Mobile Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Brightwell, a technology-driven payments company, as a Mobile Engineering Manager to lead the development of our flagship remittance product. This remote, U.S.-based role (with quarterly travel to Atlanta) requires approximately 50% hands-on coding (Swift, Kotlin) and 50% team and process management. You will guide a team of 4 engineers, offer technical expertise, and champion engineering improvements. The ideal candidate possesses 5+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years managing distributed teams, and a strong understanding of native mobile development. Brightwell offers a competitive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, disability insurance, 401k, flexible spending accounts, parental leave, and paid vacation.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, including hands-on coding experience and architectural design
• 2+ years of experience managing distributed software engineering teams
• Knowledge of native mobile (iOS and Android) development
• A broad skill base covering business, technology, user experience, and leadership. You transition seamlessly between managerial activities and low-level technical details, dropping into code to help the team meet its objectives while keeping your skill set sharp
• Proven ability to deliver complex projects spanning months of development
• Experience coaching and mentoring individuals at various levels of experience, from leaders to individual contributors

Responsibilities

• Offer technical guidance and experience to the team including architectural decisions, code reviews, and best practices
• Lead a team of 4 engineers developing native SDKs in Swift, SwiftUI, Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and little leftover XML based views
• Jump into the code. Approximately 50% of your time will be spent hands-on coding
• Provide expertise on the unique challenges of embedded native SDK development and production monitoring
• Bring an entrepreneurial attitude and a “roll up your sleeves” mentality to evaluating competing issues and assessing the product
• Dive deep into the product with the team to gain a thorough understanding of the product and the underlying technology
• Work closely with teams across Brightwell to deliver projects on time and within scope, identifying risks and implementing strategies to mitigate them along the way
• Identify and successfully implement improvements in our engineering processes, tools, and architecture to enable us to deliver on our key initiatives
• Be an effective spokesperson and champion for the engineering team
• Influence continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, coaching, and metrics
• Stay on top of current industry trends and best practices and help to implement them within the team ensuring an optimized, stable, scalable, software engineering environment
• Take on other challenges as needed

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, disability insurance
• 401k
• Flexible spending accounts
• Parental leave
• Paid vacation
• Remote work