Mobile Engineering Lead — iOS & Android, Scale

talabat; Dubai; On-site; AED 480,000 - 720,000; Full time

Job summary

talabat is seeking a Mobile Engineering Manager to lead the consumer mobile experience on iOS and Android. You’ll own delivery of features used by millions, while staying close to the codebase to guide architectural decisions and maintain high standards.

You’ll manage a team of 6–10 engineers, partnering with product, design, and backend teams. The role emphasizes XP practices and a hands‑on leadership approach, with a focus on quality enabling speed.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of hands-on mobile engineering experience (iOS, Android, or cross‑platform).
• 2+ years leading and managing mobile engineering teams (hiring, performance, career development).
• Deep understanding of mobile app architecture and trade-offs between native vs cross-platform, modular vs monolithic, and state management approaches.
• Experience shipping mobile apps at scale (100K+ DAU) with focus on performance, reliability, and user experience.
• Strong automated testing mindset and CI/CD for mobile; driving testing culture.
• Experience with mobile release management, feature flagging, and gradual rollouts.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 6–10 mobile engineers (iOS and Android) through planning, building, and shipping customer-facing features.
• Own mobile release quality — drive testing strategy, monitor crash rates and performance metrics, and maintain release cadence.
• Partner with product managers and designers to shape what gets built, balancing user impact with technical feasibility.
• Make architectural decisions on mobile patterns (modularisation, dependency injection, reactive patterns, navigation architecture).
• Coach and develop engineers through regular 1:1s, pairing sessions, and career development conversations.
• Manage cross-team dependencies with backend, platform, and infrastructure teams.
• Contribute to mobile engineering standards and practices across talabat.

Skills

Mobile engineering

Team leadership

Architecture evaluation

Performance optimization

CI/CD mindset

Release management

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

talabat is seeking a Mobile Engineering Manager to lead the consumer mobile experience on iOS and Android. You’ll own delivery of features used by millions, while staying close to the codebase to guide architectural decisions and maintain high standards.

You’ll manage a team of 6–10 engineers, partnering with product, design, and backend teams. The role emphasizes XP practices and a hands‑on leadership approach, with a focus on quality enabling speed.