Senior Engineering Manager - Mobile (Contract)

Job Description

Travel & Lifestyle Services face the challenge of delivering seamless mobile experiences that meet high expectations for reliability and performance. As a Senior Engineering Manager - Mobile, working in a hybrid mode in London, you will shape the next generation of travel applications for iOS and Android, balancing technical depth with delivery management across multiple teams. The mandate is to build a collaborative engineering culture that consistently ships quality products. The work matters because every release directly impacts how clients experience travel and lifestyle services.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test and deliver production mobile application features, acting as a hands-on engineer in Swift/iOS or Kotlin/Android
• Contribute directly to technical solutions and mobile application architecture, setting and upholding high engineering standards for code quality, testing, performance, reliability and maintainability
• Provide technical leadership through code reviews, design discussions and hands-on problem solving, helping the team make pragmatic technology and architecture decisions
• Support reliable and frequent delivery of mobile releases to the Apple App Store and Google Play Store
• Lead, coach and develop a team of engineers, creating a high-performing and collaborative engineering culture
• Provide clear technical direction while enabling engineers to take ownership and grow
• Own engineering delivery against product roadmaps, commitments and milestones, identifying risks, dependencies and blockers early and driving them to resolution
• Coordinate delivery across engineering, product, design and other teams in a complex enterprise environment
• Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior leadership
• Build strong working relationships across teams and drive alignment when priorities or viewpoints differ

Requirements

• Deep, current development experience with iOS/Swift or Android/Kotlin, comfortable spending significant time writing production code
• Extensive experience building and launching multiple production mobile applications through the Apple App Store and/or Google Play Store
• Strong experience designing mobile solutions and contributing directly to application architecture and engineering decisions
• Significant experience leading and developing engineering teams, ideally 10-20+ engineers in complex technology organisations
• A strong record of delivering complex technology initiatives, managing roadmaps, dependencies, risks and execution across multiple teams
• Exceptional ability to communicate clearly, influence decisions, resolve ambiguity and collaborate effectively across engineering, product, business and senior stakeholders
• Significant professional software engineering experience, with deep expertise in mobile application development
• Strong commercial experience with Swift/iOS and/or Kotlin/Android
• Demonstrated experience taking mobile products from development through production launch and ongoing operation
• Strong understanding of modern mobile engineering practices, including automated testing, CI/CD, observability, performance and production reliability
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience