Hybrid Engineering Team Lead – Mobile

at Semperis

• Job title: Engineering Team Lead – Mobile
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Azure, Cloud, Google Cloud Platform, Kotlin, Microservices, React, React Native, SDLC, Swift
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Toronto, Canada

About the role

• Engineering Team Lead supervising mobile software engineering team at Semperis, focusing on app development and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Recruit, manage, coach, develop, and retain mobile engineering talent. Build and maintain a strong team culture focused on accountability, growth, and continuous learning.
• Lead ongoing mobile app development, including architecture, technical analysis, design, and implementation, following Agile SDLC and Scrum methodologies. Collaborate closely with Product Management, UX/UI, and other engineering teams to ensure successful feature delivery, deployment to the App Store and Google Play, and post-release operations.
• Facilitate the evolution of mobile product architecture, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and optimal performance. Contribute to defining the technical roadmap for the mobile application, driving its implementation, iteration, and long-term vision.
• Plan and lead mobile product releases, define clear milestones and deliverables, and track progress against schedule and budget. Facilitate coordination across related backend services and shared platform components. Define and report on relevant SDLC KPIs and mobile-specific metrics such as stability, crash rate, performance, and release cadence.
• Maintain and improve formal development processes within a team using company-wide standard tools to achieve full transparency and traceability.
• Drive product quality improvements through technical excellence, mobile performance optimization, security best practices, and modern software development standards. Ensure that testing, monitoring, and continuous integration are embedded into every stage of the mobile development process.
• Partner closely with Product Management to translate business needs into actionable technical objectives, proactively identifying opportunities to improve the user experience and application reliability.
• Act as a key technical liaison across departments — collaborating with product, security, and backend teams — to define and deliver high-quality, secure, and user-centric mobile applications.
• Ensure direct reports and the entire team have appropriate training and tools for maximum development productivity and velocity.
• Participate in development and evolution of functional processes and drive Agile and Scrum process evolution and organizational change.
• Keep up to date with mobile technology trends, frameworks, and app store guidelines. Identify relevant innovations and champion their adoption within the team where they can provide tangible product or process benefits.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience managing mobile or software engineers.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in mobile app development (React Native, Swift, Kotlin, or similar).
• Proven track record of deploying and maintaining mobile applications on both the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
• Strong understanding of mobile architecture patterns (MVVM, Clean Architecture, modular design).
• Experience integrating mobile apps with cloud backends (Azure, AWS, GCP).
• A leadership style that combines mentoring, feedback, and empowerment to help developers grow.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience).
• Experience with modern software development processes (CI/CD, DevOps, microservices, Agile Scrum).
• Strong proactive leadership skills, ability to organize, motivate and inspire teams to achieve great results.
• Collaboration and conflict resolution skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to translate business requirements into sound technical solutions, conceive, build, and deliver end-to-end solutions and communicate these solutions with peer organizations.
• Strong technical understanding of software engineering concepts.
• Proficiency in programming languages, frameworks, and tools used for software development.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Professional development opportunities