How Consortia recruits mobile developers
Consortia recruits mobile app developers across iOS, Android and React Native, from a product's first mobile hire through to established app teams, on permanent and contract terms globally.
The platform decision comes first. If the product is native, we search for iOS engineers and Android engineers separately. If it is cross-platform, we look for people who have shipped in that framework. Where a client has not decided, we talk it through at the brief stage, because it changes who we approach.
Senior mobile briefs tend to be precise. A principal iOS role may need Swift and SwiftUI plus experience in a particular sector. An Android lead may need Kotlin, Jetpack Compose and a decade of shipped apps. Before we start, we agree which requirements are fixed and which can flex.
We assess candidates on shipped work: app store history, performance on real devices and how they handle each platform's constraints. On React Native and Expo roles, we look at what they have taken to production and how comfortable they are with the backend services behind the app. Some come from a front end background in React, so we check who has shipped a mobile app before.
Technical assessments for mobile roles are often hands-on, with a timed exercise in the platform's own tools. We make sure candidates know the format and length in advance, so the result reflects what they can do.
Native and cross-platform are different searches. A Swift or Kotlin specialist, a React Native or Flutter engineer and a developer who moves between them bring different strengths, and the right choice depends on the product and the team around it. Our work has ranged from an Android specialist for Bose to a cross-platform developer for a trading app at Marex Spectron.
Office expectations vary, and some mobile teams are in the office five days a week, so we raise it at the start. We also ask whether a candidate is open to contract work, permanent work or both. When a permanent hire is urgent, we discuss whether an experienced contractor could cover the work while the search continues.
