Mobile Technical Lead

Lendi Group is a market-leading digital platform business focused on transforming the home loan industry. It operates the country's #1 retail mortgage broker – the iconic Aussie Home Loans franchise – and the Australia's #1 digital mortgage brand, Lendi.

Together, with its national network of 1,300 brokers and 230 retail stores, the Lendi Group brands give all Australians the power of choice, and confidence, in one of life's biggest financial decisions.

Building on this market-leading foundation, Lendi Groups vision is to be the undisputed place for Australians to buy and own property through our new Aussie Homes propositions.

Lendi Group's loan book is more than $100b and it was named Australia's Aggregator of the Year for 2024

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion are fundamental to the success of Lendi Group. We're passionate about fostering an environment where our team members feel valued and supported and we celebrate everyone's unique identity.

To learn more about life at Lendi Group check out our blog: 

About the role?

We're looking for a Mobile Technical Lead to take ownership of Lendi Group's mobile engineering direction — leading the vision, architecture, and technical strategy across our mobile app ecosystem.

This role replaces our outgoing Principal Engineer and will lead a talented team of React Native engineers working on two flagship apps:

• Our well-established Australian app with over 50,000 users, and
• Our new, experimental Lendi app leveraging AI features and next-gen user experiences.

You'll balance hands-on engineering with technical leadership, guiding a growing team across Sydney, Brisbane, and Adelaide. You'll influence mobile strategy, mentor engineers, and drive architectural decisions to ensure our apps remain reliable, secure, and performant at scale.

This Sydney-based position involves 3 days a week in our Head Office, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams in product, design, and AI engineering.

• Lead and evolve the mobile engineering vision and technical strategy across multiple React Native apps.
• Mentor, coach, and empower a high-performing mobile team. (Note: we currently have 2 more roles open, bringing the engineering size up to 5 total; further, this is a cross-fucntional team so there are further people involved e.g. from product and design side).
• Architect, design, and own our apps – from the UI to the backend connections - from deep-links to app attribution.
• Oversee mobile releases, CI/CD pipelines, testing, and performance optimisation.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and AI teams to deliver high-quality, scalable user experiences.
• Drive adoption of secure-by-default practices and ensure compliance with Australian data and privacy standards.
• Operate mobile apps at scale, ensuring uptime, reliability, and quality for thousands of users.
• Leverage AI tools and agentic ways of working to improve delivery velocity and code quality.

• 6+ years' experience in mobile software engineering with React Native and TypeScript.
• Proven experience delivering and operating production apps on both iOS and Android.
• Strong foundation in app architecture, CI/CD, and mobile security (encryption, Keychain/Keystore, secure storage).
• Practical experience with mobile attribution (e.g. SKAdNetwork, AdAttributionKit, Appsflyer, Meta Attribution).
• Demonstrated technical leadership – mentoring engineers, reviewing code, and influencing architectural direction.
• Experience managing or guiding cross-functional delivery with design, product, and data teams.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder engagement skills.

Nice-to-have:

• Exposure to AI-assisted development or experimentation with AI-driven app features..

Lendi Group teams operate across Australia and the Philippines. We're committed to creating a new era of seamless connection in property finance by changing the way Australians experience property lending, for good.

A few of the benefits that our people rave about include:

• A vibrant, relaxed, yet professional culture
• Holistic wellbeing programs offering 24/7 support, including medical, mental health, and financial wellbeing services to enable our workforce to thrive at home and work
• Generous Paid Parental Leave: we celebrate our growing Lendi Group family with 18-26 weeks leave for primary carers and up to 4 weeks for secondary carers
• An additional week's Loyalty Leave each year after reaching 3 years of service
• Wellness initiatives with a strong focus on psychological safety
• Social groups such as our industry-leading Women in Technology group.

Our culture is guided by our 3 core values: We Are Stronger United; Act Like You Own It; and Keep Home Loans Human. Our values are part of our core DNA that helps Lendi Group to attract, engage and evolve the right talent and build best-in-class products.

Feeling like you don't meet all the skills listed? That's ok; we are always on the lookout for different skills, experience, and qualities and so we'd still like to hear from you.

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