Mobile Engineering Lead

Job Objective:

As a Mobile Engineering Lead, you will define the technical vision and lead the development of world-class mobile applications across Android and iOS platforms. This role is responsible for building a high-performing engineering team, establishing scalable architectures, and delivering seamless user experiences.

We are seeking a strategic and hands-on leader who can balance technical excellence with people management, drive engineering best practices, and continuously evolve development processes to support business growth.

Responsibilities:

Team Leadership & Management:

• Oversee the day-to-day management of the Android, iOS teams, including task delegation, technical guidance, and mentorship.
• Build and cultivate a positive, high-performing, and effective engineering team.

Technical Planning & Architecture:

• Lead the overall technical design and technology selection for our mobile platforms.
• Define and enforce unified development standards and create a strategic roadmap for architectural evolution, ensuring the scalability, stability, and forward-looking nature of our tech stack.

Performance & Quality Assurance:

• Spearhead efforts to tackle critical technical challenges, leading initiatives in performance optimization (e.g., app startup time, UI smoothness, memory management), stability improvements, and overall user experience enhancement.
• Establish and refine a comprehensive quality assurance system.

Engineering Excellence & Process Optimization:

• Drive engineering efficiency and excellence within the team.
• Explore and implement best practices such as CI/CD, automated testing, and proactive monitoring/alerting.
• Continuously optimize and evolve current development processes and collaboration models.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years of experience in mobile development (Android & iOS), with at least 3 years in a technical management or team leadership role in fintech, digital payments or banking.
• Expertise in either native Android (Kotlin/Java) and iOS (Swift/Objective-C) development, coupled with a deep understanding of the other.
• Deep familiarity with mainstream architectural patterns like MVVM, understanding the core design principles beyond just practical application.
• A demonstrable understanding of the design principles behind popular open-source components (e.g., OkHttp, Lottie, Glide, AFNetworking) is highly valued.
• Familiarity with financial regulations in Mexico (CNBV) is an advantage.
• Mandatory: Native or fluency in Spanish and English.
• Preferred: Conversational in Chinese (Mandarin).
• Adapt to cross-cultural and time zone international working environments.
• Excellent communication skills, optimistic and upward, strong self-motivation, ability to withstand pressure, and self-reflection consciousness.
• Optimistic and upward, strong self motivation, ability to withstand pressure, and self reflection consciousness.

Perks

Labor Hours: Monday to Friday 9:00 am to 6:00 pm (time availability)

Modality: Full-time, Payroll, Hybrid in Mexico City (3 days onsite)

Salary: $155,000 MXN Gross Monthly

Open Positions: 1

Competitive salary

Major Medical Insurance: 100% coverage for the employee and 50% for dependents
Life Insurance
30 days of Christmas bonus (aguinaldo)
80% vacation premium on 12 vacation days, plus 1 PTO day per month
Savings Fund: 13%
Grocery vouchers (capped)

Annual performance bonus:

• 10% for individual contributors
• 15% for managers
• Calculated based on both individual performance and company performance

About the company

The company is Mexico's leading digital payments and commerce platform, dedicated to empowering businesses to interact and transact more effectively with their customers through innovative technologies and best-in-class service. Founded in 2012, the company has built a comprehensive ecosystem of financial solutions that help small and mid-sized businesses accept digital payments, sell online, access credit, and streamline their operations.

Driven by a mission to expand financial inclusion, the company enables millions of merchants-many of whom previously operated in cash-to participate in the digital economy with secure, reliable, and easy-to-use tools. Today, the company is recognized as one of the most valuable fintech brands in Mexico and continues to drive digital transformation across the country.

Location: Hybrid in Mexico City