Mobile Lead Engineer
First seen by Alion on May 12, 2026. Collinson scores B on the Alion truth index.
Recruiter for this role:
Britney Dias Key Responsibilities- Lead the design and development of native Android and iOS applications, ensuring they are scalable, performant, secure, and well-architected. • Provide technical leadership to the squad, guiding decisions on mobile architecture, frameworks, libraries, and best practices in code quality, performance, accessibility, and security. • Remain highly hands-on, spending most of your time writing and reviewing mobile code, and ensuring high-quality, maintainable applications. • Collaborate closely with backend engineers to design and consume APIs that support robust and efficient mobile experiences. • Mentor and coach mobile engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning, strong ownership, and technical excellence. • Own mobile build, release, and deployment processes, including CI/CD pipelines and app store submissions for Google Play and Apple App Store. • Champion automated testing, app stability, observability, and the responsible use of AI to improve developer productivity and software quality. Knowledge, skills and experience required • 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong focus on mobile application development. • Strong experience building native Android and native iOS applications, with a deep understanding of modern mobile architectures and best practices. • Previous experience as a Lead Engineer, Tech Lead, or Senior Mobile Engineer leading a small team. • Proven experience integrating AI-assisted development tools and techniques into everyday workflows (e.g. code generation, testing, debugging, performance analysis, or automation). • Hands-on experience inteKey Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of native Android and iOS applications, ensuring they are scalable, performant, secure, and well-architected.
- Provide technical leadership to the squad, guiding decisions on mobile architecture, frameworks, libraries, and best practices in code quality, performance, accessibility, and security.
- Remain highly hands-on, spending most of your time writing and reviewing mobile code, and ensuring high-quality, maintainable applications.
- Collaborate closely with backend engineers to design and consume APIs that support robust and efficient mobile experiences.
- Mentor and coach mobile engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning, strong ownership, and technical excellence.
- Own mobile build, release, and deployment processes, including CI/CD pipelines and app store submissions for Google Play and Apple App Store.
- Champion automated testing, app stability, observability, and the responsible use of AI to improve developer productivity and software quality.
Knowledge, skills and experience required
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong focus on mobile application development.
- Strong experience building native Android and native iOS applications, with a deep understanding of modern mobile architectures and best practices.
- Previous experience as a Lead Engineer, Tech Lead, or Senior Mobile Engineer leading a small team.
- Proven experience integrating AI-assisted development tools and techniques into everyday workflows (e.g. code generation, testing, debugging, performance analysis, or automation).
- Hands-on experience integrating mobile apps with backend APIs (REST and/or GraphQL) and cloud-based services.
- Strong focus on testing and quality, with experience using mobile testing frameworks and automated testing approaches.
- Experience owning mobile CI/CD pipelines, build automation, and app store release processes.
- An observability mindset, with experience using crash reporting, performance monitoring, and analytics tools to improve app reliability.
- Comfortable working with Git, Jira, Confluence, and modern agile engineering workflows.
• Proven ability to mentor engineers, review code and designs, and balance pragmatism with mobile engineering excellence.grating mobile apps with backend APIs (REST and/or GraphQL) and cloud-based services. • Strong focus on testing and quality, with experience using mobile testing frameworks and automated testing approaches. • Experience owning mobile CI/CD pipelines, build automation, and app store release processes. • An observability mindset, with experience using crash reporting, performance monitoring, and analytics tools to improve app reliability. • Comfortable working with Git, Jira, Confluence, and modern agile engineering workflows. • Proven ability to mentor engineers, review code and designs, and balance pragmatism with mobile engineering excellence.
About us: Our story
Collinson Group is a global leader in driving loyalty and engagement for many of the world’s largest companies. Predominantly through the provision of travel related benefits within a market leading digital travel ecosystem. The group offers a unique blend of industry and sector specialists who together provide market-leading experience in delivering products and services across four core capabilities: Loyalty, Lifestyle Benefits and Insurance.
The group provides unrivalled insight and expertise around affluent consumers and frequent travellers, creating and delivering products and services now accessible to over 400m end consumers.
We have more than 25 years’ experience, with 28 global locations, servicing over 800 clients in 170 countries, employing 1,800 people.
We have been bringing innovation to the market since inception - from launching the first independent global VIP lounge access Programme, Priority Pass to being the first to sell direct travel insurance in the UK through Columbus Direct and creating the first loyalty agency of its kind in the travel sector with ICLP. Today we still invest heavily in innovation to ensure that we continue to deliver superior customer experiences.
Key clients include: Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Cathay Pacific, British Airways, LATAM, Flying Blue, Accor, EasyJet, HSBC, Chase, HDFC.
Our mission is focused on doing good beyond profit, which for us means we seek out opportunities for our people to share in our success and that we give back to the communities and people within which we work.
Never short of ambition, the success of our business is delivered through the diverse and talented team of over 1,800 colleagues globally.
Equal Opportunities: Our commitment to inclusion
Collinson is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes differences in all their forms including: colour, race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, neurodivergence, family status, age, individuals with disabilities and people from all backgrounds, cultures and experiences as we strongly believe this contributes to our on-going success.
We are focused on continually evolving our purpose driven, high performing culture, providing an environment where our people have the opportunity to achieve their full potential and do interesting and meaningful work. Our company values are: Act smarter, Do the right thing, One team and Be insight led. These help guide everything we do internally in terms of how we think, act and interact, right through to how we deliver value to our customers and clients.
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Reward & Benefits: What's in it for me?
You can look forward to a competitive salary and benefit plan including but not limited to:
Hybrid work arrangement (work from home/office)
26 calendar days Annual Leave
Health Insurance
Maternity leave (6 months- Paid)
Paternity leave (15 days- Paid)