Software Development Manager - Mobile Technologies

Software Development Manager - Mobile Technologies (Miami/Hybrid)

This role is required to be based out of Miami. If you are out of the area, please do not apply if you are not willing to relocate to the Miami area.

Crew Boats Group is the fastest-growing digital business in the recreational boating space. We are a talented team of techies, creatives, marketers, closers and customer advocates who spend each day pushing the boundaries of technology to make buying and selling boats easy. We spend each day surrounded by 500,000 boats from across the globe. Our passion and unyielding dedication to getting people on the water influence our culture in ways you won't find at other companies.

We're the best at what we do because we're working in an industry we love. When you walk through our doors, you'll find smart, dedicated people who consider one another family. If you want to work in an inclusive, innovative environment where we encourage employees to collaborate, leverage their talents and actively shape the future of the company, then you will enjoy working here!

As the Software Development Manager for Mobile Engineering, you will lead the team responsible for the architecture, development, delivery and operation of Boats Group's React Native Mobile apps and our 3 million + user install-base. You will lead and grow engineers while staying close to the code: shaping architecture, reviewing critical changes, and working directly with the team to solve difficult technical and production problems.

You will own the technical direction of our mobile platform and help us evolve toward a modern, modular application architecture that can support multiple products, teams and customer journeys. You will help define how we use React Native and Expo across the mobile lifecycle from application structure and native integrations to CI/CD, over-the-air updates, observability, performance and App Store / Google Play delivery.

You will partner closely with Product, Design, Platform and other engineering leaders to translate business priorities into a mobile platform that can move quickly without sacrificing quality or maintainability. This role is Hybrid with some days required per week in our Miami Headquarters.

Our office is in the Brickell financial district that overlooks the entire city & ocean with breathtaking views, chock full of motorized standup desks, relaxation pods, ping pong table & shuffleboard in the kitchen, a zillion kinds of free coffee & snacks to choose from, and more!

• A role where you can lead engineers while still influencing architecture and contributing hands-on when it matters.
• The opportunity to shape the next generation of large-scale React Native applications and the platform underneath them.
• Ownership of modern mobile architecture, including modular or Superapp-style patterns, shared platform capabilities, native integrations and release strategy.
• An environment where Expo, automation, rapid iteration and over-the-air delivery can be used thoughtfully to increase engineering velocity.
• The opportunity to help good engineers get better and great ones continue to evolve.
• Responsibility for some of the biggest mobile apps in our industry marketplace, including Boat Trader and Yacht World.

• Own the technical direction and architecture of our React Native applications across iOS and Android, balancing product velocity, performance, reliability and long-term maintainability.
• Design and evolve a modular, Superapp-style mobile architecture with clear feature boundaries, shared platform services and reusable capabilities such as authentication, navigation, analytics, experimentation, notifications and design-system components.
• Lead our use of modern React Native and Expo, including the React Native New Architecture, Expo SDK, Expo Modules and appropriate native escape hatches when platform-specific functionality is required.
• Define and operate a safe over-the-air update strategy using Expo Updates / EAS Update, including runtime compatibility, release channels, staged rollout, rollback and clear rules for when a native store release is required.
• Own mobile build and release engineering, including EAS Build / Submit or equivalent CI/CD tooling, signing, App Store and Google Play releases, release automation and environment management.
• Act as a hands-on technical leader: participate in design sessions, review critical pull requests, prototype or code high-leverage work, and jump into difficult debugging or production issues alongside the team.
• Drive mobile performance and quality through measurable engineering practices around startup time, rendering performance, bundle size, memory use, crashes, ANRs, network behavior and overall app reliability.
• Establish strong observability and operational practices for mobile, including crash reporting, logging, release health, analytics and rapid diagnosis of production regressions.
• Create architecture standards and engineering guardrails…