Mobile Application Engineering Manager

Job description

**About First Due** First Due’s mission is to prevent first responder injury or death by providing fire and EMS agencies with transformative, end-to-end software solutions that empower them to run safer, smarter, and more effective operations. ### **Job Title: Mobile Application Engineering Manager** **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. - Experience with performance management, 1:1s, career development planning, and cross-functional stakeholder communication. - Experience with hybrid/cross-platform mobile frameworks — such as **Flutter, React Native, or Ionic/Capacitor** — is needed and useful for evaluating build-vs-buy and native-vs-hybrid strategy decisions. --- ### **Qualifications:** - 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. - Experience with performance management, 1:1s, career development planning, and cross-functional stakeholder communication. - Experience with hybrid/cross-platform mobile frameworks — such as **Flutter, React Native, or Ionic/Capacitor** — is needed and useful for evaluating build-vs-buy and native-vs-hybrid strategy decisions. --- ### **Required Technical Skillset:** - **iOS:** Swift 5.x, SwiftUI and UIKit, CoreData, CoreLocation, Background Tasks - **Tools & Platforms:** Xcode, Git, Figma, TestFlight - **CI/CD:** Fastlane, GitHub Actions or similar automation tools - **APIs:** RESTful services, JSON parsing, Authentication & Authorization - **Testing:** XCTest, automated UI testing frameworks - **Android:**