Software Engineering Manager – Mobile

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

📋 Description

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of 4–6 software engineers.

• Take responsibility for hiring, onboarding, performance management, career growth, and employee retention.

• Conduct regular one-on-one meetings and provide constructive feedback.

• Set engineering standards for code quality, testing protocols, security measures, and system design.

• Engage in and direct scalable, maintainable architectural decisions.

• Review design documentation, assist engineers in overcoming obstacles, and evaluate technical trade-offs.

• Advocate for engineering best practices and work to minimize technical debt.

• Oversee platform health and performance.

• Write loosely coupled, well-tested, maintainable code while taking a hands-on leadership approach.

• Utilize AI tools like Claude Code, Copilot, or Cursor to enhance development speed.

• Collaborate with Product Management to devise technical solutions.

• Work alongside Infrastructure Engineering and Security teams on infrastructure, release processes, and security protocols.

• Identify obstacles, manage dependencies across teams, and escalate risks as needed.

• Balance immediate delivery demands with long-term platform investments.

• Share on-call support responsibilities with the team.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in React Native mobile engineering.

• Experience in maintaining and extending mobile back-end or other API applications in an engineering management or tech lead capacity.

• Proven experience in deploying binaries to the Google Play and iOS app stores.

• Familiarity with the Expo build tool is a plus.

• Experience with cloud-based development environments, particularly AWS.

• Knowledge of 12-factor applications and contemporary development practices.

• Experience with automated infrastructure provisioning and continuous deployment.

• Understanding of relational databases such as Postgres.

• Familiarity with non-relational data stores like Redis and OpenSearch.

• Knowledge of event-driven application architecture concepts.

• Familiarity with software monitoring, telemetry, and incident response management.

• Exceptional communication skills; capable of translating technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders and conveying business context to engineers.

• Experience with generative AI programming assistants.

• Proven ability to apply engineering metrics to enhance team effectiveness.

• Experience leveraging product metrics to create business value.

• Ability to provide on-call support on a rotating schedule is essential.

🏝️ Benefits

• Rotating on-call support approximately 1 week per month with a very low incident rate.