Senior Mobile Engineering Manager

Mars Athletic Club; Beşiktaş; On-site; TRY 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Mars Athletic Club in Beşiktaş, Türkiye, seeks a Senior Mobile Engineering Manager to lead strategy, architecture, and delivery of our mobile ecosystem across iOS and Android.

You will build and mentor high-performing teams, collaborate with Product, UX/UI, QA, and DevOps, and drive best practices to ensure reliable, scalable, user-centric mobile experiences. Excellent English communication is required.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with mobile apps.
• Leadership experience managing mobile engineering teams.
• Strong knowledge of native mobile technologies (Swift, Kotlin).

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the mobile engineering strategy aligned with product goals.
• Lead, mentor, and grow mobile teams across iOS and Android.
• Establish engineering best practices for architecture, testing, release management.
• Drive scalable mobile architecture and maintainability.
• Own end-to-end mobile SDLC from planning to release and monitoring.
• Improve productivity via CI/CD, automation, and modern workflows.
• Collaborate with Product, UX/UI, QA, DevOps, and stakeholders.
• Ensure high performance, stability, and reliability of mobile apps.
• Coordinate with backend teams for robust API integration.

Skills

Leadership

Mobile engineering

iOS & Android

CI/CD & DevOps

Mentoring

Stakeholder management

English proficiency

Education

Bachelor's in Computer/Software Engineering

Tools

Swift

Kotlin

Job description

As the Senior Mobile Engineering Manager, you will lead the strategy, architecture, delivery, and continuous evolution of our mobile ecosystem while building and mentoring high-performing engineering teams.

You will work closely with Product, UX/UI, QA, DevOps, Data, and business stakeholders to deliver reliable, scalable, and world-class mobile experiences across iOS and Android platforms.

In this role, you will:

• Define and execute the mobile engineering strategy in line with product and business objectives.


• Lead, mentor, and grow high-performing mobile engineering teams across iOS and Android.


• Establish engineering best practices across architecture, code quality, testing, release management, and operational excellence.


• Drive scalable mobile architecture, modularization, platform sustainability, and long-term maintainability.


• Own the end-to-end mobile software development lifecycle, from planning and execution to release, monitoring, and continuous improvement.


• Improve engineering productivity and release confidence through CI/CD, automation, modern development workflows, and strong collaboration with QA.


• Partner with Product Managers and Designers to translate business needs into elegant, high-quality, user-centric mobile experiences.


• Drive quality standards for performance, stability, observability, debugging, and reliability across mobile applications.


• Collaborate with backend and platform teams to ensure robust API integration, scalability, and seamless end-to-end delivery.


• Manage technical roadmaps, engineering capacity, delivery risks, and stakeholder communication.


• Foster a culture of technical excellence, ownership, innovation, and continuous learning.


• Support hiring, succession planning, coaching, and performance management across the mobile engineering organization.


• Evaluate emerging technologies, AI-assisted development practices, and mobile trends to continuously improve engineering effectiveness.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related field.


• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including strong hands-on experience in mobile application development.


• Proven leadership experience managing engineering teams and leading technical delivery in fast-paced environments.


• Strong understanding of native mobile technologies, architectures, and engineering practices across iOS (Swift) and Android (Kotlin).


• Strong understanding of mobile UX principles, Apple Human Interface Guidelines, Material Design principles, and Android platform conventions.


• Experience designing scalable mobile architectures and building maintainable engineering platforms.


• Strong knowledge of software engineering best practices, including testing strategies, code quality, version control workflows, and release processes.


• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, cloud environments, DevOps principles, and modern engineering productivity practices.


• Strong understanding of mobile application performance, stability, security, and software quality.


• Experience building and operating consumer-facing, high-traffic, high-availability digital products.


• Strong collaboration skills with Product, Design, QA, and cross-functional business teams.


• Passion for coaching engineers and developing future technical leaders.


• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.


• Professional proficiency in English.

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with observability, experimentation, and data-informed product development.


• Knowledge of AI-assisted software development tools and engineering productivity solutions.


• Experience in fitness, wellness, or digital consumer businesses.

Why Join MAC?

• Shape the future of one of Türkiye’s leading fitness technology ecosystems.


• Build products used by hundreds of thousands of members every day.


• Lead talented engineering teams with meaningful ownership and autonomy.


• Work in a product-focused, innovation-driven environment with modern technologies.


• Play a key role in MAC’s digital transformation journey while creating meaningful impact on people’s lives.