Director Mobile Apps Engineering

We are Optimum, a leader in the fast-paced world of connectivity, and we’re seeking driven and enthusiastic professionals to join our team, empower lives, fuel businesses, and drive innovation. Connectivity is no longer a luxury, but a necessity. A career at Optimum means you’ll be enabling progress and enhancing lives by providing reliable, high-speed connectivity solutions that keep the world connected. Our successes, now and in the future, are powered by our amazing product, a commitment to our people and culture, and the connections we make in our communities.

If you are resourceful, collaborative, and passionate about delivering consistent excellence, Optimum is for you! Job Summary

The Director, Mobile Apps Engineering is a senior technology leader responsible for defining and executing Optimum’s customer-facing mobile application strategy. This role owns the end-to-end engineering delivery of our mobile platform vision and leads multiple engineering teams to deliver reliable, scalable, and best-in-class customer experiences.

You will combine deep mobile platform expertise, including Flutter and Dart, with organizational leadership, and strategic vision to accelerate time-to-market, improve customer experience, and increase development velocity. You will partner cross-functionally with Product, Design, Backend/Platform Engineering, Security, and Business leaders to deliver high-impact, customer-centric mobile solutions at scale. Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership

• Define and drive the customer-facing mobile engineering vision, Flutter platform strategy, and roadmap aligned with business objectives.
• Serve as the executive owner for mobile engineering delivery, quality, platform standards, and innovation across iOS and Android.
• Establish long-term architecture direction, reusable component strategy, and technology standards to support new feature delivery.

Organizational Leadership

• Lead and scale multiple engineering teams and managers, fostering a high-performing and inclusive culture.

• Develop leadership bench strength through mentorship, succession planning, and talent development.
• Drive hiring strategies and organizational design to support growth and evolving business needs.
• Champion engineering excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement across the organization.

Delivery & Execution

• Oversee delivery of large-scale, multi-team mobile initiatives, ensuring alignment on priorities, timelines, and outcomes.
• Ensure predictable delivery against milestones while maintaining enterprise-grade standards for scalability, reliability, performance, and security.
• Drive adoption of modern engineering practices (CI/CD, automation, observability, crash analytics, DevSecOps).
• Establish and track KPIs for engineering efficiency, product quality, and customer experience.

Cross-Functional Partnership

• Collaborate with Product, Design, Marketing, Analytics, and Operations leaders to deliver seamless customer experiences.
• Align engineering investments with customer needs, revenue goals, and operational efficiency.
• Influence and contribute to enterprise-wide digital transformation initiatives.

Technical Excellence

• Set standards for architecture, code quality, testing, performance optimization, accessibility, and localization.
• Document platform standards, reusable libraries, and release playbooks to ensure consistent delivery across current and future mobile products.
• Guide teams in adopting modern frameworks and evolving mobile ecosystems across Flutter, iOS and Android.
• Oversee technical debt management and platform modernization initiatives.
• Drive innovation through prototyping, experimentation, and proof-of-concepts for emerging mobile capabilities.

Governance & Business Alignment

• Ensure compliance with regulatory, privacy, and corporate policies.
• Manage budgets, vendor relationships, and cost optimization initiatives, including contractor governance and long-term staffing plans.
• Translate technology investments into business value, ROI, and customer impact.
• Identify patent opportunities and contribute to intellectual property strategy.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience; Master’s degree preferred.
• 12+ years of experience in software engineering, including 5+ years in senior leadership roles.
• Proven experience leading mobile engineering teams and delivering large-scale, consumer-facing applications across iOS and Android distribution channels.
• Deep expertise in Flutter and Dart, including production experience shipping customer-facing apps across iOS and Android.
• Demonstrated success leading distributed and/or contractor engineering teams through architecture, delivery, and production release.
• Strong understanding of mobile architecture, design patterns, modularization, testing strategy, and platform scalability.
• Strong experience with mobile CI/CD, release management, and observability tooling.
• Familiarity with mobile security practices (OAuth/OIDC, secure storage, certificate pinning, app attestation).
• Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Passion for innovation, customer experience, and continuous improvement.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with telecom, subscription-based, or account-management mobile applications.
• Working knowledge of mobile BFF and API gateway design patterns
• Familiarity with native mobile development, including Kotlin and Swift
• Experience leading or overseeing migration from native Android (Kotlin) and/or iOS (Swift) codebases to Flutter.

At Optimum, every action and interaction we take part in, is driven by our three Guiding Principles: Do What’s Right, Drive One Optimum, and Make It Happen. These aren’t just words, they help us build trust, create real community, and embrace new ways of thinking. Our employees are empowered to do the right thing for our customers and co-workers and to recognize and reward these behaviors when we see them. It’s all part of the bigger picture of “Be The Difference” where each employee knows they have the power to enact real change, share new ideas, and understand that learning never stop.

If you have the drive to succeed and are ready to embark on a thrilling career, seize this opportunity today, and join our winning team. Together, we’ll shape the future of connectivity.