Mobile Engineering Manager: Lead iOS & Android Engineers

The Economist; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension plan

Private health insurance

Employee assistance program

Work From Anywhere

Generous leave (annual)

Volunteer days

Moving support

Free Economist content

Job summary

The Economist is seeking a Mobile Engineering Manager to lead and grow our iOS and Android engineers. You will own the health, delivery and growth of the mobile function, staying close to code while guiding people and partnering with product to shape what we build.

You will work with engineers, product managers, designers and other leads to ship a fast, reliable mobile experience, balancing hands-on contribution with leadership and delivery ownership.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as an engineering manager or tech lead with mobile teams.
• Hands-on in native mobile development with iOS/Swift and/or Android/Kotlin.
• Track record shipping consumer mobile apps at scale, with release management.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a mobile engineering team (iOS and Android).
• Stay hands-on: review code and contribute to architecture.
• Own delivery planning, prioritisation and blockers with product management.
• Set engineering standards for quality, testing, performance, accessibility and release practices.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, QA and backend teams on roadmaps.
• Translate product requirements into technical plans and milestones.
• Use metrics to inform prioritisation and success criteria.
• Improve CI/CD, release cadence and app-store operations.
• Recruit, interview and onboard new mobile engineers.

Skills

Mobile engineering

iOS/Swift

Android/Kotlin

Code review

Architecture discussion

Delivery ownership

CI/CD for mobile

Job description

The Economist is seeking a Mobile Engineering Manager to lead and grow our iOS and Android engineers. You will own the health, delivery and growth of the mobile function, staying close to code while guiding people and partnering with product to shape what we build.

You will work with engineers, product managers, designers and other leads to ship a fast, reliable mobile experience, balancing hands-on contribution with leadership and delivery ownership.