Mobile Engineering Manager

People Leadership & Team Development

- 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.

Delivery Planning & Execution

- Partner with Product Management to understand business priorities, customer needs, and platform initiatives.

- Participate in technical discovery, solution planning, and effort estimation.

- Communicate priorities, timelines, and customer expectations to the team.

- Develop and maintain delivery plans based on team capacity and engineering estimates.

- Coordinate with Product Delivery and other engineering teams to ensure release readiness and successful execution.

- Drive accountability for delivery commitments and project outcomes.

- Identify execution risks, technical dependencies, and cross-team impacts and escalate as needed.

- Recommend scope, sequencing, or technical tradeoff decisions to support delivery objectives.

Technical Leadership & Code Quality

- Oversee code review practices and ensure adherence to mobile engineering standards and best practices.

- Guide technical design discussions with a focus on scalability, maintainability, performance, and security.

- Define and promote engineering standards, architectural patterns, API guidelines, and coding conventions.

- Ensure mobile applications and platform components maintain clear module boundaries and long-term maintainability.

- Partner with senior engineers to prioritize and manage technical debt.

- Support secure software development practices and compliance requirements, including PCI DSS where applicable.

- Drive continuous improvement of CI/CD pipelines, test automation, build performance, and deployment processes.

- Participate in security reviews, audits, and remediation planning

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.