Mobile Engineering Manager

Job Type

Full time

Pet Safe Brands, formerly known as Radio Systems Corporation, is headquartered in Knoxville, TN. It has been named “The Marble City” and "Scruffy City", names we have embraced for our unique charm. We are the home of 1982 World’s Fair and we boast of 21 craft breweries around the city ( for the Ale Trail). If you like to hike or camp, visit the Great Smokey Mountain National Park.

Take your pick of outdoor activities from walking, tubing, running, or biking in our Urban Wilderness. Knox County has an amazing public-school system, no state income tax, low property taxes and cost of living. We host Music and Shakespeare on the Square as well as Family Movie Nights on the Square during the summer months in downtown Knoxville.

Our Company: Pet Safe Brands is the world leader in pet products through our family of brands:

Pet Safe® Brand, Sport DOG® Brand, Invisible Fence® Brand, Kurgo and Premier Pet. Pet Safe® Brand makes every product from leashes and harnesses to water fountains and and litter boxes. We have an ambitious goal of touching over 21 million pets, people, and communities around the world each year. We serve a broad range of pet owners from providing the hunter the best gear for a successful hunt to accommodating the “Not-So-Crazy Cat Lady” with all the entertaining toys and effective solutions she could ever imagine.

We do this by creating a culture of enthusiasm, resilience, adaptability, and teamwork every day in the office. We work hard to be our community’s employer of choice as we all live our purpose:
We exist to unleash freedom for pet parents by keeping their pets happy, healthy and safe.

Summary Of Position

The Engineering Manager, Mobile Engineering will lead the design, development, testing, and delivery of Pet Safe’s mobile applications. This role is responsible for building a high-performing team and delivering high-quality customer experiences through modern mobile engineering practices, strong architectural standards, and disciplined quality execution.

This leader will bring deep expertise in native and cross-platform mobile technologies (Flutter, React Native), modern mobile architecture patterns (reactive programming, declarative UI, state management), and a strong engineering culture rooted in unit testing, automated test coverage, CI/CD, analytics, and operational excellence. This role will also drive the thoughtful adoption of AI-assisted workflows to improve developer productivity, reduce cycle time, and increase quality.

The organization leverages a distributed hybrid delivery model; the Engineering Manager will help balance internal development capacity with external partners (staff augmentation and project-based delivery) while maintaining clear engineering ownership, code quality, and knowledge retention.

Responsibilities

Mobile Engineering Delivery & Technical Leadership

• Lead the end-of-the-end delivery of mobile features and releases, ensuring high quality, performance, reliability, and strong customer experience.
• Own mobile engineering standards across architecture, code quality, security, and maintainability; establish best practices for cross-platform development (Flutter/React Native).
• Partner with backend/cloud, firmware/IoT, web/e-commerce, product management, design, and QA to deliver cohesive customer journeys across devices, app, and services.
• Drive strong operational rigor: release management, monitoring, crash/performance analytics, incident response, and continuous improvement.

• Set expectations and accountability for unit testing and automated test coverage as core engineering deliverables—not optional.
• Implement and evolve a test strategy for mobile (unit, integration,…