ENGINEERING MANAGER - MOBILE ENGINEERING

About Impact Analytics Impact Analytics is an agentic-first AI software company transforming retail merchandising through cutting-edge AI, LLMs, and Generative AI technologies. As a fast-growing Series D company with deployments across five continents, it is building both industry-leading merchandising solutions and foundational AI agents that are redefining how retail decisions are made. What makes Impact Analytics unique is its combination of deep retail domain expertise, strong innovation culture, and global presence. It is one of the few India-born AI companies recognized globally by organizations like Fortune, Gartner, and the Inc. 5000. For candidates looking to work on next-generation AI products with global scale and real-world impact, Impact Analytics is an exciting place to build your career. Here’s a link to our website: www.impactanalytics.co.

Some Of Our Accolades Include

• Ranked as one of America's Fastest-Growing Companies by Financial Times for five consecutive years: 2020-2024.
• Ranked as one of America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies by Inc. 5000 for seven consecutive years: 2018-2024.
• Voted #1 by more than 300 retailers worldwide in the RIS Software LeaderBoard 2024 report.
• Ranked #72 in America’s Most Innovative Companies list in 2023—by Fortune—alongside companies like Microsoft, Tesla, Apple, IBM, etc.
• Forged a strategic partnership with Google to equip retailers with cutting-edge generative AI tools.
• Recognized in multiple Gartner reports, including Market Guides and Hype Cycle, spanning assortments, merchandising, forecasting, algorithmic retailing, Unified Price, Promotion, and Markdown Optimization Applications. Economic Times News about our funding can be accessed here.

About StoreSmart StoreSmart™ is Impact Analytics' store execution and allocation-review platform. It sits on top of allocation and replenishment engine, giving store associates, managers, and executives a structured, time-bounded workflow to review, edit, and approve system-generated allocations before they're executed — closing the gap between Head Office planning and store-level reality. The mobile experience is store-associate-facing and must operate reliably in real-world store conditions — including restricted, slow, or intermittent network connectivity — which makes this one of the most technically demanding parts of the platform. Role Overview We're looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead mobile engineering for StoreSmart. This is a hands-on leadership role: you'll own the technical direction and delivery of a native Android application built for offline-capable, high-scale store operations, while managing and growing the team that builds it. You'll work closely with Product, Architecture, Backend, and Client Delivery teams under an active client go-live timeline. This role is foundational — you're building the mobile engineering practice for StoreSmart from an early stage, not maintaining an established one. Key Responsibilities

• Own the mobile engineering roadmap and architecture for StoreSmart's native Android application, in close partnership with Product and Architecture
• Lead technical decisions on offline-first design: local data persistence, sync strategy, conflict resolution, and graceful degradation on restricted or intermittent networks — this is the platform's primary technical risk area and a core expectation of this role
• Hire, lead, and mentor a mobile engineering team (initial build-out phase), setting technical bar, coding standards, and delivery cadence
• Drive architecture decisions for scalability and reliability at high-SKU, high-transaction-volume store environments
• Own delivery of mobile workstreams against a live client go-live timeline (data sign-offs, UAT, phased rollout)
• Establish mobile engineering practices: code quality, testing (including network-condition simulation/testing), CI/CD, observability, and release processes
• Collaborate with Backend and Architecture teams on API contracts, sync protocols, and cloud infrastructure (GCP)
• Run Agile delivery: sprint planning, backlog grooming, retrospectives, delivery tracking against client-facing milestones
• Communicate technical decisions, risks, and delivery status clearly to senior leadership and client-facing stakeholders

Mandatory Skills & Experience

• 10–15 years overall software engineering experience, including 3+ years directly leading native Android engineering teams (not cross-platform-only)
• Deep, hands-on native Android expertise (Kotlin/Java) — this is a native Android build, not React Native, Flutter, or responsive web. Candidates without direct native Android leadership experience will not be a fit for this role.
• Demonstrated experience architecting offline-capable mobile applications — local storage/sync, conflict resolution, degraded-connectivity handling — ideally in field, retail, logistics, or similarly network-constrained environments
• Experience building and shipping mobile applications at enterprise or multi-location retail scale
• Hands-on experience with GCP (required, not preferred) — this platform runs on Google Cloud
• Strong understanding of observability, APM, and performance tuning for mobile apps and their connected backend services
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional delivery under real client timelines, including managing risk and stakeholder expectations
• Strong verbal and written communication skills — able to present technical tradeoffs to both engineering and business/client audiences
• Strong ownership mindset with attention to reliability and field-conditions quality (this app is used on the store floor, not in an office)

Preferred / Added Advantage

• Prior experience building for retail store operations, field service, logistics, or other environments with real-world network constraints
• Experience integrating AI/agentic features into mobile workflows (e.g., anomaly alerts, contextual recommendations)
• Experience in early-stage or greenfield mobile team build-outs (vs. inheriting an established team)
• Exposure to microservices, event-driven architectures, and API design for mobile-backend int