Software Engineering Manager - Mobile

Position Summary:
The Software Engineering Manager role is responsible for leading a team of software engineers working to implement features and functionality on our mobile application and supporting systems. In this role, you’ll combine strong technical judgment and hands on coding with a genuine passion for developing people - driving both engineering excellence and meaningful product outcomes that impact athletes’ futures. You will work closely with product to negotiate the scope and shape the features to deliver business value. Members of the team are responsible for the development, maintenance, and operation of our Reactive Native mobile application and its related service as well as administration web platform. Software developed by this team includes a React Native mobile application deployed to both the iOS and Android stores, as well as backend services in Typescript, Go or Python, deployed via Kubernetes to AWS infrastructure, and communicating with multiple backing services (PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch. Kafka) and SaaS tools (Auth0, Shopify, Contentful).

Position Responsibilities:
People Management & Coaching

Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 4 - 6 software engineers across varying experience levels

Own the full employee lifecycle for your team: hiring, onboarding, performance management, career development, and retention

Conduct regular 1:1s and provide direct, actionable feedback that helps engineers grow

Work with other technical leaders to create a culture of innovation, quality, and continuous improvement.

Technical Leadership

Work across engineering teams to set and uphold engineering standards for code quality, testing, security, and system design

Participate in and guide architectural decisions, ensuring solutions are scalable and maintainable

Stay technically engaged and meaningfully review design documents, unblock engineers, and assess trade-offs — without being in the critical path of delivery

Champion engineering best practices across the broader engineering organization

Drive reduction of technical debt and proactively manage platform health

Delivery & Execution

Work with your engineers, in both a hands-on and leadership capacity, to develop loosely coupled, well tested, and maintainable code

Use AI tools such as Claude Code, Copilot or Cursor to accelerate development

Collaborate with the Product Management team to craft technical solutions that meet internal and external customer needs.

Collaborate with Infrastructure Engineering and Security teams to employ standard infrastructure components, release code with increasing volume and velocity in a self-service fashion and meet company security standard.

Identify and remove blockers, manage dependencies across teams, and escalate risks early.

Balance short-term delivery needs with long-term platform investments

Provide on-call support on a rotating basis with your team (roughly 1 week per month; very low incident rate).

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

5+ years minimum experience in React Native mobile engineering

Experience maintaining and extending mobile back-end or other API applications in an engineering management or tech lead role

Experience deploying binaries to the Google Play and iOS app stores. Experience using Expo built tool a plus

Experience with cloud-based development environments (primarily AWS)

Experience with 12-factor applications and modern development practices.

Experience with automated infrastructure provisioning and continuous deployment.

Familiarity with relational databases (e.g. Postgres) and non-relational data stores (e.g. Redis, OpenSearch)

Familiarity with event-driven application architecture concepts.

Familiarity with software monitoring, telemetry, and incident response handling

Excellent communication skills; able to translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders and business context for engineers

Experience with generative AI programming assistants

Experience working with and applying engineering metrics to increase the effectiveness of an engineering team

Experience working with product metrics to deliver business value

Ability to provide on-call support on a rotating basis is required.

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