Head of Mobile Engineering (iOS & Android)

Who We Are

NEXT Ventures is where ambition takes shape and momentum becomes movement. As a global platform revolutionising access to performance-based capital, we empower the world’s most driven individuals to rise. Through our flagship brand, FundedNext, we empower dreamers to become doers, and potential to turn into performance. With 500+ driven minds across five countries, we power a global rhythm: 220,000+ daily users from 170+ nations, each chasing greatness in their own way.

Your Role in Our Mission

As our Head of Mobile Engineering, you will be the ultimate technical and organizational authority behind the apps our global community relies on every day. You will own our global mobile strategy, set the architectural vision across iOS and Android, and lead a multi-tiered organization of Mobile Tech Leads and Senior/Mid-level Mobile Developers. While Tech Leads run day-to-day squad execution, you own the overarching architecture, engineering standards, talent strategy and system performance. You bring a global engineering mindset from scaling mobile products across diverse markets, networks and regulatory environments, and you stay deeply technical, ready to dive into complex bottlenecks and critical code paths, so that every user, in every market, gets a seamless experience.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Strategic and technical vision: define the multi-year mobile roadmap, core architectural blueprints and build-vs.-buy decisions across native iOS and Android

• Multi-tier engineering leadership:

  • Directly manage and mentor Mobile Tech Leads and senior engineers

  • Drive recruitment, technical bar-raising, performance calibration and succession planning

  • Establish engineering career ladders, architectural review boards (ARBs) and high-accountability delivery rituals

• Hands-on architectural governance:

  • Lead deep-dive architectural reviews and solve P0 production bottlenecks

  • Benchmark client-side performance

  • Contribute foundational code/POCs on greenfield initiatives

• Global-scale latency and edge resilience: sub-second responsiveness across distributed regions and varied networks (3G/4G/5G, high-jitter) via edge caching, local-first sync engines and intelligent protocol selection (HTTP/3 QUIC, gRPC)

• High traffic and concurrency: resilient client-side state machines, adaptive rate-limiting, request coalescing and graceful degradation that withstand massive user spikes without cascading backend failures

• 0-to-1 multi-app and platform strategy: modular, domain-driven architectures and shared core SDKs that let multiple squads ship independently with zero-downtime releases and strict boundaries

• Enterprise-grade security and compliance: zero-trust mobile security across global jurisdictions, including hardware-backed cryptography, RASP, certificate pinning and data privacy compliance

• Executive and cross-functional alignment:

  • Partner with the CTO, VP of Engineering and Product Leadership

  • Align mobile capabilities with global expansion, API gateway design and backend distributed systems

• Engineering excellence and observability:

  • Institutionalize automated CI/CD, release train governance and feature-flagging infrastructure

  • Track real-time telemetry: P95/P99 latency, crash-free sessions (>99.95%), ANRs and cold-start metrics

What You Bring

• 10+ years of software engineering with deep roots in mobile development

• 4+ years in senior leadership (Staff/Principal Mobile Engineer, Engineering Manager or Head of Mobile) managing Tech Leads and multi-squad teams

• Proven track record architecting and scaling high-traffic mobile apps (millions of MAUs) for global markets, with awareness of localization, device fragmentation and international infrastructure constraints

• Demonstrated 0-to-1 success, from whiteboard architecture to global production launch

• Mastery of native iOS and Android internals (memory models, OS thread scheduling, rendering pipelines, binary optimization)

• Ability to translate complex mobile performance and architectural trade-offs into clear strategic outcomes for C-level stakeholders

• Native iOS: Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, Combine, Swift Concurrency (async/await, Actors), modular SPM/Bazel builds, Xcode Instruments

• Native Android: Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Coroutines, Flow, multi-module Gradle/Bazel architecture, Android Profiler

• Distributed and edge networking: HTTP/2, HTTP/3 (QUIC), gRPC, GraphQL, REST, WebSockets, CDN/edge caching, TLS/certificate pinning

• Data and offline-first engines: SQLite, Room, Realm, CoreData, SwiftData, CRDTs / delta sync

• DevOps, release and telemetry: Fastlane, GitHub Actions / Bitrise / CircleCI, automated E2E testing (XCTest, Espresso, Maestro), Datadog, Sentry, Firebase Performance

X-Factor

• Familiarity with cross-platform frameworks (Flutter or React Native) and their native trade-offs

• Ability to join early

Your Journey

• Interview with TA Team

• Interview with Tech Team

• Technical Assessment

• Final interview with leadership

Why Join NEXT

• Competitive compensation: base salary and performance incentives benchmarked for senior engineering leadership

• Relocation package: employment pass/visa sponsorship, relocation allowance, housing/settling-in assistance and family medical coverage in Malaysia

• Greenfield ownership: build a world-class mobile department and flagship product suite from the ground up, with full executive backing