About the Role
The Senior Mobile Apps Engineer is responsible for implementing the mobile engineering strategy across native iOS, native Android, and hybrid/cross-platform applications, while accelerating the adoption of AI and Generative AI within customer experiences and software engineering practices. The successful candidate will establish scalable mobile architecture, engineering standards, security and quality practices, observability, performance benchmarks, CI/CD capabilities, and AI-enabled development practices across multiple digital products and engineering squads. A critical aspect of the position is the ability to evaluate where native, hybrid, cross-platform, web-based, and AI-assisted approaches provide the best business and engineering outcomes rather than advocating a single technology stack.
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Responsibilities
- Understanding of Ionic-Angular as hybrid framework for the development of mobile applications.
- Understanding of mobile native architecture either in iOS or Android.
- Understanding of the omnichannel approach with a single code base for web and mobile considering the hybrid framework that we will use.
- Hands-on experience on both technologies.
- AI needs to be embedded as skills in order to speed up development.
- Good communication skills to handle delivery stakeholders and/or solution architects.
- Define LLDs based on HLDs provided by the solution architects.
- Being able to lead a team of experienced developers and being the technical personality to unblock technical challenges in the team.
- Basic knowledge of solutions architecture especially on the digital space, understanding of micro-services and a 3-tier architecture.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or an equivalent technical discipline.
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, working with mobile application development.
- Relevant cloud, architecture, cybersecurity, mobile, or AI certifications are advantageous.
- Demonstrated delivery of large-scale, customer-facing mobile applications.
- Significant experience with native and hybrid/cross-platform mobile architectures.
- Experience leading multiple engineering squads or technically governing a significant engineering portfolio.
- Strong understanding of enterprise SDLC, DevSecOps, testing, security, observability, and production operations.
- Practical experience adopting AI within software products and/or the engineering lifecycle.
Additional Information
The company is more than the UAE’s national airline - we’re shaping the future of global aviation. From our hub in Abu Dhabi, we connect people across continents and cultures, while driving our “Journey 2030” ambition to double our fleet, expand our network and grow our people for a new era of excellence. Join us and become part of a vision where the world is your workplace and extraordinary experiences take flight.
