Engineering Manager, SDKs

Summary

Join Ditto, a fast-growing startup, as an Engineering Manager to lead our SDK team. You will drive the development of high-quality, developer-friendly SDKs across multiple platforms and languages. This role involves managing and growing a talented engineering team, fostering collaboration, and ensuring our SDKs meet the highest technical standards. You will be responsible for recruiting, mentoring, and performance management of your team. A passion for developer experience, automation, and a strong product mindset is crucial. We offer competitive salaries, stock options, and comprehensive benefits.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience managing teams of software engineers. This includes people-management responsibilities such as hiring, performance management, and career development
• 5+ years of technical leadership, including driving best practices, project scoping and design, and providing architectural guidance
• A willingness to travel, including internationally, up to once a quarter for team get togethers
• Prior experience with mobile development or leading mobile development teams (iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter, Xamarin, etc.)
• Excellent leadership skills with a focus on team growth, mentorship, and collaboration
• A strategic, product-oriented mindset, with the ability to balance technical priorities with business needs
• Experience with large scale CI/CD pipelines, automation, and developer tooling & workflows to automate software releases
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal. As a fully distributed team, async communication is the norm and the development process often includes written architecture and design documents, and as an engineering manager video-based company updates and presentations will be the norm

Responsibilities

• Lead our SDK Engineering Team – Lead and magnify the impact of a team of 6-10 skilled individual contributors. Be responsible for ensuring their success, aiding their career growth, and facilitating their technical work
• Recruit and Grow Talent – Build a strong engineering team through hiring, mentoring, performance management, and career development initiatives
• Build a Great Developer Experience – Ensure our SDKs are a delight to use, well-documented, follow platform-specific best practices, and feel at home in every environment
• Raise the Bar on Technical Excellence – Ensure high test coverage, rigorous engineering, stellar documentation, and a consistently high technical bar across all SDKs
• Collaborate Across Teams – Collaborate with your team, engineering leadership, and product managers to define SDK roadmaps, prioritize features, and align engineering efforts with business goals
• Automate and Optimize – Improve developer workflows through automation, large scale CI/CD, and investments in tooling that maximize productivity and ensure scalability
• Ship It! — Regularly ship patch, minor, and major versions of our SDKs for all our supported platforms, and invest in automation and tooling to make this a breeze
• Be a Culture Custodian — Set team culture by example, expanding Ditto’s culture of trust, communication, and continual improvement

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing or managing an SDK library product or SDK library API design
• Experience with a wide range of programing languages (including but not limited to Swift, Objective-C, Kotlin, Java, Python, Dart, JavaScript, C#, C++, and Rust)
• Experience developing for iOS, Android, macOS, Linux, and Windows operating systems
• Experience building cross platform applications, including topics such as conditional compilation and managing different platform dependencies
• Experience managing documentation systems, or maintaining developer documentation
• Experience with large scale multi-language build systems such as Bazel, Buck, or similar
• Experience benchmarking, debugging and optimizing mobile applications
• Experience with more advanced software testing strategies such property-testing, launching darkly, chaos testing, or fuzz testing
• Experience with packaging and releasing a product or SDK across many platforms and operating systems, especially mobile
• Prior experience leading a team of software engineers with diverse technical expertise across many platforms
• Experience managing a remote, globally distributed team
• Familiarity with Rust, C, or C++ and experience in wrapping native functionality in other programming languages via FFI (Foreign Function Interfaces)

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• Stock options
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverage
• Flexible spending account (FSA)
• Flexible vacation policy
• 401(k) plan
• Office located in Atlanta, GA. Available for team member use