Engineering Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of brilliant software engineers across mobile platforms.
• Hire and retain the best talent for the team.
• Evaluate performance regularly, share and seek feedback.
• Create clear career paths for each individual and help them grow.
• Make sure that the team is happy and tasks get done.
• Understand business goals, contribute to product strategy and work with product teams to implement and execute the product roadmap.
• Understand and execute the mobile tech charter with emphasis on improved performance, app size reduction and crash-free rate as key metrics.
• Able to break down yearly targets into quarterly OKRs and prioritise them.
• Work closely with engineering leaders, product managers, designers and business analysts to plan and develop scalable and high-quality technology solutions at a rapid pace using agile methodologies.
• Provide functional, design, and code reviews in related areas of expertise within the team and cross-team.
• Engineering prioritisation of work, bandwidth allocation, sprint planning, leave planning and figuring out bottlenecks in advance.
• Define processes for the Mobile Engineering team, including but not limited to release management, Unit testing, continuous integration and deployment, etc.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership to identify and define the right components, systems, and capabilities for current/future product requirements.
• Is able to take sessions and write blogs to make sure that we share what we learn.
• Set up best practices for mobile development and champion their adoption at the same time.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's and/or Master's degree in Computer Science from a reputed institute, or equivalent industry experience.
• 8 to 12 years of relevant industry experience delivering products in at least one of Android Applications, iOS Applications, or React Native.
• 1 to 3 years of management experience, with technical leadership skills for problem-solving and conflict resolution.
• Possesses knowledge of Mobile design patterns(MVP, MVVM, etc. ), CI/CD pipelines, application security, upcoming technologies in the latest Android/iOS versions, and other mobile engineering paradigms.
• Ability to establish credibility with smart engineers quickly and provide longer-term vision and motivation.
• Experience with recruiting, coaching, mentoring, and retaining the best technical talent in the industry.
• Extensive knowledge of mobile engineering best practices and principles as well as an understanding of scientific methods of problem-solving.
• Strong presentation, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Experience developing in a variety of application frameworks, including production experience in at least one of Java, Kotlin, Objective-C, Swift, React Native, or Flutter.
• Strong technical knowledge with a track record of individual technical accomplishments.