Manager, Engineering - Mobile Applications

What You’ll Do Hire, mentor, coach, and lead a team of mobile engineers delivering iOS and Android applications built with React Native, aligned to both short‑ and long‑term business goals. Own delivery and operational excellence for consumer‑facing and internal mobile applications, with accountability for reliability, performance, security, and user experience. Guide the team across the full mobile application lifecycle, from ideation and design through development, testing, release, and ongoing support. Mature Mobile DevSecOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, secure code scanning, and app store release automation. Champion modern mobile engineering practices such as component‑based architecture, automated testing, configuration as code, and consistent release processes to improve quality and time to market. Lead with a strong customer focus, ensuring mobile experiences are intuitive, accessible, performant, and aligned to user needs across platforms. Drive data‑driven culture using mobile telemetry, analytics, crash reporting, performance monitoring, and operational metrics. Partner closely with Product, UX, Solution Architecture, Security, Platform, and Operations teams to align priorities and deliver outcomes. Identify and execute technical priorities including platform upgrades, dependency management, OS compatibility, and technical debt reduction. Act as a technical and business leader, contributing to vendor selection, RFPs, and vendor management related to mobile platforms and tooling. Ensure adherence to Premera’s Secure Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Agile practices, and engineering standards, with a strong emphasis on security, privacy, and compliance. Provide technical guidance and, when necessary, participate in sprint activities to unblock the team with pull request reviews, comments, suggestions, and engineering decisions. What You'll Bring – Required Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field, or 4 years of equivalent experience in information technology. 6+ years of experience in application development or engineering, including prior team or program leadership experience. Proven experience leading, mentoring, and developing high‑performing engineering teams. What You'll Bring – Preferred Qualifications Hands‑on experience delivering mobile applications using React Native. Production experience building and supporting iOS and Android applications, including app store publishing and lifecycle management. Proficiency with JavaScript/TypeScript, mobile architecture patterns, and state management. Experience integrating mobile applications with backend APIs and cloud‑based services. Experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred; AWS or Google Cloud acceptable). Familiarity with mobile CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and release management. Experience working in large‑scale, regulated enterprise environments. Experience partnering with security, architecture, and infrastructure teams. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Deep expertise in mobile application architecture, including React Native, performance optimization, and cross‑platform tradeoffs, having successfully launched applications on both iOS and Android stores. Hands‑on experience building and operating applications in cloud and hybrid environments, leveraging public cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, Google) and modern hosting models (PaaS, IaaS, containers). Strong understanding of DevSecOps practices, with experience implementing CI/CD and secure delivery pipelines. Proven ability to use metrics and analytics to inform technical decisions and drive business outcomes. Experience delivering customer‑centric products in an Agile environment, partnering closely with product, UX, solution architecture, and business stakeholders. Demonstrated success in planning, prioritization, and execution, balancing workloads while delivering high‑quality results. Proven capability to manage budgets, vendors, and partners effectively. Strong communicator and collaborator, able to operate across teams and at all levels of the organization, including senior leadership. Demonstrated ability to build, retain, and scale high‑performing engineering teams. Compensation National Plus Salary Range: $135,600.00 - $230,500.00 (National Plus salary range is used in higher cost of labor markets including Western Washington and Alaska). We generally target up to and around the midpoint of the range. Benefits Medical, vision, and dental coverage with low employee premiums. Voluntary benefit offerings, including pet insurance. Life and disability insurance. Retirement programs, including a 401(k) employer match and a pension plan that is vested after 3 years of service. Wellness incentives with mental well‑being resources, counseling services, stress management programs, and mindfulness programs. Generous paid time off. Tuition assistance for undergraduate and graduate degrees. Employee recognition program. Hybrid model flexibility with on‑site resources and community opportunities. Free convenient on‑site parking and subsidized on‑campus cafés. Complementary fitness & well‑being center with in‑person and virtual workouts and nutritional counseling. On‑site activities such as health and wellness events, coffee connects, disaster preparedness fairs, and more. Equal Employment Opportunity Premera is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Premera seeks to attract and retain the most qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other protected characteristic under applicable law. 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