release notes, and knowledge-sharing materials are maintained.

8. Engineering Standards & Process Improvement

• Enforce mobile coding standards, code review processes, documentation, and technical governance.
• Improve mobile development processes, release processes, estimation accuracy, and delivery efficiency.
• Support the adoption of CI/CD, automation, mobile testing frameworks, monitoring tools, and productivity improvements.
• Encourage the use of AI-assisted development tools to improve speed, code quality, documentation, and testing.

Required Skills & Experience

• 7+ years of professional experience in mobile application development.
• Proven experience of 2+ years as a Mobile Team Lead, Technical Lead, or similar role.
• Strong hands-on experience in either iOS development using Swift or Android development using Kotlin/Java.
• Strong understanding of both iOS and Android ecosystems.
• Experience managing or leading mobile engineers across iOS and Android.
• Experience publishing and maintaining apps on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
• Strong understanding of App Store and Google Play release processes, review guidelines, versioning, and production release management.
• Experience with RESTful APIs, JSON, third-party SDKs, and backend service integrations.
• Strong understanding of mobile architecture patterns such as MVVM, MVC, MVP, or Clean Architecture.

Preferred Skills

• Experience in Fintech, Forex, Trading, Banking, or financial applications.
• Experience building or supporting trading, investment, payments, onboarding, or client portal mobile applications.
• Strong iOS knowledge including Swift, Objective-C, UIKit, CoreData, AutoLayout, Apple frameworks, and App Store Connect.
• Strong Android knowledge including Kotlin, Java, Android SDK, Jetpack libraries, Room, Retrofit, Coroutines, Firebase, and Google Play Console.
• Experience with mobile analytics, crash reporting, and monitoring tools such as Firebase Crashlytics, App Center, Sentry, or similar.
• Experience with mobile security, authentication, biometrics, secure storage, and encrypted communication.
• Experience working with UI/UX teams using Figma or similar tools.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum delivery, sprint planning, estimation, and release governance.
• Experience using AI tools to improve mobile development productivity, code reviews, testing, and documentation.