IT & Software

Engineering Manager, Apps

Economist Group

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

As Mobile Engineering Manager, you drive the mobile platform's health and delivery while mentoring a team of iOS and Android engineers. You work cross-functionally with product, design and engineering leadership to ship reliable, high-quality mobile experiences. You balance hands-on coding with people leadership and strategic roadmap input. Your work enables scalable, consumer-facing apps and aligns mobile work with business goals.

Pay / Benefits
  • pension or 401(k) plan
  • private health insurance
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Work From Anywhere
  • generous annual leave and parental leave
  • free access to The Economist content
Responsibilities
  • Lead and grow the iOS and Android engineering team with day-to-day people management and career development
  • Stay hands-on: review code, influence architecture, and contribute when needed
  • Own delivery for the mobile team: planning, prioritisation, and removing blockers with product
  • Set and uphold standards for code quality, testing, performance, accessibility and release practices across platforms
  • Collaborate with Product, Design, QA and backend teams to turn roadmaps into a mobile plan
  • Clarify and refine product requirements with stakeholders before and during build
  • Use metrics (engagement, retention, subscriber conversion, crash-free rate) to guide prioritisation
  • Improve engineering practices: CI/CD, release cadence, crash/performance monitoring, app store operations
  • Recruit, interview and onboard new mobile engineers as the team grows
  • Represent mobile engineering in leadership discussions on technical strategy and cross-team dependencies
Key requirements
  • Proven experience as an engineering manager or tech lead with mobile engineering teams
  • Hands-on background in native mobile development (iOS/Swift and/or Android/Kotlin)
  • Track record of shipping and operating consumer-facing mobile apps at scale
  • Experience balancing technical contribution with people leadership and delivery ownership
  • Strong understanding of mobile engineering fundamentals: performance, offline/networking, accessibility, testing, and CI/CD for mobile
  • Excellent communication skills with cross-functional teams and ability to explain trade-offs
  • Excellent communication
  • Strong product sense
  • Collaborative mindset
  • Native mobile development (iOS/Swift, Android/Kotlin)
  • Code review and architectural discussion
  • CI/CD for mobile

Reference: WJ-747_31166359 · Posted 01 Nov 2026

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