As our Engineering Manager- Mobile, you are a key player on the Native team, managing and mentoring senior and lead engineers, and owning overall team growth and development. You help ensure the quality of team deliverables, success, and profitability, as well as manage team resourcing and utilization. In addition to your management responsibilities, this position includes overseeing technical analysis, native mobile application development, UI/UX design, and development, while working collaboratively with highly skilled and passionate team members across the globe. You are excited about learning and experimenting with cutting-edge technologies and creating innovative technical solutions with a high standard of execution and performance.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the overall development life cycle of the solution and managing complex projects with significant bottom-line impact.
- Support product managers in developing a strategy and road map to provide compelling capabilities and features for different products and platforms.
- Work closely with senior engineers to develop the best technical design and approach for new product development.
- Instil best practices for software development and documentation, assure designs meet requirements, and deliver high-quality work on tight schedules.
- Project management - prioritization, planning of projects and features, stakeholder management and tracking of external commitments, transparent communication and identification of scope changes and risk identification, analysis, and resolution.
- Translate business requirements into technical solutions, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines with optimal solutions.
- Career management and development of direct reports.
- Responsible for developing people and managing talent effectively.
- Managing the overall performance of the team members and ensuring to build and sustain high-performance work culture.
- Hiring the right talent to meet the business needs.
- Conduct regular 1:1s with your direct reports to guide their ongoing professional development.
- Ensure your team members’ adherence to Junglee’s development standards and best practices.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional software development experience, preferably for mobile. A degree in Computer Science or related field and/or a proven record of releasing apps to the store
- At least 7+ years of Android / IOS / Flutter application development experience using XCode, SWIFT frameworks, and/or Java/Rx JAVA/Dagger Development in the Android ecosystem. Exposure to Kotlin Development Design Patterns & Cloud Platform enablement (some experience with C++ preferred)
- Strong foundations in object-oriented design and demonstrated experience using architectural patterns such as MVP, MVI, or MVVM
- A demonstrated mastery of Functional Reactive Programming using RxJava or Kotlin Flow
- Comprehensive mastery of Android Clean Architecture, SOLID Principles, and Dependency Injection
- Knowledge of CS foundations like data structures, algorithm design, problem-solving, multi-threading, and complexity analysis
- Experience working with a wide variety of third-party platforms, frameworks, and libraries
- Deep understanding and proven practical experience integrating with service-based Web APIs such as REST and/or GraphQL
- Experience writing behaviour-driven Unit Tests and a keen sense of how to practically maximize code coverage while writing thoughtful tests that reduce regressions and minimize defects
- Strong understanding of Agile principles and methodologies, including workflows, and ceremonies, especially Scrum, and Kanban
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and effective stakeholder management, in cross-functional teams.
- Managed a team of 5+ engineers, taking care of the delivery planning, resource alignments, prioritization, performance management(including managing appraisal cycles), and effective feedback for the team and individuals.
About Junglee Games
Junglee Games is a leader in the skill-gaming space, with close to 75 million users. Founded in San Francisco in 2012, and part of the $30 Bn Flutter Entertainment Group, Junglee Games is the fastest-growing skill-gaming company in the world. Some of our notable games are Junglee Rummy, Howzat, Eatme.io and Solitaire Gold.
Our mission is to build entertainment for millions of people around the world and connect people through high-quality games.
Since we were founded, we've drawn 500 of the world’s most talented people into our ranks. Our team has worked on international AAA titles like Transformers, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Real Steel, Rio, Mech Conquest, and Dueling Blades. Our designers have worked on some of Hollywood’s biggest hits including the movie Avatar.
Junglee is not just a gaming business - it is a blend of data science, innovation, cutting-edge technology and, most importantly, a values-driven culture that is creating the next set of conscious leaders. Junglee Games is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.