Mobile Application Engineering Manager

About First Due

Location

• Remote - US Only Country : United States Department : Engineering Position Type : Full-Time Salary : $200,000

Key Responsibilities:

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in native iOS application development using Swift, including 3+ years in a formal engineering management or technical lead role directly managing mobile engineers.
• Exposure to Android development (Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, or Android architecture components) is needed, especially for guiding a mixed iOS/Android team or evaluating cross-platform trade-offs.
• Proven experience leading teams that build mission-critical, offline-first mobile applications.
• Ability to partner with Product/PM to translate customer requirements into a roadmap, then drive the team to deliver against it.
• Experience using tools like Instabug /Firebase to triage production issues, guide root-cause investigation, and coach engineers through customer-impacting bugs.
• Strong understanding of mobile architecture patterns such as MVVM and Clean Architecture — enough to review designs, set technical direction, and unblock the team, even if not writing production code daily.
• Working knowledge of RESTful API integration, data synchronization, and secure authentication mechanisms, sufficient to guide architectural trade-offs and review technical designs.
• Working knowledge of WebViews and ability to use it efficiently
• Strong grounding in debugging, performance optimization, and memory management — enough to mentor engineers through hard problems and make sound trade-off calls.
• Demonstrated experience leading mobile development initiatives, establishing engineering best practices, hiring, and growing a team — required for this role.