Senior Mobile Engineering Leader — Kotlin/Swift BFF

ITHR Group plc; England; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

ITHR Group plc is seeking a hands-on Senior Engineering Manager to lead the delivery of a new travel mobile application. You will drive the backend-for-frontend service layer, governance, and engineering excellence across multiple teams across the UK.

You will provide technical leadership, shape architecture, implement cloud-native microservices, and establish best practices for testing, deployment, and observability. Strong background in Java/Kotlin and mobile platforms is essential.

Qualifications

• 10-12+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong leadership experience within complex enterprise environments.
• Expert knowledge of Java 17+, Kotlin, Spring, and Gradle.
• Proven experience designing and delivering microservices architectures.
• Strong experience with Swift (iOS) and Kotlin (Android).
• Deep understanding of cloud technologies and modern engineering practices.
• Expertise with GitHub Actions, CircleCI, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with observability tools such as Sentry.
• Strong background in automated testing and deployment.
• Ideal background includes Mobile Engineering Manager, Engineering Lead, Principal Engineer with people management.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of the BFF layer supporting iOS and Android applications.
• Provide technical leadership across engineering teams and vendors.
• Drive architecture, design, coding, testing, deployment, and operational support.
• Establish engineering best practices including code reviews, CI/CD, and release management.
• Implement scalable cloud-native microservices and platform improvements.
• Own observability, monitoring, logging, and alerting strategies.
• Manage delivery, stakeholder engagement, and programme governance.
• Mentor, develop, and grow high-performing engineering teams.

Skills

Leadership

Java 17+

Kotlin

Spring

Gradle

Microservices

Swift (iOS)

Kotlin (Android)

CI/CD (GitHub Actions/CircleCI)

Observability (Sentry)

Testing & Deployment

Education

Degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering

Tools

GitHub Actions

CircleCI

CI/CD tooling

Job description

ITHR Group plc is seeking a hands-on Senior Engineering Manager to lead the delivery of a new travel mobile application. You will drive the backend-for-frontend service layer, governance, and engineering excellence across multiple teams across the UK.

You will provide technical leadership, shape architecture, implement cloud-native microservices, and establish best practices for testing, deployment, and observability. Strong background in Java/Kotlin and mobile platforms is essential.