Mobile Engineering Manager
FreedomPay · Las Vegas, NV · 1 wk ago
HybridEngineeringFull-time
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of mobile engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, technical excellence, and continuous improvement
- Manage engineers across multiple levels, including Engineer I/II, Senior Engineers, Staff Engineers, and future team growth
- Set clear goals and expectations aligned with departmental and organizational priorities
- Provide regular coaching, mentorship, performance feedback, and structured career development planning
- Conduct performance reviews, promotion assessments, and compensation recommendations
- Partner with Talent Acquisition and engineering leadership to recruit, hire, onboard, and retain top mobile engineering talent
- Effectively allocate engineering resources to balance delivery commitments, team capacity, and long-term sustainability
- Identify staffing, skill, and capacity risks and develop mitigation plans
- Support professional development through training, certifications, conferences, and ongoing learning opportunities
- Facilitate team decision-making, conflict resolution, and cross-functional collaboration
- Improve engineering processes, documentation standards, and team operating practices
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience developing Android applications using Kotlin
- 2+ years of people leadership experience managing and developing engineering teams
- Demonstrated experience leading engineers across varying experience levels
- Experience managing project delivery, engineering roadmaps, and team capacity planning
- Strong understanding of software development lifecycle, Agile methodologies, and engineering best practices
- Experience with source control systems such as Git, including branching and release strategies
- Experience using Azure DevOps, Jira, or similar work management platforms
- Excellent communication, coaching, stakeholder management, and organizational skills
- Proven ability to balance people leadership, technical oversight, and delivery
Preferred Requirements
- Experience working with multi-module mobile applications, SDKs, or shared platform architectures
- Familiarity with Jetpack Compose and modern Android development frameworks
- Experience owning, maintaining, or evolving shared mobile libraries or SDKs used across multiple applications or teams
- Experience building applications within highly regulated or security-sensitive industries such as payments, fintech, healthcare, or financial services
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Gradle optimization, build system architecture, and large-scale engineering environments
- Experience leading distributed or globally dispersed engineering teams
- Experience driving engineering process improvements and organizational scaling initiatives
- Exposure to iOS development concepts and broader mobile platform strategy
- Experience supporting cloud-connected mobile applications and backend platform integrations
Benefits
Fulltime roles provide exceptional benefits including medical, prescription, dental and vision coverage, Life Insurance, Retirement Plans with company match, commission sharing plan, flexible hybrid working environment, and great parental and other leave programs.