Senior Engineering Manager, Mobile
$240,000–$270,000 year
HybridPalo Alto, California, United States
Job Summary
Lead a high-performing mobile engineering organization of 10+ engineers, fostering a culture of ownership and customer obsession. Drive delivery of high-quality mobile experiences for consumer fintech and marketplace products while executing the mobile engineering strategy. Shape architecture, platform direction, and technical standards across native, cross-platform, and hybrid approaches. Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to define technical vision and roadmap priorities. Champion engineering excellence by establishing best practices in code quality, testing, CI/CD, and AI-assisted development. Balance near-term roadmap execution with long-term platform investments as the organization evolves toward a product-pod model.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of engineering management experience leading high-performing mobile engineering teams
- ideally with 5–10 direct reports
- Strong mobile engineering background with deep experience across native and cross-platform frameworks
- ability to evaluate emerging mobile technologies and make the right call for the team's stage
- Experience defining and evolving mobile architecture at scale
- including evaluating tradeoffs between native and cross-platform approaches
- Background building consumer mobile products
- ideally in fintech, marketplaces, or other high-growth technology companies
- Proven success scaling engineering organizations through periods of technical and organizational change
- in both startup and larger company environments
- Strong technical leadership with a track record of delivering complex products
- while balancing technical excellence with pragmatic business outcomes
- Experience introducing modern engineering practices
- including AI-assisted development, automation, and agentic workflows that improve developer productivity and software quality
- Excellent communication, systems thinking, and cross-functional collaboration skills
- with the ability to influence Product, Design, Data, and Engineering leaders
- Passion for coaching engineers, building high-performing teams, and advocating for mobile-specific considerations
- such as performance, offline capabilities, and network efficiency
- exceptional engineering leadership
- deep mobile expertise
- a strong point of view on modern software development
- including how AI and agentic workflows can improve engineering productivity, quality, and developer experience
- This role is based in Palo Alto
- and involves a hybrid work approach
- balancing in-office collaboration with the ability to work remotely
Desired Qualifications
- ideally with 5–10 direct reports
- ideally in fintech, marketplaces, or other high-growth technology companies
- in both startup and larger company environments
- while balancing technical excellence with pragmatic business outcomes
- including AI-assisted development, automation, and agentic workflows that improve developer productivity and software quality
- such as performance, offline capabilities, and network efficiency
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