Mobile Apps Team Lead (7+ years)

Sidekick Interactive; Canada; Remote; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in mobile app development is seeking a Mobile Apps Team Lead for a remote, full-time role. You will lead a mobile engineering team, take ownership of iOS and Android platforms, and drive mobile strategy. This position offers the chance to make significant contributions to a fast-growing SaaS company poised for major growth.

Benefits

Flexible hours

Remote work

Challenging projects

Qualifications

• 7+ years in mobile development with expertise in iOS and Android.
• Experience leading mobile teams in SaaS or white-label environments.
• Track record managing App Store and Google Play publishing.

Responsibilities

• Lead the mobile apps team and report to the CTO.
• Take full technical ownership of iOS and Android codebases.
• Evaluate and modernize infrastructure and tech stack.

Skills

Mobile Development

Team Leadership

Communication

Strategic Decision Making

AI and Automation Minded

Tools

Objective-C

Swift

Java

Kotlin

GitHub Actions

Job description

Sidekick Interactive is a dynamic company which primarily develops mobile applications (native iOS and native Android) for a variety of different clients. We’ve worked on innovative and challenging projects for the City of Montreal, City of Laval, car2go, multiple startups, European clients, and fortune 500 companies. We touch various industries such as medtech, construction, tourism, and more. We primarily do custom work for our clients as well as develop multiple in-house projects. All our apps are programmed entirely natively, and we love to tackle challenging tech problems, like 3D scans and Bluetooth Mesh.

Job Description

We’re currently recruiting on behalf of a client for an exciting opportunity: Mobile Apps Team Lead. This is a remote, full-time role where you’ll lead a mobile engineering team and take full technical ownership of both iOS and Android platforms. This is a high-impact, hands-on leadership position focused on driving mobile strategy, scaling app deployment, and modernizing infrastructure.

This is arare opportunityto join a fast-growing SaaS company that has achievedamazing growthand is currently looking to accelerate product and team expansion. As mobile is core to their platform strategy, the person in this role will be at the center of their next major evolution, with full ownership over mobile delivery and the chance to leave a meaningful mark on a company that’s poised to make big waves.

Why Work With Us?

• Collaborate on challenging and innovative mobile projects.
• Work with a motivated and experienced team.
• Flexible hours and remote work.
• Take on a key leadership role and drive real product change.
• Stay at the forefront of mobile tech, with support for innovation and modernization.

Responsibilities

• Lead the mobile apps team (2 engineers) and report directly to the CTO.
• Take full technical ownership of the iOS and Android codebases.
• Be a hands-on developer and architect; ship code regularly while setting engineering standards.
• Own the mobile team’s productivity, decision-making, and velocity.
• Evaluate and modernize infrastructure, tech stack, and release processes.
• Help steer current UX/UI overhaul and help guide a potential new version of the app (3.0).
• Solve current Google Play publishing challenges (e.g. app review blocks, account risks).
• Lead CI/CD efforts and ensure automation is optimized.
• Improve development workflow for managing and deploying thousands of white-label native apps.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to align app functionality with the needs of gym owners (our primary users).
• Help with growing the mobile development team.
• Contribute to product thinking and roadmap planning while acting as a partner to the product team (especially during its build-out).
• Advocate for and implement AI-driven productivity enhancements in the dev workflow.

Tech Stack & Environment

• Native iOS:Legacy in Objective-C, newer work in Swift
• Native Android:Legacy in Java, newer development in Kotlin
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions.
• SDK Integrations: Stripe, Tap to Pay, HealthKit, Bluetooth integrations, access management tools, wearables.
• Internal CMS powers white-label customizations for hundreds of clients.

Ideal Candidate Profile

• 7+ years in mobile development with deep expertise in both iOS and Android.
• Experience leading mobile teams in SaaS or white-label product environments.
• Track record managing App Store and Google Play publishing at scale (especially Android bulk deployment).
• Strong communicator capable of working with execs, engineers, and non-technical stakeholders.
• Comfortable taking initiative, making strategic decisions, and driving change.
• Bonus: AI- and automation-minded; excited to explore emerging tools that improve productivity.
• Bonus: Experience bringing in additional talent to scale the team.

Other Details

• Location:Remote. Must have overlap with Eastern Time working hours.
• Preferred Regions:US or Canada.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

• Industries

  Software Development

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