Mobile Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager, Mobile Engineering

PetSafe 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. 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 PetSafe'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.

Responsibilities:

Mobile Engineering Delivery & Technical Leadership

• Lead the end-to-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.

Quality Engineering Mindset (Unit Testing & Automation First)

• 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, UI automation), aligned to TDD/BDD practices and measurable coverage goals.
• Improve defect prevention through shift-left practices: clear acceptance criteria, early validation, code review discipline, and automation at the right layers.
• Collaborate closely with QA/Quality Engineering to ensure consistent release readiness criteria and automated regression confidence.

CI/CD, Tooling, and Analytics

• Build and maintain robust mobile CI/CD pipelines to improve build reliability, release velocity, and developer experience.
• Establish standards for instrumentation and analytics (funnel, engagement, feature adoption, performance, and stability) to enable data-driven decisions.
• Ensure secure development practices including dependency management, scanning, and aligned release controls.

Payments, Security, and Compliance

• Lead implementation and ongoing stewardship of mobile payment experiences, with strong understanding of payments integration and PCI considerations (in partnership with security/compliance functions as needed).
• Ensure mobile engineering meets security, privacy, and compliance expectations appropriate for consumer applications and connected ecosystems.

AI-Enabled Engineering (Multiplier)

• Identify and implement AI-assisted workflows that measurably improve productivity and quality (e.g., test generation, code review support, defect triage, release notes, analytics insights, automation acceleration).
• Establish team norms and guardrails for safe, secure, and maintainable use of AI tools in development.

People Leadership, Hiring, and Team Development

• Hire, coach, and develop engineers; build a strong culture of accountability, ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Create clear expectations, career paths, and development plans for team members; provide regular feedback and performance management.
• Build a high-performing environment with strong onboarding, mentorship, and technical leadership at multiple levels (senior engineers, tech leads).

Internal / External Capacity & Partner Leadership

• Contribute to planning and delivery using a hybrid capacity model—balancing internal development capacity with external partner capacity (staff augmentation and project-based delivery).
• Establish clear engagement models with external partners, including onboarding, delivery expectations, engineering standards, documentation, and knowledge transfer.
• Drive partner performance through outcomes, delivery transparency, and quality gates; ensure external contributions meet security, reliability, and maintainability expectations.
• Maintain strong internal ownership of architecture, technical direction, and long-term product health while scaling throughput with external teams.

What Success Looks Like:

• Experience building mobile apps in the IoT / connected product space (device onboarding, provisioning, connectivity troubleshooting, telemetry-driven experiences).
• Experience working with nearshore/offshore partners in staff augmentation and/or project-based delivery models.
• Familiarity with BLE/Wi-Fi flows, device lifecycle patterns, and connected ecosystem constraints.
• Experience working in a multi-team environment with shared platforms/services and cross-functional delivery (product, design, QA, firmware, cloud).

Qualifications:

• 7+ years of software engineering experience with 3+ years in people leadership (or equivalent leadership experience with demonstrated team ownership).
• Strong hands-on background delivering consumer-facing mobile applications at scale, including performance, stability, and user experience considerations.
• Experience with cross-platform mobile frameworks such as Flutter and/or React Native (deep expertise in at least one; familiarity with native iOS/Android preferred).
• Strong command of modern mobile architecture concepts: reactive programming, declarative UI, state management, modular design, and testable architecture.
• Demonstrated use of TDD and/or BDD, with a track record of improving unit test discipline and automated test coverage.
• Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines for mobile delivery (build automation, signing, distribution, release orchestration).
• Experience using mobile analytics and observability tooling (crash reporting, performance monitoring, event instrumentation) to drive product and quality improvements.
• Experience delivering payments features and working within PCI-related constraints (in collaboration with security/compliance partners).
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field required; equivalent experience considered.