Lead Mobile Engineer (iOS & Android)

We are looking for an exceptional Lead Mobile Engineer with extensive production experience across both iOS and Android platforms to lead the design, architecture, and evolution of large-scale, customer-facing mobile experiences.

The ideal candidate has deep, authoritative expertise in Swift, UIKit, SwiftUI, Design Systems, and modern iOS architecture, combined with a proven track record of technical leadership, setting engineering direction, and driving scalability, performance, reliability, and engineering excellence across mobile organizations.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, and delivery of scalable, high-quality native iOS applications using Swift, UIKit, and SwiftUI
• Define and drive the technical vision for modern iOS architecture, modular components, reusable frameworks, and engineering best practices across the mobile organization
• Own the strategy and evolution of Design Systems and reusable UI components, enabling consistent customer experiences and accelerating development efficiency across multiple product teams
• Lead the delivery of complex, high-impact customer-facing features that integrate with backend APIs, microservices, personalization, loyalty, product, cart, checkout, and other enterprise platforms
• Partner strategically with Product, UX/Design, Android, Backend, QA, Architecture, and Platform leadership to shape and deliver end-to-end solutions aligned with business objectives
• Collaborate closely with the Mobile Platform team to define, adopt, and enhance shared frameworks, foundational capabilities, architecture standards, developer tooling, and common services
• Provide technical leadership across the complete SDLC, including requirements analysis, technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and production support
• Define and champion the roadmap for CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, build processes, release automation, and developer productivity improvements
• Set the standard for clean, maintainable, secure, and testable code with strong unit and UI test coverage
• Lead code reviews, technical design reviews, architecture discussions, and drive the creation of high-quality engineering documentation
• Proactively identify, prioritize, and drive the resolution of technical debt while leading improvements in application performance, scalability, reliability, security, accessibility, and maintainability
• Mentor and grow senior and mid-level engineers, share technical knowledge, and establish strong engineering standards and a culture of excellence across the mobile organization
  
  

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience developing native iOS applications, with substantial production experience across both iOS and Android
• 1+ years of demonstrated technical leadership on large-scale mobile initiatives
• Deep expertise in Swift, UIKit, and SwiftUI, along with the iOS SDK
• Proven track record of designing, building, and evolving Design Systems, reusable UI components, and shared libraries/frameworks adopted across multiple teams
• Advanced understanding of iOS application architecture, design patterns, modularization, dependency management, and separation of concerns, with the ability to define architectural direction at scale
• Expertise in designing applications that integrate with REST APIs and distributed backend services
• Strong command of networking, concurrency, and data persistence, along with application lifecycle, memory management, and performance optimization
• Advanced skills in unit testing, UI testing, and code quality practices, including Git and automated build/release processes
• Solid experience defining and improving CI/CD pipelines and mobile application deployment processes
• Deep understanding of SDLC, Agile development practices, and production support for large-scale applications
• Demonstrated success partnering with Platform teams and cross-functional engineering leadership to deliver shared technical capabilities
• Strong ability to troubleshoot and lead resolution of complex production issues using application monitoring, analytics, crash reporting, and observability tools
• Proven experience mentoring engineers and establishing engineering standards across teams
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence technical direction and effectively convey technical decisions, trade-offs, risks, and dependencies to executive, technical, and non-technical stakeholders
  
  

Nice to have

• Extensive background in leading large-scale retail, e-commerce, or high-traffic consumer mobile applications
• Proven experience defining modular iOS architectures and leading migration/evolution of large existing codebases
• Demonstrated success driving engineering excellence initiatives and technical strategy across mobile organizations
  
  

We offer

• International projects with top brands
• Work with global teams of highly skilled, diverse peers
• Healthcare benefits
• Employee financial programs
• Paid time off and sick leave
• Upskilling, reskilling and certification courses
• Unlimited access to the LinkedIn Learning library and 22,000+ courses
• Global career opportunities
• Volunteer and community involvement opportunities
• EPAM Employee Groups
• Award-winning culture recognized by Glassdoor, Newsweek and LinkedIn
  
  

EPAM is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Show more Show less