Software Engineering Manager, Mobile Products

The role

You will lead a customer-facing product team building across a React Native mobile app and Next.js web experiences. You will manage senior engineers and lead the team through an AI-native workflow shift.

What you will do

• Own the outcomes of a customer-facing team of senior engineers
• Shape the roadmap alongside Product and Design
• Lead the team to build compounding systems instead of one-off features
• Lead an AI-native team and own how the team plans, defines, builds, reviews, and tests
• Deliver hard feedback and reset expectations with team members
• Invest in strongest people
• Make calls on trading polish for speed to get customer feedback
• Communicate team strategy, roadmap, and progress to partners and leadership

Required qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering, including hands-on individual contributor experience
• 2+ years managing engineering teams
• Experience managing software engineers with accountability for team outcomes
• Experience leading an AI-native product engineering team
• Strong product and business instincts
• Track record of delivering hard feedback and resetting expectations
• Technical credibility on a modern web or mobile product stack
• Comfort operating in ambiguity
• Experience with data, experimentation, and measurement
• Experience hiring engineers

Nice to have

• Experience in consumer fintech
• Experience with React Native, Next.js, TypeScript, GraphQL, and Apollo, or a comparable cross-platform mobile and web stack
• Experience with personalization, recommendation, and systems built on customer data
• Experience partnering with compliance and security on tradeoffs
• Experience defining an operating model rather than inheriting one
• Experience coaching other managers, formally or informally

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision health care plans
• Flexible Vacation Time Off + 11 holidays + holiday company shutdown
• New Parent Leave
• Mental health support
• Paid sabbatical after 5 years
• Health and Dependent Care FSA and HSA Plan with monthly contribution
• Monthly Wellness Stipend
• Cell Phone Stipend
• Wifi Stipend (remote only)
• Work from home equipment stipend (remote only)
• Co-working space subsidy (remote only)
• Employee Resource Groups

About the company

NerdWallet is on a mission to bring clarity to all of life's financial decisions. They have built an inclusive, flexible, and candid culture.