Engineering Manager - Mobile

About the Role

Human Interest is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead engineers focused on a mission-critical domain: building the future of our mobile app experience. You will combine technical leadership with people management, driving both technical execution and a high-performance engineering culture for our mobile platforms.

The team's scope is broad, spanning multi-persona mobile experiences, native & cross-platform architecture, and release operations:

• Multi-Persona Mobile Experience: Architecting client-side application flows for employees managing their retirement accounts, while expanding the platform to build future mobile experiences tailored for 401(k) company admins to manage plan administrative workflows on the go.
• Native & Cross-Platform Architecture: Guiding evaluation and execution across native iOS (Swift) and Android (Kotlin) as well as cross-platform frameworks (React Native, Flutter), ensuring robust SDK integration, optimal runtime performance, and scalable application architecture.
• Release Engineering & QA Infrastructure: Owning the complete mobile release lifecycle, including store deployments (App Store Connect, Google Play Console), CI/CD pipelines (Fastlane, Bitrise), device farm test automation, and mobile telemetry/analytics integrations (such as Braze and Firebase).

This is a rare greenfield opportunity: you'll build this mobile team from the ground up, hiring the engineers who join it, and you'll have a blank slate to define how mobile engineering works at Human Interest.

What You Get to Do Every Day

• Team Leadership and Development: Recruit and hire 3+ top mobile engineers. Develop and scale a high-performing team across iOS, Android, and cross-platform disciplines while eliminating platform silos.
• Technical Vision and Execution: Drive the execution of mobile roadmaps across employee and company admin product surfaces, ensuring a smooth, responsive, and stable app experience for our customers.
• Release Governance and Quality: Oversee release engineering practices, including pipeline management, build sign-offs, App Store/Play Store staged rollouts, feature flag rollouts, automated PR testing workflows, and cross-device QA verification.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with product management, UX design, operations, and backend teams for API contracts, backend-driven UI integrations, administrative security controls, and alignment on release schedules.
• Mobile Telemetry & Metrics: Establish and maintain mobile observability using tools like Braze, Sentry, or Datadog to track app adoption, deep-linking performance, push engagement, and crash analytics.

What You Bring to the Role

Experience

• 5+ years of experience leading software engineering teams, with a strong focus on mobile application delivery.
• Proven track record of shipping production iOS, Android, or cross-platform (React Native/Flutter/Kotlin Multiplatform) apps across multiple store release cycles.
• Experience managing complex, multi-persona mobile applications is a strong plus.
• Experience with mobile release operations, store submission guidelines, and feature flag management.
• Experience with fintech, security-sensitive applications, or regulated domains is a plus.

Technical Acumen

• Deep technical background in mobile software engineering (Swift, Kotlin, React Native, Flutter, or Kotlin Multiplatform).
• Understanding of mobile architecture trade-offs, device farms, automated UI testing (XCUITest, Espresso, Appium), client-side telemetry, and API contract design.

Leadership Skills

• Excellent communication (verbal and written), mentorship abilities, and experience fostering healthy, inclusive work environments.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills to bridge mobile client constraints with backend teams and business leadership.

Education

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is strongly preferred.

Why Join Human Interest?

Human Interest is tackling one of our country's biggest challenges—closing the retirement gap. You'll be instrumental in architecting and scaling solutions that bring financial security to employees at small and medium-sized businesses nationwide.