The Role: FreedomPay is seeking a Mobile Engineering Manager to lead and grow a team of mobile engineers responsible for delivering high-quality Android applications and shared mobile platform capabilities. This role combines people leadership, delivery management, and technical oversight, with a primary focus on developing engineers, driving execution, and ensuring the long-term health of our mobile platform.
The ideal candidate is a strong engineering leader who enjoys mentoring teams, partnering cross-functionally, and creating an environment where engineers can deliver secure, scalable, and maintainable solutions in a fast-paced fintech environment.
ResponsibilitiesPeople Leadership & Team Development (80%)- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of mobile engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.
- Manage engineers across multiple levels, including Engineer I/II, Senior Engineers, Staff Engineers, and future team growth.
- Set clear goals and expectations aligned with departmental and organizational priorities.
- Provide regular coaching, mentorship, performance feedback, and structured career development planning.
- Conduct performance reviews, promotion assessments, and compensation recommendations.
- Partner with Talent Acquisition and engineering leadership to recruit, hire, onboard, and retain top mobile engineering talent.
- Effectively allocate engineering resources to balance delivery commitments, team capacity, and long-term sustainability.
- Identify staffing, skill, and capacity risks and develop mitigation plans.
- Support professional development through training, certifications, conferences, and ongoing learning opportunities.
- Facilitate team decision-making, conflict resolution, and cross-functional collaboration.
- Improve engineering processes, documentation standards, and team operating practices.
Delivery Planning & Execution (10%)- Partner with Product Management to understand business priorities, customer needs, and platform initiatives.
- Participate in technical discovery, solution planning, and effort estimation.
- Communicate priorities, timelines, and customer expectations to the team.
- Develop and maintain delivery plans based on team capacity and engineering estimates.
- Coordinate with Product Delivery and other engineering teams to ensure release readiness and successful execution.
- Drive accountability for delivery commitments and project outcomes.
- Identify execution risks, technical dependencies, and cross-team impacts and escalate as needed.
- Recommend scope, sequencing, or technical tradeoff decisions to support delivery objectives.
Technical Leadership & Code Quality (10%)- Oversee code review practices and ensure adherence to mobile engineering standards and best practices.
- Guide technical design discussions with a focus on scalability, maintainability, performance, and security.
- Define and promote engineering standards, architectural patterns, API guidelines, and coding conventions.
- Ensure mobile applications and platform components maintain clear module boundaries and long-term maintainability.
- Partner with senior engineers to prioritize and manage technical debt.
- Support secure software development practices and compliance requirements, including PCI DSS where applicable.
- Drive continuous improvement of CI/CD pipelines, test automation, build performance, and deployment processes.
- Participate in security reviews, audits, and remediation planning
Requirements- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience developing Android applications using Kotlin.
- 2+ years of people leadership experience managing and developing engineering teams.
- Demonstrated experience leading engineers across varying experience levels.
- Experience managing project delivery, engineering roadmaps, and team capacity planning.
- Strong understanding of software development lifecycle, Agile methodologies, and engineering best practices.
- Experience with source control systems such as Git, including branching and release strategies.
- Experience using Azure DevOps, Jira, or similar work management platforms.
- Excellent communication, coaching, stakeholder management, and organizational skills.
- Proven ability to balance people leadership, technical oversight, and delivery
Preferred Requirements- Experience working with multi-module mobile applications, SDKs, or shared platform architectures.
- Familiarity with Jetpack Compose and modern Android development frameworks.
- Experience owning, maintaining, or evolving shared mobile libraries or SDKs used across multiple applications or teams.
- Experience building applications within highly regulated or security-sensitive industries such as payments, fintech, healthcare, or financial services.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Gradle optimization, build system architecture, and large-scale engineering environments.
- Experience leading distributed or globally dispersed engineering teams.
- Experience driving engineering process improvements and organizational scaling initiatives.
- Exposure to iOS development concepts and broader mobile platform strategy.
- Experience supporting cloud-connected mobile applications and backend platform integrations.
As the fastest growing commerce company in the industry, we offer the opportunity for tremendous upward mobility within the company as well as development and professional growth opportunities. FreedomPay's fulltime roles provide exceptional benefits including medical, prescription, dental and vision coverage, Life Insurance, Retirement Plans with company match, commission sharing plan, flexible hybrid working environment, and great parental and other leave programs. All positions must be able to successfully pass a background check as well as a credit check.
