Manager, Mobile Engineering — Search AI Product & Mobile

About the role

We're seeking a Manager - Mobile Engineering to lead the Search API Product & Mobile team. This role involves driving the technical direction of the team, growing the team members, and shaping the future of AI search experiences.

Responsibilities

• Build, grow, and mentor a team of mobile engineers including iOS and Android.
• Build inclusive team culture to make every one belong, refine process to make team members' work easier.
• Drive the cross-team collaborations with Backend and ML teams, even cross organizations.
• Define and drive the architecture for Coupang's search and discovery features, including search results pages, query suggestions, zero-state discovery, and AI-powered recommendations.
• Set technical direction for mobile-side integration of ML models (on-device inference, server-side ranking signal consumption, feature flag-gated experiments).
• Lead architecture reviews and design docs; your decisions have long-term codebase impact.
• Own the end-to-end technical quality bar: performance budgets, memory footprints, latency targets.

Requirements

• 8+ years of industry experience in mobile development and 2 years of people management experience.
• Expert proficiency in either iOS or Android.
• Strong grasp of mobile architecture patterns (MVVM, TCA, Coordinators, etc.) and when to apply them.
• Experience building and shipping features in high-traffic, data-intensive consumer apps.
• Demonstrated experience with A/B experimentation on mobile — instrumentation, analysis, iteration.
• Proven technical leadership: you've shaped architecture decisions, written design docs, and driven alignment across teams.
• Strong understanding of mobile performance: memory management, concurrency, rendering pipeline, network stack.
• Proven technical leadership: you've shaped architecture decisions, written design docs, and driven alignment across teams.
• Track record of mentoring and growing engineers around you.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in search, discovery, recommendation, or feed products on mobile.
• Hands-on experience integrating ML-powered features on Mobile — whether on-device inference (Core ML, ONNX), server-side model APIs, or both.
• Familiarity with LLM-based product features (conversational search, query rewriting, semantic ranking).
• Background in large-scale e-commerce or marketplace mobile apps.
• Comfort reading and reasoning about backend APIs, data pipelines, and ML model outputs (you don't need to build them, but you need to work fluently with the people who do).

Pay & Benefits

Pay is based on several factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. General Description of All Benefits, Medical/Dental/Vision/Life, AD&D insurance, Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) & Health Savings Account (HSA), Long-term/Short-term Disability, Employee Assistance Program (EAP) program, 401K Plan with Company Match, 18-21 days of the Paid Time Off (PTO) a year based on the tenure, 12 Paid Holidays, Paid Parental leave, Pre-tax commuter benefits, MTV - [Free] Electric Car Charging Station, General Description of Other Compensation, Recruitment Process, Application Review - Phone Interview - Onsite (or Virtual Onsite) Interview – Offer, Equal Opportunities for All, Coupang is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to actual or perceived race (including traits historically associated with race, including but not limited to hair texture and protective hair styles), color, religion, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, family and medical leave status, status as a victim of any violent crime, or any other characteristic or class protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.