the company is the leading food and grocery delivery platform across the MENA region, serving customers in 9 countries. Our mobile apps are the primary interface for hundreds of thousands of daily orders — and the engineering behind them directly shapes how millions of people eat, shop, and experience convenience. We're part of the Delivery Hero network spanning 50+ countries.
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We're looking for a Mobile Engineering Manager to lead one of our mobile engineering teams building the the company consumer experience on iOS and Android. You'll own the delivery of features that millions of users interact with daily — from discovery and ordering to real-time tracking and payments. This is a hands-on leadership role. You won't be writing code daily, but you'll be close enough to the codebase to make informed architectural decisions, unblock your engineers, and maintain high technical standards. You'll lead a team of 6–10 mobile engineers and partner closely with product, design, and backend teams.
We practice eXtreme Programming (XP) principles — including pair programming, TDD, and continuous delivery. If you haven't worked in an XP environment before, that's fine — what matters is that you believe quality enables speed and you're excited to lead in this environment.
Responsibilities Include:
- Lead a team of 6–10 mobile engineers (iOS and Android) through planning, building, and shipping customer-facing features.
- Own mobile release quality — drive testing strategy, monitor crash rates and performance metrics, and maintain release cadence.
- Partner with product managers and designers to shape what gets built, balancing user impact with technical feasibility.
- Make architectural decisions on mobile patterns (modularization, dependency injection, reactive patterns, navigation architecture).
- Coach and develop engineers through regular 1:1s, pairing sessions, and career development conversations.
- Manage cross-team dependencies with backend, platform, and infrastructure teams.
- Contribute to mobile engineering standards and practices across the company.
Qualifications:
- 6+ years of hands-on mobile engineering experience (iOS, Android, or cross-platform).
- 2+ years leading and managing mobile engineering teams (hiring, performance, career development).
- Deep understanding of mobile app architecture.
- Experience shipping mobile apps at scale (100K+ DAU) with a focus on performance, reliability, and user experience.
- Strong automated testing mindset with experience in CI/CD for mobile.
- Comfort working in a fast-paced, iterative environment.
Bonus Skills:
- Experience with XP practices (TDD, pair/mob programming, trunk-based development).
- Familiarity with Domain-Driven Design (DDD) or event-driven architecture.
- Experience with Swift/SwiftUI and Kotlin/Jetpack Compose.
- Background in e-commerce, delivery, or marketplace mobile apps.
- AWS or cloud platform experience.
- Experience working across time zones or with distributed teams.
This role is for you if you get energy from growing engineers, care about mobile craft, and are comfortable making technical calls.
