Hybrid Mobile Engineering Lead

at Auror

• Job title: Mobile Engineering Lead
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: NZ$145,000 - NZ$175,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Android, Flutter, iOS
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Auckland, New Zealand

About the role

• Mobile Engineering Lead at Auror tackling theft and crime via technology. Leading a specialized mobile team with a focus on clarity, collaboration, and strategic delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead the mobile engineering team by creating clarity and distributing authority, not just delegating tasks. You will mentor engineers by asking the right questions rather than simply providing answers.
• Balance hands on development with strategic leadership, diving into code when needed while ensuring delivery pressure does not crowd out strategic thinking and technical improvements.
• Work alongside engineers who already collaborate effectively on technical decisions, formalising practices that work, introducing new ones where needed, and empowering the team to own significant technical decisions and delivery.
• Partner with product and design as part of the trio to shape mobile solutions, translating business priorities and cost sensitivity into clear technical direction for the team while communicating technical tradeoffs in plain language to non technical stakeholders. Work with the team to evaluate options for non-trivial problems, represent clear recommendations that balance user value with technical investment, and provide feedback to the product team when proposed solutions do not fit the problem, the platform, or the level of investment warranted.
• Facilitate sustainable planning and estimation practices, ensuring they do not get squeezed out when delivery pressure is high. Create clarity around priorities so the team can make day to day technical and delivery decisions confidently, escalating only when tradeoffs materially affect scope, timing, or risk.
• Balance feature delivery with incoming requests and support from other teams and customers. Manage the organizational complexity of being a specialized team that others depend on, helping prioritize work so the mobile team is not constantly reactive at the expense of planned outcomes.
• Champion continuous improvement in engineering practices, including deployment automation, testing strategies for mobile, efficient code reviews, and comprehensive documentation. Keep momentum on technical improvements while balancing delivery commitments.
• Leverage AI tools strategically to amplify your team's capabilities, integrating GitHub Copilot, Cursor and Claude to accelerate development without sacrificing quality.

Requirements

• Proven mobile technical expertise: Proven expertise in Native (Android/iOS) or Flutter development, with a deep focus on backend integration and API design strategy, coupled with the ability to understand technical decisions in the context of business value and organizational impact. While you will lead a team of Flutter specialists, your native foundational knowledge allows you to provide high-level architectural guidance.
• Leadership experience: Demonstrated experience leading engineering teams, managing performance, and cultivating a culture of accountability and excellence. Experience working with capable teams who need organizational support and strategic direction.
• Communication skills: The ability to distill complex technical concepts for both technical and non technical audiences, explain mobile specific constraints and opportunities to product teams, and work across teams to enable others through building platform capabilities or managing dependencies.
• Strategic collaboration and prioritisation: Comfortable managing competing priorities from multiple product streams, balancing immediate value with long term technical health, and making informed decisions about where to invest in enabling infrastructure versus direct feature delivery. A strategic mindset that considers how mobile fits within the wider platform architecture and positions the team for sustainable growth.
• Passion for integrating AI: Experience or interest in leveraging AI tools and LLMs as force multipliers for your team—not just following trends, but thoughtfully applying these technologies to enhance engineering practices, streamline workflows and accelerate delivery.
• Big picture thinking: A strategic mindset that considers the broader business impact of engineering decisions, including scalability, performance, maintainability, and user experience when guiding architectural discussions.
• Passion for product quality: A strong understanding that technical excellence manifests as reliability, scalability, security, and data integrity, particularly crucial in our context of crime prevention and building safer communities.

Benefits

• Competitive salary Range: Depending on level of experience of PL3 ($145,000 - $175,000)
• Employee share scheme: You’ll own part of a company making a real difference!
• Flexibility: We are hard-working and outcome focused, but recognise there is more to life than work. We promote a healthy work/life blend.
• Shorter work weeks (at full pay): Everyone gets Friday afternoons off, so you can start your weekend early, and do more of whatever it is that makes you happy.
• Health Care Plan: In partnership with Nib, Auror covers 100% of the cost of your individual health insurance plan.
• Focus on mental and physical health: We understand how vital our health is and have policies to support your wellness, including: Wellness Days, and up to three expert sessions paid for every year.
• Family-friendly: We offer comprehensive parental leave and benefits for primary and non-primary caregivers, including a baby bonus and meals delivered to your door.
• Personal growth: We support our team to participate in courses, conferences, or events that will help them develop their skills.
• Team love: We have regular team lunches and social events where most (if not all) activities are during work hours.