Software Engineer Manager – Consumer Mobile App

Software Engineer Manager – Consumer Mobile App

Requirements

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
• 5-7 years of relevant work experience
• Deep hands-on experience building, testing, and deploying large-scale Android and iOS applications (experience in retail tech is a strong plus)
• Strong expertise in mobile development technologies: Swift, SwiftUI (iOS), Kotlin, Jetpack Compose (Android), and Kotlin Multiplatform (proficiency in at least one platform is required)
• Solid experience with modern development pipelines and product delivery practices
• Passionate advocate for rigorous testing, with deep knowledge of modern mobile testing strategies and quality best practices
• Skilled at troubleshooting and resolving complex issues across pre-production and production environments
• Enthusiastic about the role of AI in modern engineering workflows, with ideas for expanding its use across the mobile release lifecycle
• Familiar with using metrics to drive team performance and predictability (e.g., Jira Velocity; Code Climate Velocity is a bonus)
• Committed mentor with the ability to coach junior engineers on software fundamentals and grow experienced engineers into confident technical leads
• Comfortable managing vendor relationships, including contractor hiring and integration of third-party SDKs
• Driven to uplift and empower teams through strong mentorship, fostering a culture of learning, collaboration, and technical excellence
• Demonstrated success in growing and supporting teams in a high-performance, inclusive, and supportive environment
• Experienced in hosting effective team meetings and 1:1s to drive engagement, alignment, and career growth
• Adept at translating product roadmaps into actionable engineering plans and delivering results with focus and clarity
• Skilled in workload planning to ensure sustainable execution across priorities
• Proficient in writing database queries and scripting (Python preferred); familiarity with modern, high-performance web technologies

Responsibilities

• Collaborates and pairs with product team members (UX, engineering, and product management) to create secure, reliable, scalable software solutions
• Documents, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met
• Writes custom code or scripts to automate infrastructure, monitoring services, and test cases
• Works with vendors and partners for the successful implementation of critical tooling and platforms
• Creates meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure that issues are captured and addressed proactively
• Contributes to enterprise-wide tools to drive destructive testing, automation, and engineering empowerment
• Evaluates new technologies for adoption across the enterprise
• Participates in and leads review board sessions to drive consistency across the enterprise
• Fills in on product teams for engineers who are out of the office
• Fields questions from engineers, product teams, or support teams
• Monitors tools and participates in conversations to encourage collaboration across product teams
• Provides application support for software running in production
• Acts as a technical escalation point for the engineers on the team
• Provides leadership, mentoring, and coaching to Software Engineers
• Attracts, retains, and develops top talent to build a world class Software Engineering Team
• Conducts annual and mid-year reviews by reviewing individual development plans and team feedback
• Fosters collaboration with team members to drive consistency across product teams, and finds opportunities to expose engineers to career interests
• Acts as a proponent of modern software development practices
• Guides team members in strategy, alignment, analysis, and execution tasks within and across product teams
• Participates in and contributes to learning activities around modern software design and development core practices (communities of practice)
• Learns, through reading, tutorials, and videos, new technologies and best practices being used within other technology organizations
• Builds relationships with technology leaders at other companies to learn best practices and elegant solutions to common problems

Preferred Qualifications

• 5-7 years of relevant work experience
• Proven ability to balance engineering workloads to align with the strategic direction of Mobile product development
• Strong expertise in mobile development technologies: Swift, SwiftUI (iOS), Kotlin, Jetpack Compose (Android), and Kotlin Multiplatform (proficiency in at least one platform is required)
• Solid experience with modern development pipelines and product delivery practices
• Passionate advocate for rigorous testing, with deep knowledge of modern mobile testing strategies and quality best practices
• Skilled at troubleshooting and resolving complex issues across pre-production and production environments
• Enthusiastic about the role of AI in modern engineering workflows, with ideas for expanding its use across the mobile release lifecycle
• Familiar with using metrics to drive team performance and predictability (e.g., Jira Velocity; Code Climate Velocity is a bonus)
• Committed mentor with the ability to coach junior engineers on software fundamentals and grow experienced engineers into confident technical leads
• Comfortable managing vendor relationships, including contractor hiring and integration of third-party SDKs
• Driven to uplift and empower teams through strong mentorship, fostering a culture of learning, collaboration, and technical excellence
• Demonstrated success in growing and supporting teams in a high-performance, inclusive, and supportive environment
• Experienced in hosting effective team meetings and 1:1s to drive engagement, alignment, and career growth
• Adept at translating product roadmaps into actionable engineering plans and delivering results with focus and clarity
• Skilled in workload planning to ensure sustainable execution across priorities
• Proficient in writing database queries and scripting (Python preferred); familiarity with modern, high-performance web technologies