Software Engineering Manager – Mobile

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

📋 Description

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

• Take ownership of hiring, onboarding, performance management, career progression, and team retention.

• Conduct regular one-on-one meetings and offer direct, actionable feedback.

• Collaborate with technical leaders to foster a culture centered on innovation, quality, and continuous improvement.

• Establish and maintain engineering standards regarding code quality, testing, security, 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 throughout the engineering organization.

• Propel the reduction of technical debt and oversee platform health.

• Write loosely coupled, well-tested, maintainable code while also taking on leadership responsibilities.

• Leverage AI tools such as Claude Code, Copilot, or Cursor to enhance development speed.

• Work alongside Product Management to devise technical solutions that address customer requirements.

• Collaborate with Infrastructure Engineering and Security teams on infrastructure, releases, and security protocols.

• Identify and eliminate blockers, manage inter-team dependencies, and escalate risks as necessary.

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

• Provide rotational on-call support with the team.

⛳️ Requirements

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

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

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

• Familiarity with the Expo build tool is a plus.

• Experience working with cloud-based development environments, primarily AWS.

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

• Experience with automated infrastructure provisioning and continuous deployment processes.

• Understanding of relational databases such as Postgres, and non-relational data stores like Redis and OpenSearch.

• Familiarity with event-driven application architecture concepts.

• Knowledge of software monitoring, telemetry, and incident response management.

• Excellent communication abilities; able to articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and convey business context to engineers.

• Experience with generative AI programming tools.

• Skills in applying engineering metrics to enhance team effectiveness.

• Experience utilizing product metrics to drive business value.

• Availability for on-call support on a rotational basis is essential.

🏝️ Benefits

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