Senior Engineering Manager, Mobile

Title: Senior Engineering Manager, Mobile

Location: CA-San Francisco

• United States
• Engineering
• Experienced Professional
• Senior Manager
• Yes
• 4494
• Full Time

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Job Description

About GitHub

As the global home for all developers, GitHub is the complete AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 150+ million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate and experiment across 420+ million repositories. With all the collaborative features of GitHub, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code.
Locations
In this role you can work from Remote, United States
Overview

GitHub Mobile empowers developers to stay connected, productive, and collaborative on the go. Our iOS and Android apps bring the power of GitHub directly to mobile devices, helping millions of developers review code, manage issues, and stay engaged with their projects anytime, anywhere.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Engineering Manager to lead a team building and scaling GitHub’s Mobile experiences. This role is pivotal in shaping how developers interact with GitHub across device platforms, ensuring stability, usability, and delight in our mobile apps.

As a Senior Engineering Manager for Github Mobile, you will:

• Foster a collaborative environment where engineers, product managers, and designers work together to deliver meaningful outcomes.
• Cultivate a culture of inclusivity, psychological safety, and sustainable delivery, where team members feel empowered to do their best work.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to engineers, supporting their career development and growth.
• Partner closely with peers across GitHub to deliver high-quality, resilient, and user-centered mobile products.
• Promote engineering excellence and innovation, ensuring the team continuously improves technical practices and approaches challenges with creativity.

This is a highly collaborative and distributed role—your team will span North America and Europe, including time zones from the US West Coast to Germany. You’ll thrive in a remote-first environment using both synchronous (including meetings across these time zones) and asynchronous communication effectively.

Responsibilities

• Lead a distributed team by conducting regular 1:1s across time zones from the U.S. West Coast to Germany, providing feedback, mentorship, and career growth opportunities, and fostering a healthy, inclusive, high-performing culture.
• Partner with engineering, product management, and design to align on priorities, requirements, and customer needs for GitHub’s mobile experiences.
• Coach the team to improve processes, architecture, and delivery practices through both real-time collaboration and asynchronous tools (GitHub Issues, PRs, Discussions, Projects).
• Ensure the team consistently delivers well-designed systems, reliable code, and high-quality user experiences.
• Coach others to understand the customer need via data interpretation (e.g., metrics, bugs, customer feedback), identify problems and/or trends for resolution, and other actionable metrics of value.
• Guide the team to iteratively ship features and bug fixes that balance speed, quality, and long-term velocity.
• Solve complex challenges by providing creative solutions that advance the team’s goals and improve resilience.
• Drive innovation by encouraging exploration of new tools, methodologies, and approaches that enhance mobile delivery.
• Facilitate inclusive discussions so diverse perspectives are heard in technical and product decision-making.
• Communicate progress, findings, risks, team health, and customer impact clearly to stakeholders and leadership.
• Recruit, onboard, and develop top engineering talent, fostering a culture of innovation, continuous learning, and sustainable practices.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 6+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
  • OR Associate’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 2+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
  • OR Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 1+ year(s) direct and/or indirect people management or leadership experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading mobile engineering teams or working with mobile platforms (iOS and/or Android).
• Demonstrated ability to build collaborative partnerships across engineering, product, and design.
• Strong people management experience, with a proven ability to lead engineering teams while building inclusive, high-performing cultures and fostering effective, sustainable engineering practices.
• Demonstrated success coaching and developing engineers to achieve their full potential.
• High emotional intelligence and empathy, with the ability to address interpersonal issues constructively and promote team health.
• Strong project leadership skills: balancing priorities, managing dependencies, and ensuring successful delivery of complex initiatives.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to thrive in a distributed, remote-first environment and communicate effectively with both peers and leadership.

Compensation Range
The base salary range for this job is USD $112,800.00 - USD $299,300.00 /Yr.
These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. An individual's base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant. At GitHub certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.

GitHub values

• Customer-obsessed
• Ship to learn
• Growth mindset
• Own the outcome
• Better together
• Diverse and inclusive

Manager fundamentals

• Model
• Coach
• Care

Leadership principles

• Create clarity
• Generate energy
• Deliver success

Who We Are
GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 150 million developers and counting. We’re also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world’s software has open-source code in its DNA). Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub.
Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!). At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We’re remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms.
Join us, and let’s change the world, together.
EEO Statement
GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!