Mobile Engineering Manager

The Freedom Pay Commerce Platform is the technology of choice for many of the largest companies across the globe in retail, hospitality, lodging, gaming, sports and entertainment, food service, education, healthcare and financial services. Freedom Pay’s technology has been purposely built to deliver rock solid performance in the highly complex environment of global commerce. The company maintains a world-class security environment and was first to earn the coveted validation by the PCI Security Standards Council against Point-to-Point Encryption with EMV standard in North America.

Freedom Pay’s robust solutions across payments, security, identity and data analytics are available in-store, online and on-mobile and are supported by rapid API adoption. The award winning Freedom Pay Commerce Platform operates on a single, unified technology stack across multiple continents allowing enterprises to deliver a consistent, repeatable experience on a global scale. Freedom Pay is a fast paced, high growth company with a great culture with competitive benefits and compensation with a business casual atmosphere.

Freedom Pay is seeking a Mobile Engineering Manager to lead and grow a team of mobile engineers responsible for delivering high-quality Android applications and shared mobile platform capabilities. This role combines people leadership, delivery management, and technical oversight, with a primary focus on developing engineers, driving execution, and ensuring the long-term health of our mobile platform.

The ideal candidate is a strong engineering leader who enjoys mentoring teams, partnering cross-functionally, and creating an environment where engineers can deliver secure, scalable, and maintainable solutions in a fast-paced fintech environment.

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of mobile engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Manage engineers across multiple levels, including Engineer I/II, Senior Engineers, Staff Engineers, and future team growth.
• Set clear goals and expectations aligned with departmental and organizational priorities.
• Provide regular coaching, mentorship, performance feedback, and structured career development planning.
• Conduct performance reviews, promotion assessments, and compensation recommendations.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition and engineering leadership to recruit, hire, onboard, and retain top mobile engineering talent.
• Effectively allocate engineering resources to balance delivery commitments, team capacity, and long-term sustainability.
• Identify staffing, skill, and capacity risks and develop mitigation plans.
• Support professional development through training, certifications, conferences, and ongoing learning opportunities.
• Facilitate team decision-making, conflict resolution, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Improve engineering processes, documentation standards, and team operating practices.

• Partner with Product Management to understand business priorities, customer needs, and platform initiatives.
• Participate in technical discovery, solution planning, and effort estimation.
• Communicate priorities, timelines, and customer expectations to the team.
• Develop and maintain delivery plans based on team capacity and engineering estimates.
• Coordinate with Product Delivery and other engineering teams to ensure release readiness and successful execution.
• Drive accountability for delivery commitments and project outcomes.
• Identify execution risks, technical dependencies, and cross-team impacts and elevate as needed.
• Recommend scope, sequencing, or technical tradeoff decisions to support delivery objectives.

• Oversee code review practices and ensure adherence to mobile engineering standards and best practices.
• Guide technical design discussions with a focus on scalability, maintainability, performance, and security.
• Define and promote engineering standards, architectural patterns, API guidelines, and coding conventions.
• Ensure mobile applications and platform components maintain clear module…