[Remote] Software Engineering Manager - Mobile

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. IMG Academy is hiring a Software Engineering Manager - Mobile to lead a team building and operating its mobile application and supporting systems. The role combines hands-on technical leadership, engineering delivery, and people management, while partnering with Product Management and other technical teams to deliver valuable, maintainable software.

Responsibilities

• 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
• 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
• 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)

Skills

• 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 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
• Experience using Expo built tool a plus

Benefits

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vision
• Flexible Spending Account and Health Savings Account options
• 401k with an Employer Match
• Short Term and Long Term Disability
• Group and Supplemental Life & AD&D
• Gym Discount Program
• Pet Insurance
• Wellbeing Program

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