Senior Engineering Manager - Mobile

Mercury
San Francisco +1 more
Remote

Who this role is best for

A natural match if you have experience leading mobile engineering teams with a focus on fintech.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with a background in managing long-term mobile product development teams
    — “the team has been building apps for over a decade and have a strong passion for their craft”
  • Individuals with a track record of shipping new products in the fintech domain
    — “passionately product-minded and has experience building and shipping new products”
  • Professionals skilled in translating mobile-specific needs to broader engineering stakeholders
    — “translating mobile constraints and opportunities into language that resonates with backend, web, and infrastructure teams”

Things to consider

  • This role requires strong technical fluency in both iOS and Android development stacks
    — “strong expertise in both iOS and Android development”
  • The compensation is significantly higher for US-based candidates compared to Canadian ones
    — “US employees (any location): $239,000 - 298,800”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience in building and shipping mobile financial tools with cross-functional alignment
    — “create financial tools that work seamlessly for folks who aren't tethered to their desks”
  • Emphasize your ability to mentor engineers and build independent, high-performing teams
    — “developing engineers, creating clear advancement paths, and building teams that can execute independently”
  • Demonstrate your ability to influence product roadmaps and coordinate with multiple engineering teams
    — “selling ideas across teams, influencing product roadmaps, and creating structured approaches that elevate mobile”
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · Team

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • team mentorship
  • product innovation
  • cross-functional alignment
Typical background
engineering managementmobile development

Skills & requirements

Required

Mobile Engineering ManagementTechnical LeadershipCross-functional Collaboration

Preferred

Fintech ExperienceMobile App Development

Stack & domain

Mobile EngineeringAndroid DevelopmentIos DevelopmentKotlinSwiftRxswiftProduct ManagementTeam LeadershipMentorshipTechnical DiscussionsLeadershipCommunicationProblem-solvingTeamworkInfluenceCollaboration

About the role

Original posting from Mercury via Greenhouse

Our forebears found wisdom in the rhythm of tides and the migration patterns of birds, reading nature's encyclopedia with practiced eyes, while today's explorers navigate through infinite digital corridors and virtual landscapes that exist only in servers. Now our fingertips dance across surfaces that pulse with invisible electricity—screens that transform abstract data into living, breathing insights. These luminous windows have evolved beyond mere tools: they're archaeologists of information, cartographers of possibility, and architects, building bridges between the chaos of raw data and the clarity of human understanding in our interconnected, algorithm-driven world.

To guide the craftspeople who build these digital bridges, we're seeking a Mobile Engineering Manager who understands that modern business moves at the speed of thumbs fingertips—for entrepreneurs closing deals from coffee shops, CFOs approving payments from airport lounges, and small business owners managing cash flow between client meetings. We need someone to lead a team of exceptional mobile engineers who can create financial tools that work seamlessly for folks who aren't tethered to their desks but still need to move their businesses and lives forward.

As part of this role, you will:

Lead an experienced engineering team of 13, consisting of both Android & iOS engineers, including one backend engineer. The team has been building apps for over a decade and have a strong passion for their craft.

Mentor, retain, and provide feedback to high-performing engineers of all skill levels. You'll contribute to a culture of innovation, collaboration, and calculated risk-taking.

Work closely with engineering leaders, designers, product leaders, and other cross-functional stakeholders. Including selling ideas across teams, influencing product roadmaps, and creating structured approaches that elevate mobile without creating unnecessary overhead for other engineering teams.

Serve as the connective tissue between mobile and the broader engineering organization, translating mobile constraints and opportunities into language that resonates with backend, web, and infrastructure teams.

The ideal candidate for the role:

Has 5+ years of engineering management leading mobile and/or web engineering teams.

Has the ability to dive deep into technical discussions, with strong expertise in both iOS and Android development. 

Has familiarity with our mobile stack: Kotlin for Android & Swift/RxSwift for iOS. 

Is passionately product-minded and has experience building and shipping new products.

Excels at developing engineers, creating clear advancement paths, and building teams that can execute independently while staying aligned with broader company goals. 

The total rewards package at Mercury includes base salary, equity (stock options), and benefits. 

Our salary and equity ranges are highly competitive within the SaaS and fintech industry and are updated regularly using the most reliable compensation survey data for our industry. New hire offers are made based on a candidate’s experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers.

Our target new hire base salary ranges for this role are the following:

US employees (any location): $239,000 - 298,800

Canadian employees (any location): CAD $225,900 - 282,400

*Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group and Column N.A., Members FDIC.

Mercury values diversity & belonging and is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All individuals seeking employment at Mercury are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected characteristic. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities or special needs. If you need assistance, or an accommodation, please let your recruiter know once you are contacted about a role.

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Total Rewards

The total rewards package at Mercury includes base salary, equity (stock options/RSUs), and benefits.

Our salary and equity ranges are highly competitive within the SaaS and fintech industry and are updated regularly using the most reliable compensation survey data for our industry. New hire offers are made based on a candidate’s experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers.

Our target new hire base salary ranges for this role are the following:

US employees (any location):$239,000—$298,800 USDCanadian employees (any location):$225,900—$282,400 CAD

Source: Mercury careers (Greenhouse)

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