Mobile Engineering Manager - Lead React Native Team

IMG Academy; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Medical, Dental and VIs

401k with Employer Match

Short and Long-Term Disability

Group and Supplemental Life & AD&D

Gym Discount Program

Pet Insurance

Wellbeing Program

Job summary

IMG Academy is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead a team of engineers building features for our React Native mobile app and supporting systems. You’ll combine strong technical judgment with a passion for developing people, driving engineering excellence and meaningful product outcomes for student-athletes.

You will collaborate with product to define scope, partner with backend services in Typescript, Go or Python, and ensure scalable, secure deployments on AWS via Kubernetes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years minimum experience in React Native mobile engineering.
• Experience maintaining and extending mobile back-end or other API applications in an engineering management or tech lead role.
• Experience deploying binaries to the Google Play and iOS app stores. Experience using Expo built tool a plus.
• Experience with cloud-based development environments (primarily AWS).
• Experience with 12-factor applications and modern development practices.
• Experience with automated infrastructure provisioning and continuous deployment.
• Familiarity with relational databases (e.g. Postgres) and non-relational data stores (e.g. Redis, OpenSearch).
• Familiarity with event-driven application architecture concepts.
• Familiarity with software monitoring, telemetry, and incident response handling
• Excellent communication skills; able to translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders and business context for engineers
• Experience with generative AI programming assistants
• Experience working with and applying engineering metrics to increase the effectiveness of an engineering team
• Experience working with product metrics to deliver business value
• Ability to provide on-call support on a rotating basis is required.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 4-6 software engineers across varying experience levels.
• Own the full employee lifecycle for your team: hiring, onboarding, performance management, career development, and retention.
• Conduct regular 1:1s and provide direct, actionable feedback that helps engineers grow.
• Work with other technical leaders to create a culture of innovation, quality, and continuous improvement.
• Work across engineering teams to set and uphold engineering standards for code quality, testing, security, and system design.
• Participate in and guide architectural decisions, ensuring solutions are scalable and maintainable.
• Stay technically engaged and meaningfully review design documents, unblock engineers, and assess trade-offs.
• Champion engineering best practices across the broader engineering organization.
• Drive reduction of technical debt and proactively manage platform health.
• Work with your engineers, in both hands-on and leadership capacity, to develop loosely coupled, well tested, and maintainable code.
• Use AI tools to accelerate development.
• Collaborate with Product Management to craft technical solutions that meet customer needs.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure Engineering and Security to release code securely and at scale.
• Identify blockers, manage dependencies, and elevate risks early.
• Balance short-term delivery with long-term platform investments.
• Provide on-call support on a rotating basis with the team.

Skills

React Native

Leadership

AWS

Typescript

Go

Python

CI/CD

PostgreSQL

OpenSearch

Redis

Kubernetes

AI tools

Tools

Expo

Git

CI/CD pipelines

AWS

Job description

IMG Academy is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead a team of engineers building features for our React Native mobile app and supporting systems. You’ll combine strong technical judgment with a passion for developing people, driving engineering excellence and meaningful product outcomes for student-athletes.

You will collaborate with product to define scope, partner with backend services in Typescript, Go or Python, and ensure scalable, secure deployments on AWS via Kubernetes.