Technical Manager - Platform Services Mobile Foundations

Role overview Lead an engineering team responsible for shared frontend and mobile foundations used across a broad product ecosystem. The role combines people management and delivery ownership with technical leadership in React and React Native architecture, including SDKs and integrations for capabilities such as identity, notifications, and localization.

Responsibilities - Manage and develop engineers through hiring, performance support, career planning, and regular mentorship. - Guide frontend and mobile architecture decisions, review designs and code, and maintain sound technical patterns across shared platform services. - Plan and deliver complex cross-team initiatives, aligning mobile and frontend needs with backend-for-frontend and core services. - Coordinate with product, design, and consumer-facing teams to agree on scope, roadmaps, and integration standards. - Establish practices for testing, CI/CD, monitoring, and developer experience across platform services. - Balance technical quality, delivery timelines, risks, and team resources while communicating decisions to technical and non-technical partners.

Requirements - Demonstrated experience managing engineering teams, including hiring, performance management, and career development. - Strong software engineering background with hands-on experience in React and React Native, plus modern frontend or mobile architecture. - Record of leading technical projects from planning through deployment while balancing quality and time to market. - Understanding of distributed systems and architectures such as micro frontends, Node.js-based backend-for-frontend services, REST APIs, and GraphQL. - Strong project organization, including roadmap execution, sprint planning, risk management, and resource allocation. - Able to communicate fluently with technical and non-technical stakeholders in Portuguese and English, and to mentor inclusively.

Benefits and work setup This position is open to candidates based in Portugal and is described as remote within the country. Benefits listed include health insurance, a wellness membership, home-office support, flexible scheduling, at least 25 days of paid holiday plus public holidays, paid parental leave, and career development resources.