Senior Manager, Mobile Engineering

Job title: Senior Manager, Mobile Engineering

About the Role Senior Manager, Mobile Engineering leads a high-performing team of iOS and Android engineers delivering native mobile experiences for Lingo’s biosensing platform. This hands-on leadership role combines coding, code reviews, and strategic direction to balance quality with speed to market. You’ll champion engineering culture, guidance, and migration strategies from React Native to fully native apps.

What You'll Do

• Manage, mentor, and grow a global team of iOS and Android engineers, conduct regular 1:1s, set expectations, and provide honest, constructive feedback that accelerates individual development.
• Own hiring for your team: define the roles you need, partner with recruiting, and make strong hiring decisions that raise the bar.
• Manage team capacity, workload balance, and resourcing across concurrent initiatives.
• Contribute meaningfully to the codebase by writing, reviewing, and debugging code across iOS and Android as a regular part of your work, not just in emergencies.
• Lead architecture and design reviews for major mobile features, ensuring decisions are well reasoned, documented, and understood by the team.
• Support and guide the team’s ongoing transition from React Native to fully native iOS and Android applications, including defining migration strategies and best practices.
• Set and enforce engineering standards across mobile development including code quality, testing practices, performance benchmarks, and release readiness.
• Collaborate with Data Science, Backend, and Platform Engineering teams to ensure mobile experiences are well-integrated with Lingo’s biosensor data and AI/ML capabilities.
• Represent mobile engineering in product and technical planning discussions, influencing roadmap decisions with a grounded understanding of technical trade-offs.
• Partner with the Quality Engineering team to define mobile testing standards and ensure releases meet Lingo’s quality bar in a regulated consumer health environment.
• Partner closely with Product and Design to translate user needs and business requirements into well-scoped, high-quality engineering solutions.
• Drive planning, estimation, and execution of mobile initiatives from discovery through production release.
• Identify and proactively surface delivery risks, technical debt, and dependencies that could affect team output or product quality.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree in software engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with strong hands-on expertise in native iOS (Swift) and/or Android (Kotlin) development.
• 3+ years of engineering management experience, including direct line management of software engineers (hiring, performance management, and career development).
• Experience leading native mobile development in a consumer-facing product, ideally one where performance, reliability, and user experience are critical differentiators.
• Solid understanding of mobile architecture patterns, performance optimization, and platform-specific best practices for iOS and Android.
• Experience with React Native and cross-platform to native migration strategies.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, able to work effectively with Product, Design, and cross-functional engineering teams.
• Ability to balance hands-on technical work with the people and process responsibilities of engineering management.

Nice to Have

• Experience in consumer health, digital health.

Compensation & Benefits

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution.
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.