**About the Role**
At this level, you're the technical leader of your squad—driving mobile architecture decisions, mentoring engineers, and delivering complex features end-to-end across our Flutter codebase.
**What You'll Do**
- **Lead technically** — Run design reviews, set mobile architecture direction, and make technical decisions for your squad
- **Mentor engineers** — Help E1/E2 engineers grow through pairing, code review, and coaching
- **Drive quality** — Champion testing strategy, performance optimization, and observability for mobile
- **Leverage AI strategically** — Use AI for architecture exploration, refactoring, and test generation; build or champion AI-powered tools for the squad
- **Optimize for mobile** — Ensure apps perform well on devices with limited resources and varying network conditions
- **Handle incidents** — Lead incident response and postmortems for mobile issues
- **Ship predictably** — Break down ambiguous problems into clear milestones and deliver on commitments
**What We're Looking For**
**Technical**
- Strong experience with Flutter/Dart (native iOS or Android experience also valuable)
- Deep understanding of mobile architecture patterns (clean architecture, state management)
- Experience optimizing for performance, battery life, and limited connectivity
- Solid testing practices for mobile (unit, widget, integration tests)
- Comfortable with CI/CD pipelines and mobile observability tools
**AI Fluency**
- Uses AI tools (Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT) daily for coding, debugging, and analysis
- Uses AI strategically for architecture exploration, large refactors,



and prototyping
- Builds or champions squad-level AI-powered tools (e.g., test generation, code review automation)
- Keeps the team ahead of new AI capabilities relevant to mobile development
**Leadership & Communication**
- Experience mentoring engineers and leading technical discussions
- Clear communicator who can explain trade-offs to engineers, PMs, and stakeholders
- Strong technical documentation and knowledge-sharing practices
- Fluent in Spanish; working knowledge of English for cross-team collaboration
**Mindset**
- Product-minded—you care about user experience and business outcomes
- Strong ownership mentality; you see problems through to resolution
- Curious about fintech and how mobile apps can improve financial access
**Nice to Have**
- Experience in fintech, payments, or lending
- Native iOS (Swift) or Android (Kotlin) experience
- Backend experience (Java, Python, Go) for full-stack understanding
- On-call and incident response experience
- Contributions to mobile tooling, design systems, or shared components
**Our Stack**
Flutter/Dart - Riverpod - Clean Architecture - DataDog - CodeMagic - Jenkins
- Backend:_ Java/Spring - AWS
**Why Aplazo**
Our mission is to empower financial access and opportunity across Latin America through fair, simple, and transparent solutions.
Our tech vision: _be the most beloved and innovative tech organization in Latin America._
We're a Series B fintech growing fast—you'll own the mobile experience that millions of customers use to access credit and manage their finances.

📌 Lead Mobile Engineer (Xico)
🏢 Aplazo
📍 Xico