[Hiring] Lead Mobile Engineer @World Food Programme

Role Description

As the technical leader for ShareTheMeal's mobile engineering function, define and execute the mobile technology strategy that enables the organization to scale from 1.9M to 10M+ users while maintaining exceptional user experience and operational efficiency impacting an annual revenue of $30 million USD.

Accountabilities / Responsibilities

• Lead Technical Strategy
  • Own the mobile engineering vision and multi-year technical roadmap, aligning with ShareTheMeal's growth objectives and WFP's mission to reach zero hunger.
  • Define and evangelize mobile architecture standards across iOS, Android, and QA, ensuring scalability to support 10M+ active users.
  • Establish engineering metrics and SLOs that drive measurable improvements in app performance, reliability, and user satisfaction (e.g., crash-free rate >99.9%, P95 load time <2s).
  • Champion innovation initiatives, evaluating and piloting emerging mobile technologies that could differentiate ShareTheMeal's user experience or operational efficiency.
  • Represent mobile engineering in cross-functional leadership forums, influencing product strategy and organizational technical decisions.
• Build and lead a high-performing mobile engineering organization capable of rapid, high-quality delivery
  • Drive architectural decisions with clear rationale, creating decision frameworks that enable the team to move quickly while maintaining quality.
  • Continuously optimize team velocity and engineering effectiveness, eliminating blockers and establishing processes that scale with team growth.
  • Develop engineering talent through structured mentorship.
  • Own the technical roadmap, translating business objectives into quarterly engineering initiatives with clear success metrics.
  • Lead drafting of KPIs and SLOs and project initiatives.
  • Establish engineering culture and best practices for code quality, testing, and operational excellence that become organizational standards.
  • Build cross-functional partnerships with Product, Design, Backend, and Data teams to ensure seamless delivery of user-facing features.
  • Spearhead the design of scalable architectures for Android, iOS, and QA platforms.
• Drive engineering quality and technical sustainability
  • Own the engineering quality strategy, balancing feature velocity with technical health through data-driven prioritization.
  • Lead technical debt reduction initiatives that measurably improve system maintainability, reducing bug rates and increasing feature velocity.
  • Establish quality gates and engineering standards (code review practices, testing requirements, performance benchmarks) that prevent quality erosion.
  • Champion engineering investments in tooling, automation, and infrastructure that multiply team effectiveness.
• Research, plan and facilitate the improvement of product quality, security, and performance
  • Design, implement and maintain native Android and iOS solutions for ShareTheMeal using Kotlin and Swift.
  • Design and implement test automation systems with the QA team.
• Document architecture/code decisions and APIs.

Qualifications

• University degree in computer science or related field.
• At least 5 years of experience in developing and designing Android and iOS native apps designed to serve millions of active users.
• Strong analytical abilities, both quantitative and qualitative.
• Ability to make technical decisions that balance platform-specific needs with cross-platform efficiency.
• Excellent problem-solving skills with ability to debug complex mobile issues.
• Ability to interact with managers and stakeholders with maturity and tact.
• Mature judgment with strong interpersonal skills.
• Collaborative spirit able to work effectively across diverse teams and cultures.
• Self-motivated and able to work with a high degree of autonomy.
• Adaptability to rapidly evolving mobile technology landscape.
• Fully committed and motivated to achieve the aims of the World Food Programme.
• Proficiency in Kotlin, Swift and modern Android and iOS development patterns.
• Strong knowledge of Android and iOS SDK and frameworks, Compose and SwiftUI.
• Experience with Swift structured concurrency, Kotlin Coroutines and modern asynchronous programming patterns.
• Experience with architecture patterns (MVVM, VIPER, Clean Architecture).
• Experience with App Store and Play Store submission process.
• Knowledge of Unit Testing, UI Testing (Maestro), and Test-Driven Development.
• Expert understanding mobile app performance optimization techniques.
• Experience with mobile CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes.
• Familiarity with mobile analytics, crash reporting, and monitoring tools.
• Embracing principles of clean code, test-driven development, and clean architecture.
• Experience with agile development processes and cross-functional team collaboration.
• Excellent command of spoken and written English.
• Intermediate knowledge of another official UN language would be a plus (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish).

Deliverables at the End of the Contract

• Deliver Product features and Tech Initiatives across Android, iOS and QA platforms.
• Documentation and handover to Head of ShareTheMeal Software Engineering.