Engineering Manager II, Mobile Platform

The Mobile Platform team acts as the backbone & advocates for our mobile engineers who are distributed across product teams. The objective of the organization is to increase the efficiency of our engineers by standardizing frameworks, writing core components, building libraries used across teams, shepherding patterns, improving build times, deployment systems, cross site performance, and so much more. This team doesn't directly own any customer products, instead is an enabler of other teams that do. Mobile Platforms consists of our most senior engineers whose work is cross cutting across all teams and is often called upon for advice, mentorship, or general support.

Your Mission

As an Engineering Manager II, you are an experienced team leader who is accomplished in steering the day to day of an engineering team including planning, architecture, execution, testing, and delivery. You proactively resolve issues faced by your team but also know who/where to escalate issues when necessary. You are a capable hands-on engineer and experienced team leader. Keys to success include a willingness to take on accountability / ownership, a collaborative approach to problem solving, a focus on team building, and a bias for action.

• Team Leadership
  • Capable manager who is self-reliant and inclined towards solving issues but still has solid judgment around when to escalate.
  • Responsible for people management duties across engineering team members, including: team staffing, career development of individuals, retention and performance management.
  • Responsible for fostering a team culture that values collaboration, accountability, innovation, and results.
  • Responsible for ensuring team members follow established processes while fostering a culture that embraces continuous improvement.
• Planning, Execution, And Delivery
  • Proactively anticipates issues and works with their team to navigate around or mitigate potential hurdles.
  • Collaborates with cross-functional partners to organize the team’s backlog and planned work.
  • Responsible for organizing, leading, and delivering the team’s engineering work.
  • Responsible for quality of deliverables and should champion BlockFi standards of work.
• Service Ownership
  • Responsible for planning care/maintenance of services owned by the team.
  • Accountable for system availability and monitoring system health; ensure alerts, metrics, and runbooks are in place; and debug issues in production.
  • Subject matter expertise around owned services. Detailed knowledge of the what/how business capabilities are provided.

Your Expertise

• Technical Breadth as well as Depth in Several Areas: 6+ years of industry experience working with, designing, and building mobile applications & distributed systems at scale.
• Team Leadership: 3+ years of leading a team of 6 or more engineers through daily work routines, performance management, and hiring/retaining talent.
• Technical Ownership: Experience owning software systems end-to-end, designing, estimating, implementing, testing, maintaining, debugging, and supporting high-quality software in production.
• Communication: Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills.
• Collaboration: Empathetic and does the legwork required for building consensus. Always seeks out feedback on technical designs, solutions, and code.