Job Description

About Us

Since our inception in 2015 in Denmark, Liva has been a pioneer in the field of digital behaviour change. Our ambition is to empower 1 million people by 2030 to improve their health and well-being by preventing and managing chronic conditions through digitally-powered, evidence-based lifestyle interventions.

Headquartered in Copenhagen and London, our collaborations with healthcare systems - including the NHS, life science companies and health insurers - allow us to impact lives at scale.

We care deeply about the people who use our product. Every feature we ship, every improvement we make, has a direct effect on someone trying to change their life. That is not something we take lightly.

This is a fully remote role, and could be based across Europe.

About the Role

Liva spent years building and operating as an internal platform for a single health system. That phase taught us how to build something that genuinely works at scale. Now we are in a different phase: commercial SaaS, multiple markets, real competition, and a product that needs to earn it's place every day.

That shift changes what the team needs to be good at. We are not just building features anymore. We are building a product with conviction, shaped by outcomes rather than requests. The Engineering Manager roles are central to making that shift happen.

What you’ll be doing

The Engineering Manager for Mobile leads the team that builds the Liva app used by coaches and participants every day. This is not a process coordinator role. It is a hands-on leadership position that sits at the intersection of engineering, product, and delivery.

You will manage the team: 1:1s, career conversations, performance, hiring. You will own delivery: sprint rhythm, roadmap execution, unblocking engineers. You will own operational urgency: incidents do not get escalated past you. You will be the person who models a different way of thinking about the work: from output to outcome, from feature factory to product team.

This role is the cultural unlock for the Mobile team. The shift from internal platform to commercial SaaS starts here.

About you:

• You are technically credible. Engineers respect your judgment. You can read a pull request, challenge an architecture decision, and hold a real conversation about tradeoffs, without needing to be the best coder in the room.

• You think in outcomes, not outputs. You push past 'how do we build this' to 'should we build this, and what does success look like.' You are a genuine peer to the Product Manager, not just a delivery counterpart.

• You own urgency. Incidents, blockers, and operational friction stop with you. You do not escalate avoidable problems upward.

• You have managed an engineering team before, with direct people leadership, not just tech lead responsibility.

• You give direct feedback and receive it well. You help people grow without letting performance issues fester.

• You are comfortable working remotely across time zones with a distributed team.

• You have led a mobile engineering team: iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter, or similar. You know the specific challenges: release cycles, device fragmentation, app store constraints.

• You speak English fluently.

And hopefully you’ll also have:

• Built or grown a team from scratch: hired engineers, shaped culture, not just inherited a team.

• You have worked in health, wellness, or B2B SaaS before.

• You are interested in AI-assisted development and already use it in your workflow.

• You have thought seriously about team topologies, platform thinking, or engineering org design

What you’ll get:

• A team that cares about the product, about the mission, and about each other. We take both the work and the culture seriously.

• Real ownership from day one. You will run your team, own your domain, and make consequential decisions without needing sign-off on everything.

• Reporting directly to CPTO. (he works closely with both EMs as a genuine thought partner and sounding board, not a bottleneck).

• A product with genuine impact. The people using Liva are trying to improve their health. What the team ships matters in a way that is easy to connect to.

• Fully remote working.

At Liva, we are a purpose-driven company, and we go to work every day to help people live better lives. Our purpose is in our DNA, and we are always on the lookout for talented people who are eager to evolve and build a life-changing career within global health tech.

We believe in doing business the right way. Liva is committed to both eliminating discrimination and encouraging diversity amongst our workforce. We are committed to developing a representative workforce at all levels, and maintaining a working environment that promotes the health and wellbeing of our employees.

Liva will operate a fair, inclusive and transparent recruitment and selection process. If you require any reasonable adjustments throughout our interview process please let us know and will be happy to accommodate.