Mobile Engineering Team Lead

Tiko; Portugal; Teletrabalho; EUR 29 000 - 44 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Benefits and allowances tailored to你的地

Flexible work arrangements

Personal development budget

Unlimited holiday

Impactful product

Resumo da oferta

Tiko, organização sem fins lucrativos sediada na África, procura um Mobile Engineering Team Lead para liderar a equipa de engenharia móvel, com trabalho remoto

O candidato ideal possui experiência em Kotlin, Firebase e inglês excelente, com foco em qualidade, escalabilidade e impacto social através de tecnologia.

Qualificações

• Experiência com desenvolvimento móvel e princípios de design, desenvolvimento e manutenção de software.
• Você é proativo, busca sempre a melhor solução.
• Experiência em trabalhar tanto em equipe quanto sozinho.
• Você deseja escrever código com qualidade e escalável, mantendo padrões e boa documentação.
• Excelência em inglês (oral e escrito).

Responsabilidades

• Coordena o trabalho da equipa de engenheiros móveis e participa de projetos transversais de desenvolvimento.
• Mantém e desenvolve novas features na plataforma de software.
• Aplica princípios de engenharia de software no design, desenvolvimento, teste e avaliação.
• Garante que o software desenvolvido seja seguro e proteja dados.

Conhecimentos

Problem solving

Teamwork

Quality-focused development

Independent working

English proficiency

Ferramentas

Kotlin

Firebase

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Mobile Engineering Team Lead

Salary: €2,620 - 3,930 monthly

Empresa : Tiko

Tipo de Emprego : Periodo Integral Remote / Work from Home

Descrição do Emprego - Mobile Engineering Team Lead

Do you have experience creating and maintaining software that enables mobile apps to function? Are you looking to utilize your skillset whilst having a positive impact with tech? Read on to find out more about our Mobile Engineering Team Lead position!

About Tiko

Tiko is an African nonprofit committed to strengthening the potential and resilience of adolescent girls across Africa. We address the “Triple Threat” of unintended pregnancy, HIV infection, and sexual and gender-based violence by building local health ecosystems that provide stigma‑free, no‑cost, quality‑assured services.

Our model brings together key local actors: community‑based organizations (CBO) with peer mobilisers who act as health companions to girls; public and private health clinics that deliver care; and retail partners that redeem Tiko Miles -our behavior‑change incentive programme that rewards service uptake and feedback.

We invest in partners by strengthening CBO capacity, training frontline workers and providers, supporting clinic quality improvement, and compensating partners based on performance. Our technology platform connects all actors by enabling referrals, verifying service delivery, facilitating payments, and generating real‑time data.

Tiko operates in six countries: Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Burkina Faso, South Africa, and Nigeria, with additional offices in Portugal, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. For a clear overview of our work, we recommend watching this short video .

Globally, our team consists of +250 enthusiastic, international colleagues. Whether you are working from our biggest office in Nairobi, the fast-growing office in South Africa, or from home, our people are young, and our culture is global and dynamic. Our work environment is fast‑paced, informal, and friendly.

For this position, we are happily looking for candidates currently based in Portugal, Kenya and South Africa.

The Job

The Mobile Engineering Team Lead is responsible for management tasks in addition to creating and maintaining the software that enables our platform to function.

• You coordinate the work that the mobile engineer team needs to do. You are actively involved in cross‑team projects that involve development.


• You are responsible for the maintenance and development of new features on our software platform.


• You apply software engineering principles to the design, development, maintenance, testing, and evaluation of our software.


• You ensure that the software you develop is secure and safe when it comes to data protection.

About You

Having experience with mobile development and the principles of design, development maintenance, and more, you're excited by technology and passionate about utilizing it for social impact.

Requirements

• You have technical experience with Kotlin and firebase.


• You’re a natural problem solver and naturally logical - you are always pioneering for the best solution.


• You’ve experienced working in a team environment, as well as independently.


• You don’t want to just write code, you want to make it with quality and scalable


• You have excellent English Skills.

Recruitment Process

Introductory call with recruiter | First Interview with Tech Team | Technical Challenge | Final interview with the Tech Team

The Rewards

The gross monthly salary brackets for this position are:

Kenya: Ksh317,468 - Ksh476,201 (x12)

South Africa: R56,419 - R84,628 (x12)

Portugal: €2,620 - €3,930 (x14)

Your final salary will be determined based on your experience and alignment with your future colleagues.

In addition to your monthly salary, we offer you:

• Benefits and allowances tailored to your location


• Flexible work arrangements, including remote or hybrid options


• A personal development budget to invest in your professional growth


• Unlimited holiday days to use as you see fit - just coordinate with your team and take the time you need to recharge


• The opportunity to shape a growing, impactful product and leave your mark on how we work


• A culture built on trust - we believe you’ll do your best without the need for unnecessary rules or micromanagement