Head of App Development

🕒 July 27

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

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Releaf

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2024

🏥 Healthcare

💊 Pharmaceuticals

💰 $6.7M Series B on 2024-02

Healthcare • Pharmaceuticals

Releaf is a UK-based medical cannabis clinic that helps patients access prescribed THC-rich cannabis therapies. It provides expert consultations (chat support Mon–Fri), guides new patients through eligibility and how treatment works, offers starter kits and delivery-to-door services, and publishes patient stories, research, legal and educational content focused on medical cannabis for a wide range of conditions (chronic pain, neurological disorders, mental health, cancer support, etc. ). The organisation positions itself as a clinical and educational resource shaping the UK medical cannabis sector.

📋 Description

• Own the technical strategy, development and roadmap for Releaf's native iOS and Android applications • Lead the design and implementation of features built on Apple HealthKit and the Apple Health app, including reading, writing and visualising health data • Integrate Apple Watch data, including activity, heart rate, sleep and other relevant metrics, into patient-facing features • Build equivalent health data experiences on Android using Health Connect and Wear OS, ensuring feature parity across platforms • Work closely with Product, Design, Clinical and Data Protection teams to ensure features are clinically sound, intuitive, and compliant with healthcare data regulations • Own app performance, stability, release management and the end-to-end App Store / Google Play submission process • Establish engineering best practice across testing, CI/CD, code review and mobile security • Monitor platform changes from Apple and Google, particularly around HealthKit, Health Connect, privacy frameworks and wearable APIs, and advise the business on implications • Contribute to the wider technology strategy as a senior member of the engineering leadership team • Work with a designer on UI/UX and develop applications with the development team to connect them to the backend using APIs

🎯 Requirements

• Proven experience leading native app development for both iOS and Android, ideally including time as a senior or lead engineer before moving into management • Hands-on experience building features using Apple HealthKit and integrating with the Apple Health app • Direct experience working with Apple Watch/health data — reading and presenting metrics such as heart rate, activity rings, sleep or workout data within a consumer app • Working knowledge of the Android equivalent stack — Health Connect and Wear OS — and experience building comparable cross-platform health features • Portfolio of apps that we can test the UI and functionality • Strong understanding of mobile UI/UX principles, particularly around presenting health data in a way that is clear, reassuring and easy to act on • Experience managing the full app lifecycle, including App Store and Google Play submission, review processes, and ongoing release management • A track record of building, leading and growing high-performing engineering teams • Comfortable working in a regulated environment, with an understanding of data protection and patient privacy considerations (UK GDPR, or equivalent) • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate technical decisions for non-technical stakeholders • Experience in healthcare, digital health, or a regulated consumer product environment is desirable • Familiarity with Swift/SwiftUI and Kotlin/Jetpack Compose at a technical depth sufficient to review architecture and code where needed is desirable • Experience with remote patient monitoring, chronic condition management apps, or similar health-tracking products is desirable • Exposure to clinical safety standards or medical device software regulations (e.g. UKCA/MHRA, IEC 62304) is desirable, though not required • Experience working alongside clinical teams to validate the safety and accuracy of health-related features is desirable

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible working • Personalised training and development • Private health insurance • Employee Assistance Programmes • Access to employee perks • Releaf staff patient benefits