Mobile Engineering Manager — Scale a 100K+ DAU App (XP)

talabat; Dubai; On-site; AED 450,000 - 650,000; Full time

Job summary

talabat is seeking a Mobile Engineering Manager to lead one of our mobile teams delivering the consumer experience on iOS and Android. You will influence architecture, unblock engineers, and ensure high technical standards while guiding a team of 6–10 engineers through planning, building, and shipping customer‑facing features.

This is a hands‑on leadership role in a fast‑paced XP environment where quality enables speed.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of hands-on mobile engineering experience (iOS, Android, or cross‑platform).
• 2+ years leading and managing mobile engineering teams.
• Deep understanding of mobile app architecture — you can evaluate trade-offs between native vs cross-platform, modular vs monolithic, and different state management approaches.
• Experience shipping mobile apps at scale (100K+ DAU) with a focus on performance, reliability, and user experience.
• Strong automated testing mindset — you believe in CI/CD for mobile and have driven testing culture in a team.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 6–10 mobile engineers 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 & scale

CI/CD for mobile

Release management

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Swift/SwiftUI

Kotlin/Jetpack Compose

Job description

talabat is seeking a Mobile Engineering Manager to lead one of our mobile teams delivering the consumer experience on iOS and Android. You will influence architecture, unblock engineers, and ensure high technical standards while guiding a team of 6–10 engineers through planning, building, and shipping customer‑facing features.

This is a hands‑on leadership role in a fast‑paced XP environment where quality enables speed.