Android/ iOS - Tech Lead

Role overview

Android/ iOS - Tech Lead at Lenskart

Set and drive the technical roadmap for the mobile platforms and the middleware, balancing feature delivery against platform and tech-debt investment.

The Role We are looking for a hands-on Tech Lead to own our Android and iOS app platforms end-to-end, along with the Java-based middleware layer that powers them.

Responsibilities

• You will lead a pod of engineers, work closely with Product, Design, Analytics and Business, and be accountable for both how fast we ship and how reliably the platform runs.
• Lead a team of engineers across mobile and backend, owning hiring, mentoring, performance and day-to-day delivery.
• Make and defend architecture decisions, including what ships in the binary versus what is configured dynamically from the server.
• Own release safety across app stores feature flags, staged rollout, kill switches and lead incident response when things break in production.
• Keep Android and iOS at feature parity without duplicating every effort, and keep both platforms fast, stable and within crash and performance budgets.
• Partner with Product and Business to connect technical work to measurable outcomes, and to launch new brands and markets on the existing platform.
• What We Are Looking For
• Significant hands-on experience owning production Android and iOS applications at scale, with genuine depth in at least one and strong command of the other.
• Strong backend engineering ability in Java, including designing services for high availability, handling partial failures, caching correctly in e-commerce paths and managing API versioning for users who cannot be force-upgraded.
• A track record of leading engineering teams — setting technical direction, hiring well, handling underperformance, and negotiating scope and timelines credibly with Product.
• Practical debugging depth: the ability to diagnose cold-start regressions, ANRs, memory leaks, retain cycles and production incidents using real tooling, not just describe them.
• Sound judgment on trade-offs migrations, server-driven configuration, multi-brand and multi-region architecture — with clear reasoning about cost and risk.
• Why Join Us You will own the technology behind how millions of customers experience Lenskart, at a company scaling aggressively across India and internationally.
• The work is high-ownership and high-impact: your decisions directly shape platform reliability, delivery speed and the company's ability to enter new markets. also hiring manager said

Preferred qualifications and skills

• Experience with high-scale consumer e-commerce or similarly demanding mobile products is strongly preferred.

Employment details

• Location: PAN India

Additional role details

• This is a technical leadership role, not a purely managerial one: you will still reason about code, architecture and trade-offs, set technical direction, and step in on the hardest problems yourself What You Will Own
• Mobile platforms: architecture, release management, performance and stability for both the Android and iOS applications .
• Backend & middleware: the Java middleware layer between the apps and core services, handling millions of requests a day with high availability.
• Engineering leadership: technical decision-making, code and architecture reviews, hiring, mentoring and delivery for your pod.
• Release & reliability: release processes, feature rollout safety, observability and the platform's overall reliability posture.
• Scale & expansion: enabling new brand and new market launches on the existing codebase without forking it.