Mobile App Technical Lead

• Melbourne, Victoria | CBD Head Office
• Permanent Full Time | Hybrid Working
• Competitive Salary | Attractive Discounts on RACV Products

Great things start here

Join our team of business professionals doing meaningful work in an organisation that’s ever evolving. Work with people who care and expand your career with opportunities only a diverse business can provide. With license to see things through your way, and the option to split your time between office and home, RACV is where you’ll make a difference.

About the opportunity

RACV is looking for an experienced Mobile App Technical Lead to provide technical leadership across our native iOS and Android application platforms.

As the Mobile App Technical Lead, you’ll combine hands-on mobile engineering expertise with technical leadership, helping shape the architecture, development, deployment and ongoing evolution of RACV’s mobile applications. You’ll work across internal teams and technology partners, setting engineering standards, guiding developers and ensuring our mobile solutions are secure, scalable, high-performing and aligned with RACV’s broader technology strategy.

This is an opportunity to play a key role in strengthening RACV’s mobile engineering capability while driving modern development practices, automation and continuous improvement.

Key responsibilities include

• Lead the technical design, development, deployment and support of native iOS and Android applications.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership across Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Swift, SwiftUI and UIKit.
• Define and champion mobile architecture patterns, engineering standards, coding practices and security controls.
• Prepare technical designs and conduct code reviews to ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable and aligned with enterprise architecture
• Drive CI/CD, Azure DevOps, release automation and mobile deployment practices.
• Work closely with Product Owners, UX/UI Designers, Architects, developers and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into robust mobile solutions.
• Provide technical leadership across internal and multi-vendor development teams, mentoring engineers and lifting overall engineering capability.
• Troubleshoot complex application, integration, authentication and performance issues using monitoring, analytics and observability tools.
• Evaluate emerging mobile technologies and engineering practices to continuously improve RACV’s mobile capability.

What You’ll Need to Be Successful

• Previous experience working in a technical leadership role, providing technical direction, mentoring developers and driving engineering best practices
• Extensive experience developing native mobile applications across iOS and Android
• Hands-on experience with Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Android SDK, Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, Android Studio and Xcode.
• Proven experience architecting and delivering large-scale, production-ready mobile applications.
• Strong knowledge of modern mobile architecture including MVVM, Clean Architecture, modular architecture and dependency injection.
• Experience with integrating mobile applications with RESTful APIs, GraphQL, microservices and backend systems
• Strong understanding of mobile security and authentication, including OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, MFA
• Experience with Azure DevOps, CI/CD, Firebase, automated testing, application monitoring and crash analytics.
• Demonstrated experience leading technical and code reviews, mentoring engineers.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication and problem-solving skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
• A relevant tertiary qualification or equivalent industry experience. Azure and mobile platform certifications are highly regarded.

There’s so much on offer when you join RACV

• A flexible, informal work environment that supports balance between work and home
• Generous discounts on home and car insurance policies and RACV roadside care
• RACV Club membership and great discounts across RACV resorts
• Monthly-updated discounts from a wide range of corporate partners

Our difference

At RACV, we believe diversity and inclusion are essential to our continued success. We want our people to feel welcomed, supported and valued for who they are and what they bring. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process or in the role, please let our Talent Acquisition team know.

Application process

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