Senior Mobile Platforms Lead - iOS & Android

Expedia, Inc.; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Expedia Group is seeking a Senior Manager of Mobile Engineering to lead the native iOS and Android platforms, guiding architecture, release practices, and observability. This role shapes mobile strategy across multiple product domains and partners with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, scalable experiences for travelers.

You will build a high-performing mobile organization, drive capacity planning, and mentor engineers, while safely integrating AI-enabled capabilities to improve

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of relevant professional experience and 3+ years of people-management experience leading mobile engineering teams delivering production applications through the App Store and Google Play.
• Experience owning engineering outcomes across multiple services or a substantial mobile technology domain, including architecture, roadmap delivery, reliability, operational performance, maintenance, and technical investment.
• Strong knowledge of mobile software development across iOS, Android, and shared mobile capabilities, including system design, low-level design, API design, data modeling, testing, deployment, release management, and production operations.
• Experience developing technical strategy, managing capacity and staffing, influencing cross-functional stakeholders, and leading teams through complex engineering and product initiatives.
• Familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world products, including safely integrating AI-enabled capabilities into mobile experiences or engineering platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead mobile engineering teams delivering reliable, scalable native applications and shared mobile platform capabilities across multiple product domains.
• Set technical direction for mobile architecture, including system design, low-level design, API design, data modeling, integration patterns, and maintainable implementation practices across iOS and Android.
• Build and develop a high-performing, distributed engineering organization through hiring, performance management, mentoring, career development, skill planning, and clear alignment to customer and business outcomes.
• Partner with Product, Design, Architecture, Quality, Operations, App Release, Security, and business teams to shape roadmaps, manage dependencies, and deliver measurable product and platform outcomes.
• Establish predictable release and operational practices across the App Store and Google Play, improving software quality, observability, release safety, incident response, performance, accessibility, and customer-impacting reliability.
• Safely integrate and operate AI/ML-enabled solutions that improve engineering and product outcomes, applying AI-driven tools and workflows appropriately within mobile experiences and engineering platforms.

Skills

Mobile engineering leadership

iOS & Android

Architecture design

API design

Data modeling

Release management

Observability

AI/ML concepts

People management

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Job description

Expedia Group is seeking a Senior Manager of Mobile Engineering to lead the native iOS and Android platforms, guiding architecture, release practices, and observability. This role shapes mobile strategy across multiple product domains and partners with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, scalable experiences for travelers.

You will build a high-performing mobile organization, drive capacity planning, and mentor engineers, while safely integrating AI-enabled capabilities to improve