Mobile Engineering Manager - AI Search & Discovery

Coupang; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 194,000 - 243,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

AD&D

FSA/HSA

Disability insurance

EAP program

401K with company match

PTO 18-21 days

Paid holidays

Parental leave

Pre-tax commuter benefits

MTV Electric Car Charging Station

Job summary

Coupang in Mountain View is seeking a Manager - Mobile Engineering to lead the Search API Product & Mobile team (6-8 engineers). You will drive the technical direction and grow the team, delivering high-impact mobile features within Coupang's app.

You will work closely with ML and backend teams, shape architecture for search and discovery, and own performance, memory, and latency targets to improve customer experience and revenue.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in mobile development and 2 years in people management.
• Expert proficiency in either iOS or Android.
• Strong mobile architecture knowledge (MVVM, TCA, Coordinators).
• Experience shipping features in high-traffic consumer apps.
• Demonstrated experience with A/B experimentation on mobile.
• Proven technical leadership: architecture decisions and design docs.
• Strong understanding of mobile performance: memory, concurrency, rendering, network.

Responsibilities

• Build, grow and mentor a team of mobile engineers incl. iOS and Android.
• Build inclusive team culture and refine processes.
• Drive cross-team collaborations with Backend and ML teams.
• Define and drive architecture for search and discovery features.
• Set technical direction for mobile ML integration (on-device/server).
• Lead architecture reviews and design docs with long-term impact.
• Own end-to-end technical quality: performance budgets, memory footprints, latency targets.

Skills

Mobile development

iOS

Android

Leadership

Architecture

Mentoring

Collaboration

Tools

Core ML

ONNX

Job description

Coupang in Mountain View is seeking a Manager - Mobile Engineering to lead the Search API Product & Mobile team (6-8 engineers). You will drive the technical direction and grow the team, delivering high-impact mobile features within Coupang's app.

You will work closely with ML and backend teams, shape architecture for search and discovery, and own performance, memory, and latency targets to improve customer experience and revenue.