Engineering Manager (Mobile)

About Softonic

At Softonic, people come first. We’re a multicultural team passionate about building digital experiences used by millions of users worldwide. Guided by a fail fast, learn faster mindset, we encourage curiosity, experimentation, and continuous improvement, to make a real impact.

Our culture is shaped by four principles:

• Step up: Take ownership and act with integrity.

• Work smart: Focus on impact and efficiency.

• One team: Collaborate openly and support each other.

• Think big: Stay curious and challenge the status quo.

Team up with us to grow your career in an international, collaborative, and people-focused company where your ideas matter and your work reaches a global audience.

About the role

As Engineering Manager for the Native team, you'll lead the people and technical direction behind our mobile apps and the backend services that power them. You'll manage up to two engineering teams while staying hands-on with reviewing architecture, guiding technical decisions, and jumping into React Native or Kotlin issues when needed. Working closely with the Director of Engineering, you'll balance delivery, team growth, and technical excellence while shaping the Native roadmap to support our company goals.

Key responsibilities

• Manage up to two engineering teams, combining native and cross functional profiles.

• Guide development of our React Native app and the Kotlin native modules behind it, with Swift and Objective-C modules planned ahead.

• Stay hands on with the codebase: review architecture decisions and support engineers directly on technical problems.

• Drive technical decisions on exposing backend endpoints through our API gateway.

• Own infrastructure decisions tied to the Native team: Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Crossplane, and GCP.

• Remove roadblocks for your teams and keep delivery aligned with Product Owners.

• Align Tech Owner OKRs each quarter with Product needs.

• Facilitate decisions within your teams and with business stakeholders, backed by clear diagnosis and recommendations.

• Build the mid to long term Native team strategy with the Director of Engineering.

• Support your teams’ growth and engagement by managing performance, career development, time off, and day-to-day people matters, while partnering with HR, Agile Coaches, and Tech Owners to create a positive team environment and ensure people practices are followed.

Must have

• 5+ proven years managing engineering teams, including direct experience leading native mobile development.

• Hands-on Engineering Manager who stays close to the code: reviews architecture, jumps into React Native or Kotlin issues when needed, and does not manage from a distance.

• Hands on background building native apps yourself before moving into management.

• Proven record managing cross functional teams, not only native specialists.

• Experience managing up to two teams at the same time.

• Strong grasp of React Native and Kotlin.

• Experience with monorepo setups across multiple native apps.

• Knowledge of how to package and distribute a native app outside official stores, in addition to standard App Store and Play Store releases.

• Comfort exposing and consuming backend services through an API gateway.

• Working knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Crossplane, and GCP.

• Solid grasp of our backend stack: NodeJS, TypeScript, JavaScript, and PHP.

• Experience running Scrum, Kanban, or Lean.

• Coaching and mentoring skills for direct reports and key stakeholders.

• Comfort with Jira or Trello for lifecycle management.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Swift or Objective-C in production.

• Experience with Kotlin Multiplatform or Flutter.

• Background scaling a native app across iOS and Android at the same time.

• Exposure to multi module Kotlin architectures.

• Experience partnering with platform or infra teams on Terraform and Crossplane setups.

• Prior work in a product with millions of active users.

Why Softonic?

• Private Health Care

• Hybrid Work Model (3 days on-site per week in Poblenou area)

• Flexible remote work options during certain periods of the year

• Flexible Spending Plan & Free Tax Consultant

• Wellhub app access

• Learning & Development: Language Classes (English, Spanish, Catalan) and Training Program

• Workplace Amenities: Dining Room, Gaming Room, Terraces, and complimentary fresh fruit, coffee, snacks, and drinks

• Team & Social Events: Pizza & Beers every Thursday

• Lifestyle Benefits: Discounts at gyms and restaurants

• Additional Time Off: Birthday leave

• Choice of Equipment: Mac or Windows laptop

Softonic is committed to equal opportunity and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religious beliefs, color, gender, age, citizenship, origins, disability, sexual orientation, sexual identity, background, marital status, or any other characteristic. If you need any specific accommodation/adaptation due to a disability during the recruitment process, please send us an email to [email protected] with your request and we'll contact you.

You are welcome to share your pronouns in your application (e.g., she/her, he/him, they/them).