Engineering Manager, Android

Summary

Join SeatGeek's growing engineering team as an Engineering Manager to lead the Android team and build industry-leading live events apps. You will manage a team of Android engineers, collaborate with product and engineering teams, provide performance feedback and career development support, and guide the team in improving engineering best practices. This role requires significant experience in Android development and engineering management, along with strong technical skills and strategic thinking. SeatGeek offers a competitive salary, flexible work environment, generous benefits including unlimited PTO and paid family leave, and a supportive work culture.

Requirements

• 6+ years as an engineer in a role that was mostly about writing mobile code (either Android or iOS)
• 3+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager of high caliber, motivated native mobile teams
• Irreproachable technical skills, and your team should look up to you as a mentor
• Knowledge of industry technology trends so you can help your team make good tooling and framework decisions
• Excellent strategic mind able to set technical direction
• An understanding of how to lead by setting context and facilitating collaboration between product, design, engineering and business leaders
• Experience owning an entire high-quality consumer-facing Android application, including release, vendor, and platform management

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of Android engineers
• Partner with your product counterpart and engineering peers in planning cycles and help keep our priorities in order
• Provide regular job performance feedback, hold one-on-ones, and provide career development support to your direct reports
• Guide the team to improve operational and engineering best practices to keep our development machine humming
• Set technical priorities, communicate business context to the team, build excitement about how innovative technology can enhance our core business
• Play an active role in our recruiting process, helping us to grow our engineering team in any way you can
• Perform code reviews and provide technical and design feedback to the team
• Communicate technical and product decisions to the right people, resolve blocking issues, and collaborate with other leaders across the organization

Benefits

• Equity stake
• Flexible work environment, allowing you to work as many days a week in the office as you’d like or 100% remotely
• A WFH stipend to support your home office setup
• Unlimited PTO
• Up to 16 weeks of paid family leave
• 401(k) matching program
• Health, vision, dental, and life insurance
• Up to $25k towards family building services
• $500 per year for wellness expenses
• Subscriptions to Headspace (meditation), Headspace Care (therapy), and One Medical
• $120 per month to spend on tickets to live events
• Annual subscription to Spotify, Apple Music, or Amazon music