Engineering Lead, Mobile Platform

Get to know our Team

• The mobile engineering group at Grab is responsible for the consumer and driver apps used by tens of millions of Grab users every day. They build elegant, efficient and highly modularized native mobile and web experiences and platforms on both Android and iOS.
• In addition, they engage in the latest app development technology. They are constantly pushing Grab’s rich set of product capabilities to excellence and establishing the foundations for other product teams to build upon with speed, flexibility and quality.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the leadership team to define a vision for mobile application development across the board and execute on this vision; prioritize projects based on impact and alignment with our long term technology strategy

• Lead your team defining and establishing the platform technology that powers Grab's mobile applications

• Identify and pursue opportunities to build platform level components that will allow product teams to iterate quickly

• Lead the continuous improvement of mobile software development and delivery practices as well as drive cross-team adoption of best-in-class engineering practices and workflows

• Evaluate and introduce new mobile technologies and development practices; help Grab mobile engineers push the boundaries of what is possible from a mobile platform perspective

• Manage the activities of mobile application developers, team leads, managers and other stakeholders to align to and execute against these plans

Requirements

• Bachelor degree in computer science or equivalent work experience

• Has previously led large mobile engineering teams, preferably experienced with scaling and leading multiple geographically distributed teams

• Has experience managing delivery of large enterprise or consumer facing apps (for example, more than 100 mil downloads) on both Android and iOS

• Deep understanding of Android and iOS platform internals

• Knowledge of general as well as mobile platforms-oriented design patterns and strong desire to experiment and work with the latest mobile technologies

• Up-to-date on the latest framework changes, build tools, and libraries, and has in-depth knowledge of mobile-oriented test practices and test frameworks

• Passion for writing readable, maintainable and well-tested code

• Strong understanding of common software development and delivery methodologies; experienced in agile delivery

• Expert level experience with one or more iOS Development languages; Swift, Objective-C

• Expert level experience with one or more Android Development languages; Java or Kotlin

Nice to Have

• Open source contributions

• Good understanding of mobile platforms such as React Native and Flutter