Mobile Engineering Manager

Overview Join to apply for the Mobile Engineering Manager role at Onfleet . About Onfleet: Onfleet’s mission is to power the future of commerce by enabling businesses of all sizes to move goods more efficiently and delightfully. Our product includes intuitive smartphone apps for drivers, a modern web dashboard for logistics teams, and automatic notifications and real-time tracking for recipients. Onfleet powers millions of deliveries every week for thousands of businesses globally across industries such as grocery, prepared meals, pharmacy, flowers, and furniture. What You’ll Do You’ll lead and contribute to a high-performance engineering culture where transparency, feedback, and data-driven insights guide coaching, process improvements, and experimentation with tools to enable the team’s success and growth. You’ll lead a cross-functional product team focused on delivering resilient, performant, and maintainable systems that scale, particularly across iOS and Android ecosystems. You’ll foster an environment where engineers thrive, coaching for growth, driving clear execution, and maintaining velocity and quality. You delegate effectively, build clarity and trust, and guide people through opportunities and challenges. Lead a high-performing engineering team focused on shipping impactful features in a startup environment. Collaborate with product and design on roadmap execution and trade-offs. Provide technical guidance in discussions around architecture, system design, and mobile development. Mentor engineers, foster professional growth, and promote psychological safety. Drive agile practices, remove team pain points, reduce technical debt, and continuously improve delivery efficiency. Demonstrate a proactive, lean mindset, identifying bottlenecks and improvement areas in both process and technology, using coaching and agile leadership to enable continuous improvement. What You’ll Bring To The Team You bring a self-motivated, highly engaged, resourceful, driven, and passionate leadership style focused on delivering results by empowering others and removing blockers, rather than being the critical path yourself. 5+ years of hands-on mobile development experience (iOS, Android, or both), building and delivering production apps with solid knowledge of mobile architecture, clean code, testing, and refactoring. 3+ years of engineering management experience leading agile software teams. Proven ability to balance execution speed, quality, and team health. Excellent communication and decision-making skills, able to mediate and guide technical debates effectively. Deep experience with agile software development, ideally including Scrum leadership or equivalent experience. A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a closely related field. A proven track record of eliminating waste, whether in processes, meetings, or practices, while coaching low performers or making tough decisions to sustain a high-performing team. You create a motivated, high-trust team environment, balancing compassion with accountability to achieve outstanding results. Skilled in team development, including goal setting, effective delegation, coaching through challenges, and giving honest, respectful feedback. You act early when things aren’t working, supporting individuals and protecting the team. Strong critical thinking, problem-solving, and attention to detail. Nice To Haves Experience from multiple roles within an agile team. Technical leadership experience with coaching individuals and teams in writing testable code and refactoring. Demonstrates a deep understanding of mobile security best practices, including data encryption, user authentication, device firewalls and security software. Experience with mobile Continuous Integration, shift-left quality validation, and developer-owned quality practices, with a willingness to mentor and share that knowledge. How We Lead At Onfleet We value leaders who empower their teams, coach through challenges, and stay out of the critical path. Engineering managers are facilitators of clarity, not command-and-control operators. We expect our managers to lead with trust, emotional intelligence, and a strong sense of ownership for outcomes. Execution is essential, but it’s achieved through delegation, support, and shared accountability, not by being the most active contributor. Location & Workplace We are headquartered in San Francisco, but we are seeking candidates from Canada and Latin America for this remote-first position. Onfleet offers flexible work arrangements. You can work from home or anywhere with a reliable internet connection. The team works core hours within East Coast Time (EDT); ability to work within these hours is required. Please note that compensation and benefits may vary by location in accordance with local market standards and legal requirements. Compensation & Location Transparency Onfleet offers competitive compensation adjusted based on location and experience. For candidates located in Canada, the salary range is $120,000 to $160,000 USD annually. Compensation for candidates based in Latin America will be determined based on local market benchmarks and cost of living. We may use automated tools or AI-assisted systems to support resume screening and candidate evaluation. All final hiring decisions are made by real humans. By applying, you acknowledge that such tools may be used in the early stages of the hiring process. Equal Opportunity Onfleet is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity in the workplace and are committed to candidates who can bring diverse perspectives and experience. We do not make hiring decisions based on race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other basis protected by law. We highly encourage members of underrepresented groups to apply; qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered. #J-18808-Ljbffr