**Job Objective**:
We are seeking a strategic and hands-on leader who can balance technical excellence with people management, drive engineering best practices, and continuously evolve development processes to support business growth.
**Responsibilities**:
**Team Leadership & Management**:
- Oversee the day-to-day management of the Android, iOS teams, including task delegation, technical guidance, and mentorship.
- Build and cultivate a positive, high-performing, and effective engineering team.
**Technical Planning & Architecture**:
- Lead the overall technical design and technology selection for our mobile platforms.
- Define and enforce unified development standards and create a strategic roadmap for architectural evolution, ensuring the scalability, stability, and forward-looking nature of our tech stack.
**Performance & Quality Assurance**:
- Spearhead efforts to tackle critical technical challenges, leading initiatives in performance optimization (e.g., app startup time, UI smoothness, memory management), stability improvements, and overall user experience enhancement.
- Establish and refine a comprehensive quality assurance system.
**Engineering Excellence & Process Optimization**:
- Drive engineering efficiency and excellence within the team.
- Explore and implement best practices such as CI/CD, automated testing, and proactive monitoring/alerting.
- Continuously optimize and evolve current development processes and collaboration models.
**Requirements**:
- Bachelor's or **Master's degree in Computer Science**, Engineering, or related field.
- **8+ years of experience in mobile development (Android & iOS), with at least 3 years in a technical management or team leadership role in fintech, digital payments or banking.
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- Expertise in either **native Android (Kotlin/Java) and iOS (Swift/Objective-C)**development, coupled with a deep understanding of the other.
- A demonstrable understanding of the **design principles** behind popular open-source components (e.g., OkHttp, Lottie, Glide, AFNetworking) is highly valued.




- **Familiarity with financial regulations in Mexico (CNBV)**is an advantage.
- Mandatory**:Native or fluency in Spanish and English.
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- **Preferred: Conversational in Chinese (Mandarin).
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- Adapt to cross-cultural and time zone international working environments.
- Excellent **communication skills**, optimistic and upward, strong self-motivation, ability to withstand pressure, and self-reflection consciousness.
- Optimistic and upward, strong self motivation, ability to withstand pressure, and self reflection consciousness.
**Perks**
**Labor Hours**:Monday to Friday 9:00 am to 6:00 pm (time availability)
**Modality**: Full-time, Payroll, Hybrid in Mexico City (3 days onsite)
**Salary**:$155,000 MXN Gross Monthly
**Open Positions**:1
**Competitive salary**
**Major Medical Insurance**:100% coverage for the employee and 50% for dependents
**Life Insurance**
**30 days of Christmas bonus (aguinaldo)**
**80% vacation premium on 12 vacation days, plus 1 PTO day per month**
**Savings Fund**:13%
**Grocery vouchers (capped)**
**Annual performance bonus**:
- 10% for individual contributors
- 15% for managers
- **Calculated based on both individual performance and company performance**
**About the company**
The company is Mexico's leading digital payments and commerce platform, dedicated to empowering businesses to interact and transact more effectively with their customers through innovative technologies and best-in-class service.
Founded in ****, the company has built a comprehensive ecosystem of financial solutions that help small and mid-sized businesses accept digital payments, sell online, access credit, and streamline their operations.
Driven by a mission to expand financial inclusion, the company enables millions of merchants-many of whom previously operated in cash-to participate in the digital economy with secure, reliable, and easy-to-use tools.
Today, the company is recognized as one of the most valuable fintech brands in Mexico and continues to drive digital transformation across the country.
**Location**:Hybrid in Mexico City

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