We are looking for an experienced Mobile Engineering Technical Lead to lead the technical delivery and evolution of a large-scale digital application platform in Saudi Arabia.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role combining mobile engineering, backend integration, cloud/DevOps and team leadership. The successful candidate will take ownership of the platform from a technical perspective, guide engineering standards and architecture implementation, and remain actively involved in development, troubleshooting and delivery.
The role requires someone comfortable operating in a complex enterprise environment, working across engineering, architecture, security, cloud and product teams while maintaining a strong focus on quality, scalability and secure software delivery.
Key Responsibilities
Mobile Engineering & Technical Delivery
- Lead the end-to-end technical delivery and evolution of enterprise mobile applications across iOS and Android.
- Remain hands-on with development and technical problem-solving, supporting engineers on complex implementation challenges.
- Drive engineering standards, code quality, maintainability and platform scalability.
- Conduct code reviews and provide technical guidance across mobile and supporting backend services.
- Work closely with architecture teams to translate architectural decisions into practical engineering solutions.
- Resolve complex application, integration and production issues across the platform.
Platform Ownership & Transition
- Take technical ownership of application platforms, engineering assets and associated development environments.
- Coordinate technical handovers and platform transitions, including source-code repositories, CI/CD pipelines, documentation, monitoring and operational processes.
- Support application onboarding and migration into enterprise cloud environments.
- Ensure effective knowledge transfer, documentation and operational readiness throughout platform transitions.
- Establish clear engineering standards and ownership models for long-term platform sustainability.
Backend, APIs & Integration
- Oversee integration between mobile applications and supporting backend / BFF services.
- Work with REST APIs, microservices and enterprise integration patterns.
- Ensure reliable, secure and scalable communication between mobile applications and backend platforms.
- Collaborate with backend, cloud and architecture teams to resolve integration dependencies and technical bottlenecks.
Cloud, DevOps & Engineering Excellence
- Support cloud-based application environments across Azure and/or AWS.
- Drive effective CI/CD, deployment automation and DevOps practices.
- Improve release reliability, automation, observability and engineering efficiency.
- Ensure appropriate monitoring, logging and operational controls are incorporated into the platform.
- Support secure software-supply-chain practices throughout development and deployment.
Security & Quality
- Implement secure authentication and authorization patterns including OAuth2 and OpenID Connect.
- Support certificate management, secrets management, API security and access controls.
- Ensure alignment with Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC) practices.
- Drive remediation of application vulnerabilities and security findings.
- Ensure appropriate automated testing, quality engineering and release-management practices.
- Maintain strong standards around application performance, reliability, security and scalability.
Leadership & Team Development
- Provide technical leadership and mentoring to mobile and software engineers.
- Build engineering capability through coaching, onboarding, technical hiring and knowledge sharing.
- Establish and promote engineering standards, reusable practices and technical communities.
- Coordinate technical planning, releases, priorities and cross-team dependencies.
- Work closely with product, architecture, security and engineering stakeholders in an Agile/Scrum environment.
Required Skills & Experience
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with several years operating in a Technical Lead, Engineering Lead or similar senior technical capacity.
- Strong experience delivering and supporting enterprise-scale mobile applications.
- Strong hands-on knowledge of Swift for iOS and Kotlin for Android.
- Experience with Java / Spring Boot or similar backend technologies.
- Strong understanding of modern mobile architecture and application-design patterns.
- Experience with REST APIs, microservices and Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) architectures.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD, deployment automation and DevOps practices.
- Experience working with Azure and/or AWS cloud environments.
- Strong knowledge of application security including OAuth2, OpenID Connect, certificates, secrets management, encryption and access control.
- Experience with automated testing, observability, performance optimisation and production troubleshooting.
- Proven ability to lead engineers while remaining technically hands-on.
- Experience working across complex enterprise environments with multiple technical stakeholders.
Preferred Experience
- Experience managing application/platform transitions, source-code migrations or technical ownership handovers.
- Hands-on experience onboarding applications into new cloud environments.
- Exposure to IoT, connected products, real-time digital platforms or similarly complex technology ecosystems.
- Experience working in regulated or highly controlled enterprise environments.
- Previous experience building or scaling internal engineering capabilities.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related discipline.
- Strong professional English communication skills.
- Proven experience balancing technical leadership with hands-on engineering delivery.
