PUMA Group
Website:
puma.com
Job details:
SPEED & SPIRIT is what we look for in our candidates, defined by some simple values that inspire us to BE DRIVEN in our performance, BE VIBRANT in our sporting legacy, BE TOGETHER in our team spirit, and BE YOU to let our individual talent and experience shine. Applying for a job at PUMA is easy and all genders are welcome. Simply click APPLY ONLINE and follow the steps to upload your application.
YOUR MISSION:
About the Organisation & Role:
You will be part of the Consumer Experience Engineering organisation responsible for building fast, intuitive, accessible and premium digital experiences across web and mobile. The organisation owns the web & mobile platforms, engineering delivery for consumer-facing journeys, shared design systems, performance, accessibility and AI-native engineering practices that help product teams deliver consistent, reusable, high-quality consumer experiences across the globe.
The Lead Engineer (Mobile) is responsible for defining mobile architecture, leading engineering execution, and delivering scalable, reliable, accessible, and high-performing consumer-facing applications across iOS and Android platforms.
What you will do:
- Lead the architecture, design, development, and evolution of large-scale consumer-facing mobile applications.
- Define mobile engineering standards, architectural principles, reusable patterns, and development best practices.
- Provide technical direction for React Native solutions across iOS and Android platforms.
- Design scalable, modular, maintainable, and reliable mobile application architectures.
- Guide teams on mobile application lifecycle management, release readiness, store distribution, and production support.
- Define mobile security and privacy engineering standards, including secure storage, authentication integration, data protection and third-party SDK governance.
- Evaluate architectural trade-offs and make pragmatic decisions aligned with product and engineering goals.
- Partner with Product, Design, Architecture, Quality Engineering, and Platform teams to deliver optimized consumer journeys.
- Establish engineering patterns for state management, API integration, offline capabilities, caching, and error handling.
- Drive mobile performance engineering across application startup, rendering, network utilization, memory, and responsiveness.
- Lead integration of mobile applications with commerce platforms, APIs, content platforms, analytics, and third-party services.
- Ensure mobile experiences meet WCAG accessibility standards and inclusive design principles.
- Partner with design teams to develop reusable components and evolve mobile design systems.
Support experimentation, feature flagging, A/B testing, and data-driven optimization of consumer journeys.
YOUR TALENT:
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with significant expertise in mobile application development.
- 3+ years of experience leading a technical capability, project or engineering team.
- Strong hands-on expertise in React Native and modern TypeScript/JavaScript development.
- Deep understanding of iOS and Android fundamentals, platform capabilities, and mobile application lifecycles.
- Strong experience with mobile build, signing, release, distribution, and application store processes.
- Proven expertise in frontend and mobile system design, application architecture, and engineering patterns.
- Strong understanding of state management, API integration, caching, offline-first, and synchronization patterns.
- Experience integrating native iOS and Android modules into React Native applications.
- Proven experience in optimizing startup time, rendering, memory utilization, network efficiency, and application responsiveness.
- Strong understanding of mobile asset delivery, caching, network efficiency and content delivery considerations.
- Understanding of consumer journeys, conversion optimization, personalization, and digital experience quality.
- Practical knowledge of WCAG standards, mobile accessibility, and inclusive experience engineering.
- Experience with experimentation platforms, feature flags and A/B testing.
- Strong understanding of design systems, reusable component libraries, and mobile UX engineering principles.
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, technical leadership, stakeholder management, and decision-making skills.
- Proven ability to drive architectural decisions, influence technical direction and mentor engineers.
- Experience using coding agents, LLMs or AI-assisted engineering tools to improve software delivery and developer productivity.
- Experience in eCommerce, retail, or consumer digital products is strongly preferred.
PUMA provides equal opportunities for all job applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or disability. Equality for all is one of the core principles at PUMA and we do not tolerate any form of harassment or discrimination.
At PUMA, every application is reviewed by real people who are committed to fairness, transparency, and equal opportunity - no matter your background, identity, or experience. To ensure our process stays true to these values, no automated systems or AI tools are used to make hiring decisions. Every decision is made by real people -with real judgment and accountability. We may use functions supported by Artificial Intelligence (AI) to carry out isolated organizational steps, such as scheduling interviews. These functions have no influence on decisions in the application process. We believe in creating spaces where everyone is welcome, celebrated, and empowered to contribute authentically. Because at PUMA, whoever wants to play, can play.
PUMA is a global sports brand creating footwear, apparel, and accessories that inspire athletes and everyday movers. The PUMA Group owns PUMA, Cobra Golf, and stichd, operates in 120+ countries, and has around 22,000 employees worldwide.
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