Costco

Manager - Mobile Development and Engineering

Costco • $137K — $200K *
Issaquah, WA 98027In-Person
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in developing native mobile applications on iOS and/or Android.
  • 5+ years of engineering management experience with a focus on team leadership and performance management.
  • Proven track record of delivering mobile applications end-to-end in complex environments.
  • Strong understanding of modern mobile architectures and design patterns.
  • Experience with RESTful APIs, mobile analytics, and CI/CD tools.
  • Proficiency in mobile UI/UX principles and platform-specific guidelines.
  • Deep understanding of mobile security best practices and performance optimization.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop a high-performing team of mobile engineers.
  • Oversee the entire lifecycle of mobile application development, from design to release.
  • Develop and execute the strategic vision for mobile platforms aligned with company goals.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful mobile experiences.
  • Monitor team performance and ensure delivery timelines are met while maintaining quality standards.
  • Drive innovation in mobile technologies and user-focused design.
  • Manage staffing, onboarding, and professional development for team growth.

Benefits

  • Paid time off including vacation and sick leave.
  • Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • 401(k) retirement plan with company match.
  • Short-term and long-term disability insurance.
  • Employee assistance programs and health-care reimbursement accounts.
Full Job Description
ROLE
  • INTEGRITY: When achieving benchmarks and goals, use methods/strategies that are consistent with the Code of Ethics and the Standard of Ethics for Managers and Supervisors. Always leads by example. Appropriately handles employee concerns and follows through to resolution.
  • MEMBER SERVICE: Provides and ensures staff provides an exceptional member experience.
  • ADMINISTRATION: Ensures proper department coverage (writing schedule and break aids if needed). Understands department budget, able to research and explain budget variances.
  • MANAGING PERFORMANCE: Coaches and mentors' employees to provide support and guidance. Has regular open and honest conversations with employees to discuss work performance and career development. Identifies learning opportunities to strengthen employee knowledge, skill, and ability.
  • COMMUNICATION: Regularly shares information with employees via meetings and one-on-one conversations. Successfully navigates difficult conversations with employees, members, and suppliers. Listens, expresses empathy, and adapts to get points across. Addresses issues immediately to ensure a timely resolution and to avoid escalating the situation. Consistently demonstrates business knowledge during interactions with senior management.
  • SELF-MANAGEMENT: Demonstrates sound judgment, taking a partner when necessary. Ability to maintain self-control in the face of hostility or provocation or in intense, hectic situations.
  • INCLUSION: Encourages different approaches and ideas to work and to accomplish goals. Seeks employee input. Takes the time to get to know or reach out to candidates who show potential that may not come forward on their own.
  • COMPLIANCE AND SAFETY: Takes measures to ensure employee and member information is kept confidential and adheres to IS security policy.
  • Lead Mobile Engineering Team: Manages, mentors, and develops a high-performing team of native iOS and Android Engineers. Takes ownership for team development and growth, including setting goals and objectives, identifying skill gaps, facilitating training, career planning, providing regular feedback, handling appraisals, managing rewards and recognitions to the team.
  • End-to-End Delivery: Oversees the complete lifecycle of mobile application development-from requirements and design through development, testing, release, and maintenance.
  • Strategic Leadership: Develops and executes the strategic vision for mobile platforms, ensuring alignment with company and IT Division objectives. Helps Engineering teams establish and achieve objectives and key results in desktop, mobile, and other form factors.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partners with Product Management, UX/UI, QA, Architecture, and business stakeholders to deliver engaging mobile experiences that create measurable impact for members.
  • Technical Direction: Provides guidance on engineering best practices, architecture standards, coding quality, performance, and security.
  • Performance & Delivery Management: Monitors team output, maintains delivery timelines, and ensures high-quality implementation of features and fixes.
  • Culture & Communication: Acts as the key conduit between employees and upper leadership, models company values, and fosters a culture of engagement, trust, and transparency.
  • Operational Excellence: Implements and refines processes for CI/CD, code reviews, automated testing, and quality assurance to improve efficiency and product reliability.
  • Innovation & User Focus: Drives innovation in mobile technologies and user experience, ensuring the applications remain intuitive, modern, and member-focused.
  • Resource Planning: Oversees staffing, hiring, onboarding, and professional development to support growth and long-term team success.
  • Owns the stability, performance, quality assurance, and automation goals of all the products and platform services that are required for the success of Costco mobile app.
  • Collaborates proactively with multiple distributed value streams, vendors, service providers; and ensures product artifacts (stories, epics, features, acceptance criteria, etc.) that are pertinent for the mission and strategic objectives are completed as planned.
  • Partners closely with Business, Dev, SRE teams to identify the environment requirements for the performance goals of the projects and maintain an efficient CI/CD pipeline.
  • Takes responsibility for foundational libraries, frameworks, and dev tools that support the mobile app and the BFF layers. Works with Digital development teams for safe use of libraries, frameworks, and dev tools.
  • Oversees the security and compliance of the mobile app.
  • Establishes consistency of performance measurement, observation, and tooling approaches across Engineering teams and products.
  • Contributes code to streamline performance and remove bottlenecks.
  • Evaluates the performance rigor of Engineering teams and works with SRE to reduce complexity.
  • Writes specifications and understands performance trade-offs and risks.
  • Influences others and represents technical insight about customer experience to Engineers.
  • Helps debug performance issues and produce high-quality code to fix them.
  • Provides code reviews for performance-related patches.
  • Spends a significant amount of time mentoring others and providing cross-team input.
  • Drives the team to ensure on-time delivery, quality improvement KPIs.
  • Communicates effectively to different stakeholders on the project progress at different time lines (weekly/bi-weekly/monthly etc.).
  • Collaborates with customers, other managers, team leads to resolve any team blockers, and brings up best practices, solutions.
  • Oversees the hiring, managing attrition, and talent retention for the team.
  • Takes ownership for building innovation culture in the team and drives the team to bring up new solutions to improve the quality and efficiency.
  • Supports Digital pods in preparing short term and long-term project goals as aligned to organizational directions; drives the team to realize the goals.
  • This is a full-time management/leadership position (45+ hours per week).

REQUIRED
  • 10+ years of professional experience developing native mobile applications on iOS (Swift/Objective-C) and/or Android (Kotlin/Java).
  • 5+ years of experience in engineering management, including leading teams, coaching, performance management, and resource planning.
  • Demonstrated success delivering mobile applications end-to-end in enterprise or complex environments.
  • Strong understanding of modern mobile architectures and design patterns (e.g., MVVM, VIPER, Clean Architecture).
  • Proficiency with mobile UI/UX principles, accessibility standards, and platform-specific guidelines.
  • Experience with RESTful APIs, GraphQL, Firebase, mobile analytics, and push notification services.
  • Hands-on knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Bitrise, Jenkins), automated testing frameworks, and app deployment processes (App Store Connect, Google Play Console).
  • Solid grasp of mobile security best practices, performance optimization, and monitoring tools (Crashlytics, Firebase Performance, etc.).
  • Strong collaboration, communication, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence and build trust across teams.
  • Strategic thinking and the ability to translate business goals into actionable engineering roadmaps.
  • Passion for building member-first, high-quality mobile experiences that drive meaningful business value.
  • Deep understanding and proficiency in building mobile apps from scratch using Swift/Objective-C; some experience with/working knowledge of Java/Kotlin and Python is preferred.
  • Desire and ability to expand expertise into additional mobile languages.
  • Expertise in designing testable software (Unit/Functional/End-to-End) and building large scale, complex applications.
  • Self-motivated/learning mindset with strong communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
  • Passionate about writing clean, well-organized, and production-ready code.
  • Desire to build a larger in-house team and manage a group of Developers over time.
  • User-centric focused and embrace Agile practice.
  • HIPAA Training and Supervisors Orientation (within 30 days of hire); Leadership Development 101 (within one year); Costco Pay Policies (within 90 days of promotion).
Recommended
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
  • A portfolio of Apps or SDKs already built and in the App Store or Google Play.
  • Strong software engineering management experience preferred.
  • Proficient in Google Workspace applications, including Sheets, Docs, Slides, and Gmail.

Required Documents
• Cover Letter
• Resume

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Pay Range: - $137,000 - $200,000, Bonus and Restricted Stock Unit (RSU) eligible

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, health benefits - medical/dental/vision/hearing aid/pharmacy/behavioral health/employee assistance, health care reimbursement account, dependent care assistance plan, short-term disability and long-term disability insurance, AD&D insurance, life insurance, 401(k), stock purchase plan to eligible employees.

About Costco

Costco is a membership warehouse club, dedicated to bringing their members the best possible prices on quality brand-name merchandise. With hundreds of locations worldwide, Costco provides a wide selection of merchandise, plus the convenience of specialty departments and exclusive member services, all designed to make your shopping experience a pleasurable one. The company's first location, opened in 1976 under the Price Club name, was in a converted airplane hangar on Morena Boulevard in San Diego. Originally serving only small businesses, the company found it could achieve far greater buying clout by also serving a selected audience of non-business members. With that change, the growth of the warehouse club industry was off and running. In 1983, the first Costco warehouse location was opened in Seattle. Costco became the first company ever to grow from zero to $3 billion in sales in less than six years. When Costco and Price Club merged in 1993, the combined company, operating under the name PriceCostco, had 206 locations generating $16 billion in annual sales.

Costco Careers

Joining the Costco team presents a unique opportunity to be part of one of the largest wholesale membership warehouses in the world. At Costco, we are committed to providing our employees with a path to career growth and a dynamic workplace culture that values innovation, leadership, and diversity.

Work You'll Do

Embark on a professional journey with Costco and play a pivotal role in our mission to continually enhance the Costco shopping experience. You'll find yourself working in a high-energy environment where your skills will be honed and your abilities pushed to new heights.

Explore Job Opportunities

Costco offers a variety of job opportunities that cater to a range of skills and interests, from in-warehouse positions to corporate roles. Each position at Costco is designed to help you build a solid professional foundation, with ample room for growth and advancement.

Internship Programs

Kickstart your career with a Costco internship. Our internships provide invaluable workplace experience and a chance to see what it truly means to be part of a team that prioritizes quality and community. Interns at Costco gain hands-on experience that is not only rewarding but also integral to their professional development.

Professional Growth and Development

Costco is deeply invested in the professional growth of our employees. We offer robust training programs, leadership workshops, and opportunities for advancement. Our commitment to career growth ensures that our team members are always equipped to take on new challenges.

Benefits and Culture

The benefits at Costco go beyond the basics. We offer a competitive benefits package that includes health, vision, dental, and life insurance, as well as a 401(k) plan with a generous company match. More importantly, our company culture is built on a foundation of respect, integrity, and dedication to diversity and innovation.

Join Our Team

If you're looking for a career that offers job security, excellent benefits, and an opportunity to grow both personally and professionally, consider joining the Costco team. Explore our open positions, tailor your resume, and prepare for an interview where you can showcase your unique skills and passion for excellence.

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Ready to take the next step in your career? Search for open positions that match your skills and interests on our jobs page. At Costco, we are always looking for passionate, curious, and solution-driven team players who are ready to make a difference.

Costco Jobs – Where Careers Soar

At Costco, we don’t just offer jobs; we offer career paths. The vast opportunities for growth, coupled with our exceptional culture and benefits, make Costco not just a place to work, but a place to build a lasting career.
Learn more about Costco
Size
288,000 employees
Market Cap
$201.7 billion
Industry
Retail & Consumer Goods
Net Income
$4.3 billion
Founded
1983
5 Year Trend
+12%
Revenue
$178.6 billion
NASDAQ
COST
* Ladders Estimates

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