Director of Mobile Engineering

Credit Genie • New York, NY

2d • Onsite

About The Position

As the Mobile Engineering Director, you’ll lead our mobile strategy, execution, and evolution, ensuring we ship high-quality, secure, and performant customer experiences at a rapid pace. You’ll be accountable for mobile delivery, quality, and technical direction across one or more teams. You’ll partner closely with Product, Design, Data, Backend, and cross-functional leadership to align mobile investments with company priorities, scale our mobile platform responsibly, and develop a strong bench of mobile engineering talent. This is a rare opportunity to join a fast-growing fintech startup where your work will have a direct, meaningful impact on both the company and the financial well-being of our users.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience managing mobile engineering teams, including managing managers and/or leading multiple teams
• 8+ years of hands-on experience building and shipping native mobile applications (iOS and/or Android) in production
• Experience owning mobile strategy and execution for mission-critical applications at scale, with strong outcomes in reliability, performance, and release safety
• Proven track record of leading organizations to deliver complex, cross-functional, multi-team initiatives
• Strong people leadership skills with demonstrated success developing engineers and managers, building leadership bench strength, and scaling healthy teams
• Fosters a culture of ownership, accountability, and urgency while maintaining high standards for quality and craft
• Deep familiarity with incident management and on-call operations, including driving systemic improvements through retrospectives and operational metrics
• Comfortable working in fast-paced, iterative environments with a bias for action and strong stakeholder management
• Solid understanding of security, data privacy, and regulatory compliance, with the ability to translate requirements into pragmatic engineering practices

Responsibilities

• Own and drive the mobile org’s outcomes across delivery, quality, reliability, and technical direction, ensuring our iOS and Android apps consistently meet a high bar for customer experience and operational excellence.
• Lead, grow, and retain a high-performing mobile organization by mentoring engineers and managers, building career ladders and development plans, and creating a culture of accountability, ownership, and urgency.
• Set the mobile technical vision and roadmap in partnership with Product and Design leadership, balancing near-term product delivery with long-term platform investments (architecture, build systems, testing, observability, and developer experience).
• Oversee mobile architecture and platform decisions, ensuring mobile systems are scalable, secure, maintainable, and aligned with broader engineering standards and long-term product goals.
• Establish and continuously improve engineering operating mechanisms for mobile teams: planning, execution, resourcing, cross-team coordination, and stakeholder communication; to deliver complex, multi-quarter initiatives predictably.
• Drive operational excellence for mobile, including release safety, incident readiness, on-call health, reliability practices, performance monitoring, and post-incident learning to reduce repeat issues and improve customer trust.
• Build and scale the team through hiring and onboarding, maintaining a strong talent bar and inclusive culture while developing future technical and people leaders across the org.

Benefits

• 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents on your first day of employment.
• Receive up to $100 per month in fitness reimbursement or enjoy a complimentary full membership to LifeTime Fitness or Equinox.
• 401(k) with a 3.5% match and immediate vesting
• Meal program available for both lunch and dinner
• Pre-tax benefits, including a $1,000 HSA match
• Life and accidental insurance
• Flexible PTO

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees