Contractor Mobile Engineering Manager

Company Name: tastytrade

As the Mobile Engineering Manager at tastytrade, you'll be part of the team that builds out the retail brokerage business and supports our other business initiatives. We care about the speed and stability of our back-end systems as much as we care about the experience our customer-facing applications create. Our architecture is consistently evolving as our business grows and we face different technical challenges, but always with a focus on practicality and performance.

You'll help to create an environment for our engineers to succeed by providing mentorship, meeting with stakeholders, contributing to our culture, and ensuring team efficiency and growth. We have a native Android app for the phone form factor, and native iOS applications for both iPhone and iPad. Our codebase includes a transpiled Java library which handles interactions with the tastytrade API and provides common functionality across our customer-facing trading platforms.

What You'll Do:

• Ensure that our mobile team(s) deliver improvements which provide customer to the tastytrade client trading applications rapidly while maintaining application stability and quality. Work with the tastytrade Product Management team to organize, identify, and assign work based on priority and importance.
• Help balance engineering time between new features and foundational improvements like application architecture and CI / CD.
• Provide thought leadership and guidance for more junior members of the team by both managing a mobile-focused engineering team and providing general technical mentorship.
• Provide concise, constructive, and thoughtful peer reviews for both more junior engineers as well as for other senior engineers.
• Interact directly with the tastytrade business and product teams to capture and translate requirements and technical direction into production-quality code.
• Draft, maintain, and deliver on quarterly OKR's and goals for your team.
• Take responsibility for the performance of your team and the development of its individual members.
• Hold regular 1:1s with your team members.
• Give regular and clear feedback around individual performance.
• Ensure individual goals are aligned with broader technology strategy, business strategy, and individual career development.
• Ensure your team members are engaged and actively contributing to the tastytrade engineering culture.
• Provide technical leadership for your team, taking point on major or technically complex efforts, running research spikes, and participating in development tasks including ticketed work, bug fixes, incident response, and ensuring that major deliveries reach customer hands.
• Contribute to code reviews and regular team meetings.
• Collaborative input on engineering best practices and standards.
• Increase engineer quality of life and enablement through process improvement and tooling.
• Partner with talent acquisition to improve hiring flow, to improve and create new hiring funnels, as well as to fill vacancies on your team and others.
• Engage with other managers and technical leaders to ensure healthy communication, engineering concerns, and to create an environment where top level engineering talent wants to work.

Who You Are: 

• Experience managing hybrid (remote and in-person) teams of 5-15 people.
• A firm understanding of the modern software engineering practices, languages, frameworks, and common technologies.
• For this role you'll need a strong understanding of Java / Kotlin, the Android platform, Swift / Objective C, and the iOS platform.
• The ability to effectively communicate complex technical concepts to engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders in simple language.
• 4+ years of professional experience working as a software engineer manager and 10+ years of experience as a software engineer.
• The ability to jump in and assist with technical challenges.
• A proven track record of team leadership including the ability to rapidly deliver both changes to existing production systems and greenfield efforts.
• Deep understanding of computer science fundamentals.