Software Engineer Senior Manager, Consumer Mobile App (Remote)

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Works and negotiates with partners on the staffing of skilled engineering positions on product teams
• Contributes to and makes recommendations for strategic plans in support of key objectives in a timely and fiscally responsible manner
• Supports and nurtures strategic vendor relationships; recommends ways to influence vendors that aligned to domain, portfolio, and enterprise strategic objectives
• Evaluates new technologies for adoption across the enterprise
• Helps to identify and demonstrate emerging technologies for adoption by product teams
• 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
• Participates in and leads review board sessions to drive consistency across the enterprise
• Makes suggestions that help drive operational excellence to create internal customer satisfaction and meet operational metrics
• 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
• Learns, through reading, tutorials, and videos, new technologies and best practices being used within other technology organizations
• 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
• 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
• 6 years of relevant work experience
• Mastery of development, testing and deployment of Android & iOS applications
• Mastery of Swift, Swift UI, Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Kotlin Multiplatform
• Mastery of modern product development processes and pipelines
• Mastery of modern testing methodologies
• Mastery in effective troubleshooting and issue resolution techniques
• Mastery in effective system monitoring and log analysis techniques
• Proficient in writing queries against a database
• Proficient in a modern scripting language (preferably Python)
• Proficient in modern web applications utilizing technologies such as ReactJS and Node.js
• Capable of understanding complicated systems quickly
• Proficiency in guiding more junior team members through Software Engineering fundamentals
• Mastery managing and growing team members in a professional setting
• Mastery balancing workloads across teams
• Experience managing vendor relationships
• Experience with translating high level strategy to tactical execution
• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through a bachelor's degree or equivalent in a related field

Nice to Have

• Experience managing vendor relationships
• Proficiency in guiding more junior team members through Software Engineering fundamentals
• Mastery managing and growing team members in a professional setting
• Mastery balancing workloads across teams
• Experience with translating high level strategy to tactical execution

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a related field