Release Management Engineer – Mobile

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take charge of the complete release process for Phantom’s iOS and Android applications.

• Oversee release schedules, branches, versioning, build promotions, and submissions to app stores.

• Ensure readiness for releases by coordinating with engineering, QA, product, and other stakeholders.

• Lead the go/no-go decision-making process while clearly communicating risks, blockers, and any outstanding issues.

• Manage TestFlight, App Store Connect, Google Play Console, along with staged or phased rollouts.

• Coordinate hotfixes, emergency releases, and rollback plans as necessary.

• Monitor the health of releases, including tracking crashes, regressions, rollout status, and any user-impacting issues.

• Troubleshoot issues related to builds, signing, submissions, and deployments.

• Enhance and automate repetitive release tasks utilizing tools such as GitHub Actions, Fastlane, Bash, or Python.

• Maintain comprehensive release documentation, checklists, runbooks, and status reports.

• Ensure compliance of releases with Apple and Google policies and submission requirements.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to enhance the reliability and reproducibility of mobile builds.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 3 years of experience in release engineering, mobile DevOps, build engineering, or a related field.

• Direct experience in releasing production iOS and Android applications.

• In-depth knowledge of App Store Connect, TestFlight, Google Play Console, mobile signing, provisioning, and certificates.

• Experience working with mobile CI/CD systems such as GitHub Actions, Bitrise, CircleCI, Buildkite, or similar tools.

• Proficient in managing release branches, versioning, hotfixes, and phased rollouts.

• Skilled at troubleshooting mobile build and deployment challenges.

• Familiarity with scripting or automation techniques.

• Strong organizational and communication skills, with the ability to coordinate across functions.

• Capable of staying composed and making clear decisions during time-sensitive releases or incidents.

🏝️ Benefits

• Phantom is the modern money app embraced by tens of millions worldwide.

• Our product provides a comprehensive solution for managing, spending, and growing money in a single, intuitive platform.

• We are seeking a Release Management Engineer to take ownership of and continually enhance the release process for our iOS and Android applications.

• This position is ideal for a hands-on individual who has a solid understanding of mobile build and deployment systems and enjoys coordinating complex releases across various teams.

• Manage release schedules, branches, versioning, build promotions, and app store submissions.

• Ensure readiness for releases through collaboration with engineering, QA, product, and other stakeholders.

• Lead go/no-go decisions, clearly communicating risks, blockers, and outstanding issues.

• Supervise TestFlight, App Store Connect, Google Play Console, and staged or phased rollouts.

• Coordinate hotfixes, emergency releases, and rollback plans as required.

• Monitor release health, including crashes, regressions, rollout status, and user-impacting issues.

• Troubleshoot build, signing, submission, and deployment failures.

• Improve and automate repetitive release tasks using tools such as GitHub Actions, Fastlane, Bash, or Python.

• Uphold clear release documentation, checklists, runbooks, and status reporting.

• Ensure compliance of releases with Apple and Google policies and submission requirements.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to enhance the reliability and reproducibility of mobile builds.