Mobile Engineering Manager - iOS/Android Lead

theeconomistgroup; Indonesia; On-site; IDR 1,611,748,000 - 2,328,080,000; Full time

Job summary

The Economist Group is looking for a Mobile Engineering Manager to lead our iOS and Android engineering teams and shape the future of our mobile platform. This player-coach role combines people leadership with hands-on coding, requiring collaboration with product, design, QA and backend teams to deliver a reliable, scalable mobile experience that supports millions of users worldwide.

You will mentor engineers, drive code quality, and uphold release practices while aligning mobile strategy with

Qualifications

• Proven experience as an engineering manager or tech lead with direct people-management responsibility for mobile engineers.
• Strong hands-on background in native mobile development (iOS/Swift and/or Android/Kotlin), comfortable reviewing code and discussing architecture in both ecosystems.
• Track record of shipping and operating consumer-facing mobile apps at scale, including release management and app store submission processes.
• Experience balancing hands-on technical contribution with people leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of iOS and Android engineers, providing day-to-day management, mentorship and career development.
• Stay hands-on: review code, contribute to architectural decisions, and step into implementation when it matters.
• Own delivery for the mobile team: planning, prioritisation, and removing blockers in partnership with product management.
• Set and uphold engineering standards for code quality, testing, performance, accessibility and release practices across both platforms.
• Partner with Product, Design, QA and backend/platform teams to turn roadmap priorities into a well-sequenced, technically sound mobile plan.
• Get hands-on with product and business requirements: ask questions, spot gaps, and help refine specs before and during build, rather than treating them as fixed inputs from the product.
• Use business and product metrics (engagement, retention, subscriber conversion, crash-free rate, and similar) to inform prioritisation, trade‑off decisions, and what "done" looks like for a feature.
• Drive improvements to the team's engineering practices: CI/CD, release cadence, crash/performance monitoring, and app store operations.
• Recruit, interview and onboard new mobile engineers as the team grows.
• Represent mobile engineering in broader engineering leadership discussions, including technical strategy and cross-team dependencies.

Skills

People management

Mobile development

Code review

Architecture decisions

Job description

The Economist Group is looking for a Mobile Engineering Manager to lead our iOS and Android engineering teams and shape the future of our mobile platform. This player-coach role combines people leadership with hands-on coding, requiring collaboration with product, design, QA and backend teams to deliver a reliable, scalable mobile experience that supports millions of users worldwide.

You will mentor engineers, drive code quality, and uphold release practices while aligning mobile strategy with