Head of Mobile Engineering - International Mobile Tech Scale-up - £130k - Android/ KMP/ Kotlin

Head of Mobile Engineering £130,000 | Hybrid – 2 days/week Central London

I am exclusively supporting a high-growth mobile technology business whose products sit on tens of millions of phones globally. Their Android platform powers a revenue engine trusted by some of the world's biggest carriers and they're scaling fast!

We are recruiting for a Head of Mobile Engineering to own the entire mobile function: Android, iOS, the teams, the architecture, and the roadmap.

They are looking for a genuine department-level leader + someone who will shape how they build, who they hire, and where the technology goes next.

What the role involves

• Leading multi-squad mobile engineering teams across Android and iOS (
• Owning the technical architecture at global scale (10M+ MAU, enterprise-grade compliance, tier-1 partner integrations)
• Sitting at the table with C-suite and commercial partners - translating engineering strategy into business outcomes
• Driving the shift to modern declarative UI and evaluating next-gen tooling including Kotlin Multiplatform
• Maintaining real technical credibility - code reviews, architecture decisions, hands-on problem solving alongside your teams

What they're looking for

• Deep Android / Kotlin background with serious architectural experience
• A proven track record of structuring and scaling mobile engineering departments
• Comfort operating at exec level (you can hold a commercial conversation as confidently as a technical one)
• Scale-up or growth-stage company experience
• iOS oversight capability alongside your Android depth
• Kotlin Multiplatform experience is a real differentiator

This isn't a role for someone who wants to delegate and manage upwards.

It's for a technically sharp, commercially aware leader who wants to build something and leave their mark on a product used by millions.