Remote Mobile Engineering Lead — Scale & Mentor Teams

Explore Group; Cape Town; Remote; ZAR 900,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Explore Group is seeking an Engineering Lead (Mobile) in Cape Town or remote SA to drive the technical direction, architecture, and end-to-end delivery of core mobile applications and backend integrations. You will lead and mentor a team of engineers while staying hands-on and championing modern software craftsmanship.

You will collaborate closely with Product and design teams on complex global rollouts, balancing feature delivery with technical debt and scalable architecture across native or

Qualifications

• 8+ years of commercial software engineering experience.
• 3+ years leading technical teams or acting as tech lead.
• Experience building scalable mobile solutions across native or cross‑platform environments.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical direction, architecture, and end-to-end delivery of core mobile apps and backend service integrations.
• Lead and mentor engineers while remaining hands-on in code.
• Collaborate with Product and design teams on complex global rollouts.

Skills

Mentoring engineers

Hands-on leadership

Mobile architecture

RESTful API design

CI/CD & DevOps

Agile/Scrum collaboration

Job description

Explore Group is seeking an Engineering Lead (Mobile) in Cape Town or remote SA to drive the technical direction, architecture, and end-to-end delivery of core mobile applications and backend integrations. You will lead and mentor a team of engineers while staying hands-on and championing modern software craftsmanship.

You will collaborate closely with Product and design teams on complex global rollouts, balancing feature delivery with technical debt and scalable architecture across native or