Lead Mobile Engineer

Find your fit — and your future. We are looking for a Lead Mobile Engineer to provide end-to-end development leadership for Levi's consumer mobile app.

About Levi Strauss & Co

• Bengaluru, India Calling all originals: At Levi Strauss & Co., you can be yourself — and be part of something bigger.
• We’re a company of people who like to forge our own path and leave the world better than we found it.
• Who believe that what makes us different makes us stronger.
• So add your voice.

Responsibilities

• Make an impact.
• This role owns overall development execution for the mobile experience by solving problems with the right framework, architecture, and tools and partners closely with product, backend/platform engineering, architects, and design in a fast-paced agile environment.
• Mobile Engineer brings a DevOps mindset, owning the write, test, monitor, and maintain lifecycle of what the team builds end-to-end.
• Mobile Engineer guides technical direction, drives code quality, mentors junior and mid-level developers, and ensures secure, performant, production-ready delivery across the app, integrations, testing, and AI-assisted engineering practices.
• Lead technical planning, design decisions, and delivery for the mobile app from implementation approach through release readiness.
• Embrace a DevOps mindset - own the full lifecycle of what you build, including writing, testing, deploying, monitoring, and maintaining code in production, and fulfilling on-call duties for the app.
• Contribute to the technical vision for Levi's web & app platforms, defining patterns, architecture, and best practices for the team.
• Design, build, and maintain high-performance, accessible mobile experiences using React Native, integrated with backend/commerce APIs, with attention to state management, offline handling, and caching.
• Own app performance, stability, and platform health like startup time, responsiveness, crash rates, and app store ratings — and manage release processes (app store submission, versioning, phased rollouts).
• Champion telemetry and observability by instrumenting the app with crash reporting, logging, and monitoring to proactively detect issues and uplevel the team's operational maturity.
• Lead code reviews, architecture reviews, and technical standards; own test strategy (unit, integration, end-to-end) as a shared team responsibility to reduce production defects.
• Mentor developers, play an active role in hiring and growing the team, and lead by example on team agreements and best practices.
• Foster an open, collaborative culture with honest communication, peer support, continuous learning and stay connected across the broader platform team via stand-ups, brown bags, and demos.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders like product, design, and backend/platform engineering to align on requirements, API contracts, and integration points.
• Drive agile execution with sprint planning, backlog refinement, estimation.
• RESTful/GraphQL APIs, headless/composable commerce platforms CI/CD: Git-based workflows, automated pipelines, mobile release tooling (Fastlane or similar), app store submission processes

Requirements

• You 8+ years of professional software development experience, with significant depth in mobile app development.
• Proven experience leading the technical direction of a consumer-facing mobile app, ideally in e-commerce or retail.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and elevate the technical skills of other engineers.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.
• Hands-on experience using AI tools (e.g., Claude, Copilot, ChatGPT) to accelerate coding, debugging, testing, and documentation, including writing effective prompts and critically validating AI-generated output for accuracy, security, and production quality.
• Understanding of responsible AI practices, including data privacy and safe handling of enterprise information.

Preferred

• Crash monitoring, performance profiling, automated testing (unit/integration/e2e) with Appium, Selenium, and Java Observability: Experience with mobile telemetry, crash reporting, and monitoring tools (e.g., Firebase Crashlytics, Datadog RUM, New Relic Mobile, Sentry) to drive proactive monitoring and operational maturity

Mobile

React Native, JavaScript/TypeScript, native iOS (Swift) and Android (Kotlin) fundamentals for native module work

Cloud

Any major cloud provider (Azure, GCP, or AWS) LOCATION Bengaluru, India FULL TIME/PART TIME Full time Current LS&Co Employees, apply via your Workday account.