Senior Mobile Engineering Manager

Welcome To The Traegerhood:

Our business is BBQ, and business tastes good. Traeger invented the wood pellet grill over 30 years ago, and we've been revolutionizing outdoor cooking ever since. We're a team of disruptors, innovators, problem solvers, and food fanatics who are dedicated to bringing people together to create a more flavorful world. From our headquarters in Salt Lake City and beyond, we work tirelessly to provide a world-class experience to our customers, retailers, and especially our employees. If you're a team player who's dedicated to delivering top-quality results every day, then we want you to come cook with us!

What You'll Do:

Traeger is seeking a Senior Mobile Engineering Manager with 4-5+ years of mobile leadership experience and a deep understanding of iOS and Android mobile architectures. This role is a player-coach who is expected to code and manage and thus must have current hands-on mobile development experience in SwiftUI or Kotlin. This role is crucial in the development and support of mobile applications within Traeger.  This position will develop, lead, and execute software development for mobile applications on both iOS and Android native platforms for the Traeger enterprise consumer-facing, digitally connected product ecosystem. This includes managing and developing technical development resources, collaborating with mobile program management on plans and priorities, technical design & architecture, being an active thought partner in user experience design, and ensuring our development resources are aligned with and support our business and product strategy.  

How You'll Help Us Win:

• Lead mobile development and architecture planning for the Android and iOS application platforms.
• Contribute to development of Traeger mobile applications in SwiftUI or Kotlin.
• Guide requirements for API/Services extensions to support evolving mobile architectures.
• Indirectly manage mobile QA activities and advocate for QA timelines and test automation initiatives.
• Advocate for and instill mobile test automation and continuous integration best practices across unit testing, integration testing, and UI test automation. Your goal is to save time and money by decreasing manual testing load, resolving errors during implementation, and minimizing regressions.
• Oversee build automation and dependency management of iOS and Android native mobile applications.
• Ensure mobile applications are instrumented for analytics and observability.
• Coordinate with and/or directly manage local, near-shore, or off-shore developers.
• Work with project managers and key business partners to ensure proper technical design and to ensure business objectives are met.
• Closely collaborate with mobile product management and design to ensure user needs are met and ideate on ways to deliver delightful, innovative user experiences.
• Mentor mobile developers on execution, solution proposals, and project planning.
• Coach mobile developers on personal development and career growth.
• Define standards and architecture/implementation review processes in and around mobile development.
• End-to-end ownership of project delivery for mobile platforms.

What You'll Need to Succeed:

This position requires strong technical, leadership, critical thinking, excellent organization / communication skills, and a can-do attitude. Can be relied on to take initiative, lead teams, and get the job done. Analyzes and leads technology solution implementations that solve real business need or opportunity and achieve company's strategic objectives. Some important competencies include:

Must have technical skills:

• Expert level OR direct hands-on exposure to SwiftUI for iOS
• Expert level OR direct hands-on exposure to Kotlin for Android
• API/Services requirements definition and collaboration in outputs
• Indirect or direct management of mobile QA resources
• UI Test Automation - knowledge of OR direct experience with this
• Integration Testing with APIs/Services - direct experience with and advocacy for this
• Unit Testing & Mocking - direct experience with and advocacy for this
• Build Automation & Continuous Integration - direct experience with this
• Vendor Management (near-shore and/or offshore - direct experience with this)

Nice to have, but not required, technical skills:

• Bluetooth or WiFi IoT connected hardware products
• Mobile Apps that work with Bluetooth or WiFi IoT connected hardware products
• i18N or l10N experience
• GraphQL or REST services
• Network performance management (client service communication, call & payload optimization, caching)
• Application security

Must have non-technical skills:

• Strong customer empathy
• Proactive interest in mobile user experience design & advocacy for experience improvement
• Collaborative problem solving
• Mentorship and coaching of mobile developers

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in computer science, computer engineering or a related software engineering field
• 10+ years of experience in mobile development
• 4-5+ years of directly managing mobile developers
• Expertise in mobile platform architecture and guiding decisions on mobile architecture, systems design, and full-stack technical strategy
• Able and willing to be a player-coach who both codes and manages other mobile developers

Why You Will Love To Work Here:

• Be part of the most disruptive force in outdoor cooking
• Join a true team working towards a common goal
• Culture of risk-taking, innovation & quality
• So. Much. Food.
• Have an outdoor lover's paradise in your backyard
• Full medical/dental/vision packages to fit your needs
• 401K to help you plan for the future
• Tuition reimbursement
• Individual professional development programs & initiatives to help you grow professionally
• Great discounts on all things Traeger
• Did we mention all the food?