Senior Engineering Manager, 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 a Senior Engineering Manager, you provide leadership to several teams responsible for the technical implementation of related business capabilities. Your leadership responsibilities include setting team level goals, developing your junior leaders and senior engineers, headcount planning, team culture / morale, and execution of multi-team project initiatives. As a thought leader within technology, you collaborate with cross functional partners across the organization to develop strategic roadmaps. You are able to shift from that strategic mindset to tactical problem-solving when issues arise.

• Organization Leadership
  • Responsible for shaping the culture of the engineering organization in partnership with other leaders.
  • Influential beyond the technology organization. You have a deep network of cross functional peers who value your opinion / perspective.
  • Aware of the state of talent within your teams and tracking those with high potential, promotion pipelines, and those in need of coaching.
• Team Leadership
  • Responsible for developing new team leaders that are transitioning from individual contributors to management / leadership.
  • Responsible for people management duties across engineering teams 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
  • 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: 8+ years of industry experience working with, designing, and building 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.
• Manager of Managers: 2+ years of experience managing people in leadership roles.
• 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.