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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Director of Engineering, Mobile Capture - **Company:** Hover - **Location:** York, UK (Remote available) - **Salary:** £260,000.0 - £350,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** 3D Scanning, Computer Vision, Mobile Application Development, Interaction Design, Mobile Application Software, Video Editing, Concurrency, React Native, Lidar - **Published:** September 24, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5895233146 ## About the Role * Experience operating mobile applications at meaningful scale, with working knowledge of mobile architecture, performance, networking, concurrency, storage, instrumentation, testing, and release engineering * Genuine interest in interaction design and user experience, and a track record of partnering with Product and Design as a peer rather than as a downstream execution function * A track record of improving reliability and engineering quality in complex or mature systems * Experience hiring, developing, and retaining engineering leaders and senior technical talent, including setting and holding a high performance bar * Clear communication, and the ability to create alignment across teams working on interconnected systems Nice-to-haves * Computer vision or ML-enabled mobile products, or spatial computing (ARKit, ARCore, LiDAR, RoomPlan) * 3D reconstruction, photogrammetry, or camera and video processing pipelines * Applications built for technicians, inspectors, or other field users * Insurance, construction, property technology, or inspection workflows * Large-file upload systems, offline-first applications, or mobile SDK development ## Description You will lead a team of engineers and engineering managers who own Hover's mobile capture experience across iOS, Android, and React Native. You will set technical direction for mobile product development, balancing near-term delivery against long-term investment in architecture, performance, and developer velocity. You will shape the boundary between shared capture infrastructure, reusable components, and individual product experiences as our workflows multiply. You will treat reliability as a product feature - building the observability to understand what is actually happening on devices in the field, and establishing the testing, release, and quality practices that let teams ship quickly with confidence. And as a senior member of the Engineering leadership team, you will help decide where we invest and how our technology evolves. Specifically, you will own: * Mobile application development across iOS, Android, and React Native * Camera-based and sensor-driven capture, 3D scanning, and measurement workflows * Property inspection, damage documentation, and photo organization and localization * Mobile performance, stability, thermal and battery behavior, and offline reliability * Release quality, observability, testing, and operational health * Mobile architecture, developer infrastructure, and reusable capture SDKs * Leading mobile engineering organizations, including managing engineering managers or multiple teams * A strong technical foundation in mobile engineering - enough depth to evaluate architecture, challenge technical decisions, and coach senior engineers ## Related Videos - [How to develop an autonomous car end-to-end: Robotic Drive and the mobility revolution](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/22-how-to-develop-an-autonomous-car-end-to-end-robotic-drive-and-the-mobility-revolution) - [Robots are coming into the wild! 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