Mobile Engineering Manager

About the company:

Founded by ex-Apple Product and Engineering leaders, Level is a well-funded startup that is redefining the smart home with technology that is simple, intuitive, useful, and invisible. We recently raised a $100M C round and we're looking to grow our team.

At Level, we take a unique approach to designing products - one that shifts focus from what we make to how we make it and who we make it for. It’s an approach that results in elegant and unique solutions, raising the bar for the entire smart home ecosystem. It’s also an approach that has led to our partnerships with Apple, Amazon (including Ring integration), Walmart, and other industry leaders – assuring that our products provide solutions that align with the technology choices and preferences of our customers.

About the role:

We are seeking a Mobile Engineering Manager to lead the development of our iOS and Android apps that allow our customers to interface with their Level smart home devices on a daily basis. You will work closely with world class designers, top-tier firmware engineers and server-side API developers to create a beautiful and integrated experience on both Android and iOS.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of passionate iOS engineers, along with external Android development resources.

• Participate in technical, design, and product discussions with teams across the organization to define and scope project requirements.

• Establish the technical direction (e.g. architecture decisions, etc.) for the team and lead the team to achieve it.

• Own and drive the development of new mobile features from ideation to production.

• Help set team goals and timelines while ensuring that they align with the goals of the larger organization/project.

• Communicate architecture and design trade-offs to non technical team members in business terms.

• Grow the team by hiring and developing engineers, promoting engineering decisions, and applying your technical and managerial expertise to constantly raise the bar.

• Mentor junior developers through pair programming and active code review.

Required qualifications:

• 7+ years of hands-on development experience on iOS or Android applications.

• 2+ years of experience as a technical lead/manager of a Mobile Engineering team.

• Strong sense of responsibility and ownership; you will have come from an environment in which people are responsible for their own code.

• A proven track record of growing engineering teams through great hires, fostering the creation of a harmonious culture, and finding the right intersection between expediency and best practice.

• You’re a great mentor, and enjoy helping other engineers grow and realize their full potential.

• A strong understanding of complex native mobile applications to help set the direction for iOS and Android as we scale.

• Comfortable making direct contributions to code on at least one mobile platform.

• Willingness to learn both Android and iOS platforms.

• Excellent communicator: comfortable explaining technical problems in person and in writing.

• Team player: enjoys teaching new concepts to, and collaborating with, the team.

• User-oriented: thoughtfulness when considering both our growing and our legacy users when implementing new features and updates, placing them as the priority.

More about Level Home:

When we look around our homes today, we see opportunity. We see “smart” products that lack utility and connected devices that push us further apart. We see consumers with high expectations, current standards set too low, and products that simply fail to deliver. Level Home Inc. is re-inventing the standard. We’re redefining “smart”, to center around thoughtfulness, practicality, and the people who make the problem worth solving.

We approach product design with a blank slate, zero assumptions, and an open-mind, because the way a problem is defined sets the stage for its solution. We couple deep expertise with unbridled curiosity, because to us “smart” means simple, intuitive, and useful.

We start with empathy, take new perspectives, and challenge existing standards. People are at the heart of what we do, and respecting their style, choices, and preferences is the first step to uncovering a thoughtful solution that truly improves their daily lives. After all, we’re not just designing products for a house, we are designing them for the people who make it a home.

Level Home Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability or genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.