Senior Engineering Manager Mobile

at  GITHUB INC

About GitHub: As the global home for all developers, GitHub is the complete AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 100 million people, including developers from 90 of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to build amazing things together across 330+ million repositories. With all the collaborative features of GitHub, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code.
Locations: In this role you can work from Remote, Germany
Overview:
GitHub is changing the way the world builds software, and we want you to help build GitHub. We’re looking for an experienced software engineering manager to join a passionate, collaborative, distributed group of engineers on our team.
The GitHub Mobile team is changing the way that developers across the world collaborate on GitHub through native Android and iOS apps. Launched in March 2020, GitHub Mobile is one of our fastest growing products. The mobile team is part of the Client Apps organization, working alongside the GitHub Desktop and GitHub CLI teams.
This role will oversee one of our GitHub Mobile squads with Android, iOS, and server engineers located across Europe. You will partner closely with our other GitHub Mobile squad located in the United States.
Stack: Our apps are built natively with Kotlin for Android and Swift for iOS. Our apps communicate with GitHub via GraphQL and REST APIs.
Our team is distributed worldwide which means we work asynchronously most of the time.
You will work with design, data, engineering and product management to understand the problems we want to solve, then work with engineers to solve them via GitHub, Slack and Zoom
Responsibilities:
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Cultivate an environment where team members are empowered and demonstrate a strong sense of ownership and ensuring that individuals on the team are learning, growing, and advancing in their careers

• Meet with management and team members 1:1 on a regular basis
• Help the team ships products, features, and bug-fixes regularly and guide them toward building high quality software across multiple platforms
• Effectively communicate directions and decisions with the team and company
• Build alignment with engineering, design, and product leadership
• Guide the team toward building high quality software across multiple platforms

Qualifications:

Required:

• Extensive experience of designing, developing, and shipping high-quality software at scale
• Current direct and/or indirect people management or leadership skills and experience of developing a strategic roadmap for your team
• Experience working asynchronously on a remote, distributed team
• Experience communicating with high-level stakeholders and executing large initiatives in an iterative fashion

Preferred:

• Experience with Android and/or iOS
• Experience with Ruby on Rails
• Knowledge of testing, profiling, and debugging practices

GitHub Leadership Principles:

Please refer the Job description for details