Software Engineer Manager-Mobile Development
People-manager role leading the City of Philadelphia's mobile development team: establishing processes for building and deploying mobile apps, mentoring engineers, conducting code reviews, and supporting production systems. Requires broad technical understanding across React Native, server-side languages (.NET Core/Node/PHP), SQL databases, AWS, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Compensation
- $115K / yr
- Location
- Philadelphia, PA, us
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Proven track record managing complex projects
- Ability to solve complex business problems and develop user/business-driven technology strategies and plans
- Strong written and oral communication and interpersonal skills
- Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Exceptional customer service orientation
- Must be a City of Philadelphia resident within six months of hire
Nice to have
- At least five years of management experience (ideal candidate)
- Bachelor's degree as a good foundation, or equivalent job-related experience
- Understanding of the modern mobile platform and common architectures
- Strong understanding of hardware/feature differences across the mobile device landscape
- React Native
- Server-side programming languages such as .NET Core, Node.js, or PHP
- Command line and shell scripts
- Web application security concerns and mitigation approaches
- Git or similar version control systems
- SQL and relational databases such as PostgreSQL, Oracle, MSSQL
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Containerization
- Automated test/deployment pipelines
- API design and development
Full description
You will:
- Help build and support the mobile development team, including establishing internal processes for pushing new apps to mobile devices
- Assist in testing and ensuring high quality of deployed mobile apps
- Coordinate with other engineering managers focused on web applications to ensure continuity of service and functionality across platforms
- Mentor and grow engineers while keeping them engaged and focused on the Office of Innovation and Technology’s goals
- Enforce clean code and excellent coding practices by conducting thoughtful code reviews
- Develop and implement processes for building better mobile software and teams by encouraging best practices
- Assist in the implementation of systems where necessary by writing high quality code
- Help create a collaborative and inclusive environment where engineers are encouraged to ask questions and work in the open
- Continuously improve upon your team's process and best practices ensuring the effective delivery of high-quality software
- Develop and maintain strong partnerships with key partners
- Participate in, and have strong opinions about the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- Support and maintain production systems used for critical City workloads
Management
- Supports and expands a culture that is supportive of diversity, equity, and inclusion where employees from all backgrounds can succeed and thrive.
- Coaches employees under their supervision.
- Conducts performance reviews.
- Models best practices.
Operations
- Coordinates the development and implementation of major project timelines where appropriate.
- Follows effective relationship and project management processes in coordination with team members and engagement managers at the City
- Analyzes performance of activities within their area and documents resolutions, identifies and remediates problem areas, and devises and delivers solutions to enhance quality of area’s systems and services.
- Unblocks team members from technical issues.
- Sets and monitors SLAs for production systems that the team supports
- Collaborates with City teams providing infrastructure and networking support.
Relationship Building
- Develops and maintains strong partnerships with members of the content, ux and design teams
We care more about what you can do than where you learned how to do it. That said, a bachelor’s degree is a good foundation for the work, and job-related experience around the competencies above is acceptable as well. The ideal candidate will have at least five years of management experience.