Mobile Engineering Lead

We're excited to be partnering with a leading institution in the UAE that is building a digital-first, AI-enabled financial services organisation from the ground up. This is a unique opportunity to join at an early stage and help shape the technology, data, and platform foundations of a business with significant institutional backing and long-term ambition. If you're passionate about mobile engineering, customer experience, and building world-class digital products, we'd love to hear from you.

As a Mobile Engineering Lead, you will define and lead the digital channels that customers interact with every day, including mobile apps, web platforms, and next-generation AI-powered customer experiences.

This role will own the technical direction, architecture, engineering standards, release strategy, and performance of customer-facing digital channels. You'll lead a team responsible for delivering highly scalable, secure, and reliable consumer-grade experiences while working closely with AI, Platform, Architecture, Product, and Design teams.

What you'll be responsible for

• Leading mobile and web engineering teams across iOS, Android, and web platforms.
• Defining channel architecture, coding standards, and engineering best practices.
• Building secure, high-performing customer experiences with a focus on reliability, scalability, and usability.
• Driving rapid and safe releases using CI/CD, feature flags, progressive delivery, and automated testing.
• Delivering AI-powered conversational experiences, including chat and voice interactions.
• Establishing observability, performance monitoring, and customer journey analytics.
• Managing app store releases, rollout strategies, and production operations.
• Building and developing a high-performing engineering team.

What we're looking for

• 8+ years of software engineering experience across mobile and web technologies. Cross platform experience.
• Experience leading engineering teams and setting technical direction.
• Strong background building and operating large-scale consumer-facing digital products within financial services, fintech, or other highly regulated environments.
• Expertise in technologies such as Swift, Kotlin, React Native, Flutter, Kotlin Multiplatform, React, Next.js, and TypeScript .
• Strong experience with CI/CD, feature flags, staged rollouts, and modern release engineering practices.
• Experience designing secure mobile applications using authentication, session management, certificate pinning, and secure device storage.
• Exposure to AI-powered, conversational, or agent-assisted customer experiences is highly desirable.
• Comfortable using AI-assisted development tools within modern engineering environments.
• Fintech, banking or financial services experience if preferred.