Lead Mobile Engineer

Overview

Lead the end-to-end development of Levi's consumer mobile app, owning technical direction, delivery and release readiness in a fast-paced agile environment.

What you'll do

• Lead technical planning, design decisions, and delivery for the mobile app from implementation approach through release readiness.
• Own the full lifecycle of what you build, including writing, testing, deploying, monitoring, and maintaining code in production, and fulfilling on-call duties for the app.
• Contribute to the technical vision for Levi's web and app platforms, defining patterns, architecture, and best practices for the team.
• Design, build, and maintain high-performance, accessible mobile experiences using React Native, integrated with backend/commerce APIs, with attention to state management, offline handling, and caching.
• Own app performance, stability, and platform health such as startup time, responsiveness, crash rates, and app store ratings, and manage release processes (app store submission, versioning, phased rollouts).
• Champion telemetry and observability by instrumenting the app with crash reporting, logging, and monitoring to proactively detect issues.
• Lead code reviews, architecture reviews, and technical standards; own test strategy (unit, integration, end-to-end) as a shared team responsibility.
• Mentor developers, play an active role in hiring and growing the team, and lead by example on team agreements and best practices.
• Partner with product, design, and backend/platform engineering to align on requirements, API contracts, and integration points.
• Drive agile execution with sprint planning, backlog refinement, and estimation.

What you'll need

• 8+ years of professional software development experience, with significant depth in mobile app development.
• Proven experience leading the technical direction of a consumer-facing mobile app, ideally in e-commerce or retail.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and elevate the technical skills of other engineers.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.
• Hands-on experience using AI tools (e.g., Claude, Copilot, ChatGPT) to accelerate coding, debugging, testing, and documentation, including writing effective prompts and critically validating AI-generated output for accuracy, security, and production quality.
• Understanding of responsible AI practices, including data privacy and safe handling of enterprise information.
• Mobile: React Native, JavaScript/TypeScript, native iOS (Swift) and Android (Kotlin) fundamentals for native module work.
• Integration: RESTful/GraphQL APIs, headless/composable commerce platforms.
• CI/CD: Git-based workflows, automated pipelines, mobile release tooling (Fastlane or similar), app store submission processes.
• Performance and quality: crash monitoring, performance profiling, automated testing (unit/integration/e2e) with Appium, Selenium, and Java.
• Observability: experience with mobile telemetry, crash reporting, and monitoring tools (e.g., Firebase Crashlytics, Datadog RUM, New Relic Mobile, Sentry).
• Cloud: experience with any major cloud provider (Azure, GCP, or AWS).

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, India.
• Employment type: Full time.
• Current LS&Co employees apply via their Workday account.