[Hiring] Mobile Application Engineering Manager @First Due

Role Description

Mobile Application Engineering Manager

Location: Remote - US Only

Country: United States

Department: Engineering

Position Type: Full-Time

Salary: $200,000

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in native iOS application development using Swift, including 3+ years in a formal engineering management or technical lead role directly managing mobile engineers.
• Exposure to Android development (Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, or Android architecture components) is needed, especially for guiding a mixed iOS/Android team or evaluating cross-platform trade-offs.
• Proven experience leading teams that build mission-critical, offline-first mobile applications.
• Ability to partner with Product/PM to translate customer requirements into a roadmap, then drive the team to deliver against it.
• Experience using tools like Instabug/Firebase to triage production issues, guide root-cause investigation, and coach engineers through customer-impacting bugs.
• Strong understanding of mobile architecture patterns such as MVVM and Clean Architecture — enough to review designs, set technical direction, and unblock the team, even if not writing production code daily.
• Working knowledge of RESTful API integration, data synchronization, and secure authentication mechanisms, sufficient to guide architectural trade-offs and review technical designs.
• Working knowledge of WebViews and ability to use it efficiently.
• Strong grounding in debugging, performance optimization, and memory management — enough to mentor engineers through hard problems and make sound trade-off calls.
• Demonstrated experience leading mobile development initiatives, establishing engineering best practices, hiring, and growing a team — required for this role.
• Experience with performance management, 1:1s, career development planning, and cross-functional stakeholder communication.
• Experience with hybrid/cross-platform mobile frameworks — such as Flutter, React Native, or Ionic/Capacitor — is needed and useful for evaluating build-vs-buy and native-vs-hybrid strategy decisions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in native iOS application development using Swift, including 3+ years in a formal engineering management or technical lead role directly managing mobile engineers.
• Exposure to Android development (Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, or Android architecture components) is needed, especially for guiding a mixed iOS/Android team or evaluating cross-platform trade-offs.
• Proven experience leading teams that build mission-critical, offline-first mobile applications.
• Ability to partner with Product/PM to translate customer requirements into a roadmap, then drive the team to deliver against it.
• Experience using tools like Instabug/Firebase to triage production issues, guide root-cause investigation, and coach engineers through customer-impacting bugs.
• Strong understanding of mobile architecture patterns such as MVVM and Clean Architecture — enough to review designs, set technical direction, and unblock the team, even if not writing production code daily.
• Working knowledge of RESTful API integration, data synchronization, and secure authentication mechanisms, sufficient to guide architectural trade-offs and review technical designs.
• Working knowledge of WebViews and ability to use it efficiently.
• Strong grounding in debugging, performance optimization, and memory management — enough to mentor engineers through hard problems and make sound trade-off calls.
• Demonstrated experience leading mobile development initiatives, establishing engineering best practices, hiring, and growing a team — required for this role.
• Experience with performance management, 1:1s, career development planning, and cross-functional stakeholder communication.
• Experience with hybrid/cross-platform mobile frameworks — such as Flutter, React Native, or Ionic/Capacitor — is needed and useful for evaluating build-vs-buy and native-vs-hybrid strategy decisions.

Requirements

• iOS: Swift 5.x, SwiftUI and UIKit, CoreData, CoreLocation, Background Tasks
• Tools & Platforms: Xcode, Git, Figma, TestFlight
• CI/CD: Fastlane, GitHub Actions or similar automation tools
• APIs: RESTful services, JSON parsing, Authentication & Authorization
• Testing: XCTest, automated UI testing frameworks
• Android: Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Android architecture components
• Hybrid/cross-platform: Flutter, React Native, .NET MAUI, or Ionic/Capacitor

Benefits

• Comprehensive compensation and benefits package for eligible employees.
• Competitive pay.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• FSA/HSA.
• 401(k).
• Flexible PTO.
• Fully remote workplace.
• Technology stipend.
• Opportunities for advancement.
• Other benefits and perks that set our team apart.