Innova Solutions
Mobile Engineer
London
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Senior Engineering Manager, Mobile Platform & Service Layer
24 Months
London, UK
About the Role
We are seeking a skilled, hands-on Senior Engineering Manager to lead the implementation of the mobile application service layer (Backend-for-Frontend (BFF)) for a next-generation iOS and Android travel application. This role will also be responsible for providing technical governance across engineering teams and overseeing key aspects of programme delivery, vendor management, and stakeholder engagement.
As a technical leader, you will provide people leadership, engineering direction, and deep technical expertise while remaining actively engaged in the delivery of software solutions. You will work closely with engineering teams to design, develop, test, troubleshoot, deploy, document, and support the software and systems that power customer-facing applications, business applications, and internal tools.
The successful candidate will demonstrate a balance of technical excellence, leadership capability, operational discipline, and delivery focus.
The Ideal Leader Will Be
- Willing and able to express new ideas, concerns, and opinions directly to both their immediate team and broader stakeholder groups.
- Proactive, enthusiastic, flexible, and results-driven.
- Adaptable and eager to learn new technologies, maximizing their value and potential within the organization.
- An effective collaborator and communicator who can build strong relationships across technical and non-technical teams.
Key Responsibilities
Software Engineering
- Remain a hands-on engineering leader with expertise in developing complex, large-scale enterprise applications.
- Own the technical direction and engineering delivery of the Mobile Service Layer (BFF) and associated platform capabilities.
- Take responsibility for technical aspects of software engineering across assigned applications, including solution design, prototyping, architecture reviews, and software development.
- Partner with Product Managers, Technical Product Managers, business stakeholders, and engineering teams to deliver platform enhancements and strategic initiatives.
- Establish and uphold engineering best practices across teams, including code reviews, testing standards, build and release processes, technical governance, and continuous improvement activities.
- Enable teams to automate demand-driven, scalable deployments across development, testing, staging, and production environments.
- Apply deep technical knowledge and industry best practices to identify complex problems, evaluate trade-offs, and recommend effective solutions.
- Collaborate with engineering leadership to define technical roadmaps, implementation strategies, platform standards, and software maturity improvements.
- Drive engineering excellence through quality-focused development practices, automation, observability, and operational readiness.
- Ensure scalable, secure, resilient, and maintainable software solutions are delivered consistently.
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Leadership & People Management
- Provide direct leadership to software engineers, senior engineers, contractors, and technical contributors.
- Provide dotted-line leadership and influence across broader engineering teams supporting the mobile programme.
- Promote, empower, and embody servant leadership principles.
- Create a culture of accountability, ownership, innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.
- Foster an environment of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, coaching, constructive feedback, and performance metrics.
- Take accountability for the technical capability and maturity of the engineering team.
- Mentor and guide engineers to achieve their full potential while supporting career growth and professional development.
- Identify strengths, opportunities, and development needs across team members and create actionable growth plans.
- Recruit, attract, and retain top engineering talent.
- Partner with peers and stakeholders to ensure engineering teams remain engaged, productive, and aligned to business objectives.
Programme Governance & Delivery
- Provide technical governance across the mobile application programme, ensuring alignment of engineering decisions, architecture, delivery approach, and quality standards.
- Manage key technical dependencies across multiple teams, vendors, and external partners.
- Work closely with Product, Architecture, Security, Platform, Operations, and Delivery teams to ensure successful programme execution.
- Drive transparency and accountability through effective planning, reporting, risk management, and stakeholder communication.
- Ensure technical risks, issues, and dependencies are proactively identified, tracked, and managed.
- Support planning activities, delivery forecasting, release readiness, and operational transition activities.
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Essential Criteria
Education & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline. Advanced degree preferred.
- 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including significant experience developing applications using Java and Kotlin.
- 2+ years of engineering leadership experience within a complex technology environment, or equivalent leadership experience.
- Proven track record delivering enterprise-grade technology solutions and integrating cross-platform systems within Agile product organizations.
- Experience working within Agile software delivery environments, including Scrum, Kanban, iterative development, and user-story-based planning.
- Demonstrated ability to prioritize effectively and manage multiple competing priorities within fast-paced environments.
- Hands-on experience with software quality practices, including automated functional testing, integration testing, performance testing, and technical documentation.
- Strong experience leading customer-facing digital platform initiatives throughout the complete software delivery lifecycle.
Essential Technical Skills
- Deep expertise in software engineering, application architecture, and microservices development using:
- Java 17+
- Kotlin
- Spring Boot
- Gradle build automation
- Strong understanding of:
- Microservices architecture
- RESTful APIs
- Event-driven architectures
- Secure software development practices
- Scalable distributed systems
- Deep experience implementing observability strategies, including:
- Logging
- Monitoring
- Alerting
- Performance analysis
- Production diagnostics
- Experience with industry-standard observability and monitoring platforms such as:
- Sentry (preferred)
- Datadog
- New Relic
- Grafana
- OpenTelemetry
- Strong knowledge of cloud-native application development and deployment practices.
- Deep understanding of CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery practices, including:
- GitHub Actions
- CircleCI
- Automated deployment pipelines
- Infrastructure automation
- Release automation
- Proven ability to deliver software rapidly and reliably through robust engineering, automation, testing, and operational practices.
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