Head of Mobile Engineering
London, UK (Flexible remote)
£90,000 - £120,000 + equity
We’re looking for an experienced leader to join our engineering leadership and take charge of all aspects of mobile engineering. You’ll be leading a 20+ team of iOS, Android and QA engineers to drive best practices and work with our squads on delivering key company initiatives.
As the head of mobile engineering you will work with the iOS and Android native teams on architecture, team ways of working and tackling technical debt. You will work with our manual and automation QA team on ensuring speed and quality of release.
You will join a 3 person engineering leadership team including the CTO and Head of Backend Engineering to tackle cross company company initiatives vital to the company’s success.
What we're looking for
- 8+ years Android and/or iOS
- 5+ years leading engineering teams
- Extensive mentoring experience
- Solid architecture experience
- Has worked in a role that requires a mix of product and engineering decision making
- Happy to balance relative needs across the business to make quick decisions
- Startup experience
Day to day
- Lead a 20+ team of iOS, Android and QA engineers
- Drive best practices in iOS and Android through the team leads
- Work with our AppCore squad on mobile developer experience to enable us to release features faster, reduce technical debt and increase developer satisfaction
- Work with the QA manual team to ensure QA processes result in a high quality stable app and efficient no-drama weekly releases
- Work with the QA automation team to ensure good quality test coverage and that they are enabling the manual QA team in their goals
- Work as part of a 3 person engineering leadership team to uncover issues across engineering, agree best practices and solve cross company engineering challenges.
- Help leads within the teams grow and push them to achieve excellence within their area
- Own cross company initiatives and work with squads to prioritise and deliver
- Ensure processes that are key to app delivery like localisation are efficient + high quality
- Understand the unique engineering challenges and opportunities in the Android and iOS teams.
- Keep on top of changes in the Android/iOS ecosystem that will impact us like new OS versions and work to mitigate them
- Stay up to date with new opportunities in the Android/iOS ecosystem
Nice to haves
- Automation testing experience
- Experience working with both QA manual and automation teams
- Experience working with both iOS and Android
- B2C consumer app experience
- In app purchase and subscription expertise
- Previous experience in dating and/or social media space
- Worked in leadership in a fast scaling business
- Localisation experience
- Backend experience in any language
Why join Muzz?
We’re a profitable Consumer Tech startup, backed by Y Combinator (S17) and based in London . Join our fast growing team and work on an amazing product that’s changing the world.
A great product
We’re the leading app in this space with over 12 million members worldwide and counting!
Level up quickly
Work with talented, generous people on the kinds of challenges you’ll be proud to share.
A diverse team
We have people from all walks of life all adding their unique perspective. Muslims and non-Muslims, cat lovers and dog lovers. Everyone is welcome!
Meaningful equity
We’re all working together to succeed and everyone on the team gets a slice of the pie.
A hackathon every quarter
We value curiosity and building something wacky (but useful!). Every quarter we organise into random teams and together we build, code, and prototype. Prizes and dinner complete the day!
International travel
We fly the whole team to somewhere amazing twice a year to connect and have fun.
Regular socials
Mini golf, hikes, super competitive Catan nights - we’ve done it all. Maybe you’ll be at the next social?
Generous Holiday / PTO
All full-time members get at least 33 days of holiday, regardless of where they live.
Our hiring process
We pride ourselves on making fast hiring decisions.
Step 1.
Submit your CV.
Step 2.
An initial video call.
Step 3.
Complete a technical exercise.
Step 4.
Interview (in person or remote)
Step 5.
Receive an offer!
Join our team
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