Overview

We’re on the lookout for an experienced and passionate Senior Mobile Software Engineer to join Podfather’s growing engineering team. This is your opportunity to make a big impact, not just through your own code, but by supporting and mentoring others to succeed.

As a Senior Mobile Engineer, you’ll be a key contributor in delivering scalable, high-quality software that our customers rely on every day. You’ll work on a modern PHP or a mobile development framework/JavaScript stack, designing and developing new features, improving system performance, and solving complex challenges, while helping more junior engineers grow and thrive.

If you love clean code, smart system design, and making things better every day, we want to hear from you.

Please note: to apply for this role you’ll need to send a covering letter and a copy of your CV by email to the address provided in the job posting.

Responsibilities

• Lead from the front: Deliver elegant, scalable code and guide technical decisions across your team.


• Coach & mentor: Support junior and mid-level engineers, helping them grow technically and professionally.


• Solve complex problems: Identify and tackle system bottlenecks, performance issues, and security risks.


• Own your work: Take responsibility for the design, delivery, and quality of significant technical projects.


• Drive improvement: Champion engineering best practices across testing, CI/CD, observability, and documentation.


• Collaborate widely: Work with Product, DevOps, QA, and Customer Success to build solutions with real business value.


• Support secure development: Apply secure coding practices to keep systems safe, stable, and resilient.


• Champion continuous learning: Stay curious and push for improvements in systems and processes.

Tech Stack

• Languages: PHP or a mobile development framework, JavaScript


• Databases: SQL


• Version Control: Git


• Testing: Automated testing across backend and frontend


• CI/CD: Integrated pipelines to build, test, and deploy


• Other: API development, system monitoring, cloud-native tooling

Required skills

• Solid experience developing production-grade software in a collaborative team setting.


• A strong grasp of software engineering principles and patterns.


• Proven experience mentoring or supporting more junior engineers.


• Designing scalable, secure, and maintainable systems.


• A proactive mindset; someone who spots opportunities for improvement and acts on them.


• Clear, candid communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.


• A strong sense of ownership and pride in the work you deliver.

Nice to have skills

• Experience with legacy system refactoring or performance tuning.


• Incident management or system debugging at scale.


• Understanding of secure development practices and compliance requirements.


• Passion for improving engineering culture through collaboration, feedback, and knowledge sharing.

Why you’ll love working at Podfather

We’re a growing SaaS business with a big mission: to help businesses transform how they manage deliveries, fleets, and field operations. You’ll join a supportive, collaborative team where your voice matters, your work is valued, and your development is taken seriously. At Podfather, we’re guided by our core values—reliable, innovative, determined, collaborative, candid, and caring. You’ll see these in action every day in how we work together, solve problems, and support our customers.

What We Offer

• A hybrid working model (office + home)


• A friendly and supportive team culture


• Flexible working hours and work-life balance


• Ongoing personal development and mentoring


• Regular team events and social activities


• The chance to shape the future of a growing tech company

Sound like your kind of role? We’d love to hear from you.

Salary & Benefits

• Salary: £40,000-£60,000 depending on experience


• 30 days holiday a year, plus a holiday purchase scheme


• Flexible working options


• High-spec workstation, multiple monitors, and your choice of operating system


• Thorough onboarding and training support


• A commitment to your development through an individual training budget


• A great office environment with complimentary fruit, drinks, ice cream and snacks


• Company social events


• Life assurance with remote GP appointments, mental health support, physiotherapy, and employee assistance


• Bike to work scheme


• Generous pension plan

Job details

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level


• Employment type: Full-time


• Job function: Information Technology


• Industries: Software Development