Job Summary
Tapadoo is a specialist mobile app development company based in Dublin, Ireland. Established in 2009, the company designs, develops, and maintains high-quality iOS and Android apps for clients across sectors including healthcare, fintech, and public services.
Job Description
About the Project:
Tapadoo, a leading Dublin-based mobile app development company, is launching a transformative 18 -month Innovation Boost project in collaboration with Ulster University. The project focuses on developing and embedding an AI-driven software development framework into our mobile app lifecycle. Leveraging principles of Agentic AI and other AI techniques, we aim to significantly enhance development efficiency, software quality, scalability, and user experience personalisation.
The Role:
We are seeking a highly motivated Project Manager to drive this strategic initiative. You will be central to researching, designing, developing, piloting and integrating various AI tools and custom models across Tapadoo's entire development workflow. This unique role sits at the exciting intersection of cutting-edge AI research and its practical application in a commercial mobile development environment.
Key Responsibilities:
Effective management and delivery of the following stages of the project:
Research & Evaluation: Investigate, evaluate, and select appropriate AI tools and techniques for tasks identified in our work plan, including:
- Code generation & developer assistance.
- Automated testing & debugging (including AI-driven test case generation).
- API integration & management support.
- UI/Asset optimisation.
- AI-enhanced security scanning within CI/CD.
- App localisation support (leveraging NLP).
- User behavior analysis for personalisation insights.
- Performance monitoring and optimisation.
Development & Piloting: Develop proof-of-concepts and pilot AI solutions within controlled environments and eventually on live client projects, focusing on areas like adaptive UI/UX personalisation.
Integration & Scaling: Integrate validated AI tools and models smoothly into Tapadoo’s existing development workflows, including native mobile (iOS/Android) processes and CI/CD pipelines. Support the scaling of successful solutions across teams.
Collaboration & Knowledge Transfer: Work closely with Tapadoo’s engineering, QA and DevOps teams, as well as academic researchers at Ulster University. Actively participate in documentation, creating best-practice guides, and conducting internal knowledge transfer sessions to ensure long-term sustainability.
Validation & Refinement: Rigorously test AI implementations, gather performance data, analyse results and iterate on solutions based on real-world feedback.
What We Offer:
- A unique opportunity to lead a high-impact AI innovation project in a commercial setting.
- Collaboration with leading academic researchers and experienced mobile app developers.
- Exposure to cutting-edge AI technologies and their practical application.
- Support to undertake the Innovation Boost postgraduate diploma in Innovation Management during the project.
- A dynamic and collaborative work environment at a leading Irish mobile app company.
We believe that a diverse team makes for better products and a better workplace. Our team comes from all over the world and from a variety of backgrounds, cultures and life experiences. If you like the look of the job, but feel you do not meet all the requirements, feel free to drop us an email at recruiting@tapadoo.com; we are happy to discuss the role and see if it may be a fit for you.
The successful graduate will lead this project, in a supportive partnership with Ulster University as part of the InterTradeIreland Innovation Boost Programme and will also have the opportunity to avail of a Post Graduate Diploma with Queen’s University Belfast as part of the employment offering.
Benefits:
● Fully funded Post-Graduate Diploma awarded by Queen’s University Belfast.
Interviews will be held approximately week commencing: 07/07/2026