Chalhoub Group Mobile Engineering Manager

About Chalhoub Group

Founded in 1955 by Michel and Widad Chalhoub, Chalhoub Group has grown into a leading partner for luxury across the Middle East. Headquartered in Dubai, the family-owned group brings together international maisons and homegrown concepts across fashion, beauty and lifestyle, combining regional expertise with retail and distribution capabilities. As an employer, it offers career opportunities spanning client experience, brand management, merchandising, logistics and digital innovation. Its multicultural environment connects employees with the evolving expectations of luxury consumers, while its emphasis on learning, entrepreneurship and sustainability provides a distinctive setting for professionals seeking to shape the region’s luxury landscape.

Role & Responsibilities

• Lead the mobile engineering capability across teams developing native iOS and Android applications and cross-platform mobile applications.
• Provide engineering leadership and capability development, developing managers and teams and building a high-performing mobile engineering team.
• Oversee workforce and capacity planning, cross-team delivery, and delivery leadership across mobile squads.
• Own mobile engineering practices and metrics, continuous improvement, and vendor management.
• Drive reliable, secure, and performant mobile experiences, overseeing mobile performance, state management, security, and crash analytics.
• Oversee App Store and Play Store delivery, automated testing, and CI/CD across mobile applications.
• Remain hands-on by planning, designing, executing, and documenting functional, integration, end-to-end, and regression testing across integrated mobile systems within the assigned scope.
• Use Claude Code for AI-assisted development and drive its grounded adoption across the mobile team.

Qualifications

• At least 10 years of hands-on mobile engineering experience and at least 3 years leading engineering teams.
• Expertise in React Native, iOS (Swift), Android (Kotlin), mobile performance, mobile state management, and mobile security.
• Hands-on experience with GraphQL/REST APIs, crash analytics (Firebase, Datadog), automated testing, CI/CD, Bitrise, Expo, and App Store/Play Store delivery.
• Proven multi-team leadership, including manager and team development, organization design, workforce and capacity planning, delivery leadership, vendor management, and continuous improvement.
• Familiarity with Claude Code for AI-assisted development.

Skills

Experience

At least 10 years of hands-on mobile engineering experience and at least 3 years leading engineering teams.

Benefits

Healthcare, child education contribution, remote and flexible working policies, employee discounts, learning and development opportunities, exposure to different assignments, and internal mobility.

Culture

Chalhoub Group combines its heritage as a family-owned business with the dynamism of the Middle East’s luxury sector, fostering a multicultural workplace rooted in collaboration and long-term relationships. Its culture emphasizes continuous learning, entrepreneurial initiative and excellence in customer experience, encouraging employees to develop their expertise while contributing to the evolution of luxury retail.

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