Lead Mobile developer

<p><strong>Lead Mobile Developer</strong></p><p><br></p><p>📍 Can be based in either Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, or Bristols – 2 days per week </p><p> 💰 £67,000 – £76,000 + comprehensive benefits</p><p> 🕒 Permanent | Full-time</p><p><br></p><p>A growing digital consultancy is looking for a Lead Mobile Developer to join its Software Engineering practice at Lead Consultant level.</p><p><br></p><p>This is a hands-on leadership role within multidisciplinary teams delivering transformative mobile solutions across public and private sector clients. You’ll shape mobile strategy, lead architecture and delivery, and play a key role in ensuring applications are scalable, secure, high-performing, and aligned to real user needs.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>The Role</strong></p><p>You will:</p><ul><li>Lead the technical design and delivery of complex mobile applications</li><li>Drive modern mobile architecture patterns (e.g., MVVM, Clean Architecture)</li><li>Make informed technology decisions across native and cross-platform solutions</li><li>Mentor and guide senior and mid-level engineers</li><li>Collaborate with clients, designers, and stakeholders to translate requirements into robust mobile solutions</li><li>Ensure engineering best practices across security, accessibility, offline capability, and store compliance</li><li>Support bids and proposals, articulating mobile strategy and technical direction</li><li>Represent technical excellence in workshops, discovery sessions, and client engagements</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>What We’re Looking For</strong></p><ul><li>Proven experience as a Lead or Senior Mobile Engineer delivering complex mobile apps</li><li>Strong native development expertise in Swift (iOS) and Kotlin (Android)</li><li>Experience with Flutter (Dart) and cross-platform development (including state management and platform channels)</li><li>Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Bitrise, Fastlane, GitHub Actions)</li><li>Experience integrating RESTful APIs, GraphQL, Firebase, and local persistence solutions (Room, CoreData, SQLite)</li><li>Knowledge of release lifecycles, automated testing (unit, UI, integration), and beta distribution tools (TestFlight, App Center)</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>Benefits</strong></p><ul><li>Competitive, transparent salary</li><li>25 days holiday + UK public holidays</li><li>Contributory pension (6% employer / 2% employee)</li><li>Life assurance, critical illness cover, death-in-service cover</li><li>Flexible benefits package (private medical/dental options, additional pension, extra holiday purchase, wellbeing funds, charity contributions, tree planting options)</li><li>Volunteer days</li><li>Cycle-to-work scheme</li><li>Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme</li><li>Season ticket loans</li><li>Access to retail and lifestyle discounts</li><li>Wellbeing and financial support sessions</li><li>Relocation support up to £8,000</li></ul>

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