Software Engineer Manager, Consumer Mobile App (Remote)

About the Role

Key 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
• 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 solutions

Requirements

• Must be eighteen years of age or older
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States
• 5+ years of relevant work experience
• Mastery with hands-on experience with development, testing and deployment of large Android & iOS applications
• Mastery with hands-on experience with Swift, Swift UI (iOS), Kotlin, Jetpack Compose (Android), Kotlin Multiplatform
• Mastery with modern product development processes and pipelines (Github actions a plus)
• Mastery of modern testing methodologies and best practices for Mobile applications
• Mastery in effective troubleshooting and issue resolution techniques for pre-prod and prod environments
• Proficiency in guiding junior team members through Software Engineering fundamentals
• Proficiency in training experienced engineers to become independent team leads
• Skilled in writing queries against a database
• Skilled in a modern scripting language (preferably Python)
• Knowledgeable of modern web applications utilizing technologies such as ReactJS and Node.js
• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through a bachelor's degree or equivalent in a related field

Nice to Have

• Experience with large retail applications
• Experience with AI integration and increasing team use of AI during release cycles
• Knowledge of metrics to measure team productivity (Jira Velocity, Code Climate Velocity)
• Experience managing vendor relationships for hiring contractors and managing 3rd-party SDKs
• Experience translating team roadmaps into efficient execution
• Experience balancing team workload against product roadmap
• Experience with modern web applications using ReactJS and Node.js

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a related field