We're looking for a Mobile Engineering Manager to lead one of our mobile engineering teams building the company consumer experience on iOS and Android. You'll own the delivery of features that millions of users interact with daily, from discovery and ordering to real-time tracking and payments.
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This is a hands-on leadership role. You won't be writing code daily, but you'll be close enough to the codebase to make informed architectural decisions, unblock your engineers, and maintain high technical standards. You'll lead a team of 6–10 mobile engineers and partner closely with product, design, and backend teams.
We practice eXtreme Programming (XP) principles, including pair programming, TDD, and continuous delivery. What matters is that you believe quality enables speed and you're excited to lead.
Responsibilities:
- Lead a team of 6–10 mobile engineers (iOS and Android) in planning, building, and shipping customer-facing features.
- Own mobile release quality — drive testing strategy, monitor crash rates and performance metrics, and maintain release cadence.
- Partner with product managers and designers to shape project development, balancing user impact with technical feasibility.
- Make architectural decisions on mobile patterns (modularization, dependency injection, reactive patterns, navigation architecture).
- Coach and develop engineers through regular 1:1s, pairing sessions, and career development conversations.
- Manage cross-team dependencies with backend, platform, and infrastructure teams.
- Contribute to mobile engineering standards and practices across the company.
Qualifications:
You Must Have:
- 6+ years of hands-on mobile engineering experience (iOS, Android, or cross-platform).
- 2+ years leading and managing mobile engineering teams, including hiring, performance, and career development.
- Deep understanding of mobile app architecture and the ability to evaluate trade-offs.
- Experience shipping mobile apps at scale (100K+ DAU) with a focus on performance, reliability, and user experience.
- Strong automated testing mindset and a commitment to CI/CD principles.
- Experience with mobile release management, feature flagging, and gradual rollouts.
- Comfort working in a fast-paced, iterative environment where priorities shift based on customer data.
Bonus if You Have:
- Experience with XP practices (TDD, pair/mob programming).
- Familiarity with Domain-Driven Design (DDD) or event-driven architecture.
- Experience specifically with Swift/SwiftUI and Kotlin/Jetpack Compose.
- Background in e-commerce, delivery, or marketplace mobile apps.
- AWS or cloud platform experience.
- Experience working across time zones or with distributed teams.
