Head of Engineering - Mobile (Portugal - Hybrid/Remote)

What you'll be doing:

• Manage stakeholders of your area of ownership.
• Manage activities and needs of several engineering teams in activities such as career path, team structure and continuous team evolution.
• Lead and manage multiple teams of software engineers, providing guidance and support on best practices, software development methodologies, and project management.
• Manage deliverables of several engineering teams.
• Oversee the design, development, and implementation of complex software systems and applications.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and identify solutions.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code.
• Conduct code reviews and provide feedback and suggestions for improvement.
• Ensure that software products meet quality standards and are delivered on time and within budget.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest software development trends and technologies.
• Develop and implement engineering strategies to support business objectives.

What you need to have:

• Proficiency with Android &/or iOS Native development languages(Kotlin/Swift).
• More than 5 years of experience developing Mobile(Android or iOS) Native Apps.
• Experience leading a team of engineers.
• Ensures code is well documented and well tested with appropriate use of manual vs automated tests. 
• Has a strong awareness of the ecosystem of tools and libraries supporting the team's primary programming language and development environment and a strong grasp of the idioms and patterns of the team's language. 
• Pushes the team to address code tasks with both high throughput and appropriately high quality for the stage of the project it's working on.
• Able to independently design software components in well scoped scenarios, with simplicity and maintenance as key considerations. 
• Strong grasp of the libraries, platforms, and systems that one relies on, helping and allowing the team to apply them expertly.
• Able to troubleshoot with the team, and make technical contributions to product architecture when needed. 
• Proactively identifies issues with technical dependencies of the team's projects that are owned by other teams and works together with them towards a solution.
• Global vision of the product. 
• You are able to combine specifications and technical challenges in order to define features across multiple areas.
• Thinks strategically and cross-functionally, with a focus on long-term goals beyond his own team primary responsibilities.
• Supports and coaches colleagues to reach the excellence level required at Sword. 
• Encourages colleagues identifying areas for improvement in their daily activities (processes and systems).
• Consistently aids team members without prompting, promotes additional activities at Sword (e.g. recruiting, team events, external events) taking ownership at the individual or team level.

Bonus Points:

• Experience leading multiple teams with different technology stacks.
• Lead by example with an agile mindset therefore you see leadership not as a position but as a task.