Director of Mobile Engineering

Company 

Credit Genie is a mobile-first financial wellness platform designed to help individuals take control of their financial future. We leverage artificial intelligence to provide personalized insights and are building a financial ecosystem by offering tools and services that provide instant access to cash, and building credit. Our goal is to empower every customer to achieve long-term financial stability.

Founded in 2019 by Ed Harycki, former Swift Capital Founder (acquired by PayPal in 2017). Backed by Khosla Ventures and led by industry pioneers from companies such as; PayPal, Square, and Cash App, we are well positioned to build the future of inclusive finance through cutting-edge technology and customer-centric solutions.

Overview

As the Mobile Engineering Director, you’ll lead our mobile strategy, execution, and evolution, ensuring we ship high-quality, secure, and performant customer experiences at a rapid pace. You’ll be accountable for mobile delivery, quality, and technical direction across one or more teams. You’ll partner closely with Product, Design, Data, Backend, and cross-functional leadership to align mobile investments with company priorities, scale our mobile platform responsibly, and develop a strong bench of mobile engineering talent. This is a rare opportunity to join a fast-growing fintech startup where your work will have a direct, meaningful impact on both the company and the financial well-being of our users.

What You'll Do

• Own and drive the mobile org’s outcomes across delivery, quality, reliability, and technical direction, ensuring our iOS and Android apps consistently meet a high bar for customer experience and operational excellence.

• Lead, grow, and retain a high-performing mobile organization by mentoring engineers and managers, building career ladders and development plans, and creating a culture of accountability, ownership, and urgency.

• Set the mobile technical vision and roadmap in partnership with Product and Design leadership, balancing near-term product delivery with long-term platform investments (architecture, build systems, testing, observability, and developer experience).

• Oversee mobile architecture and platform decisions, ensuring mobile systems are scalable, secure, maintainable, and aligned with broader engineering standards and long-term product goals.

• Establish and continuously improve engineering operating mechanisms for mobile teams: planning, execution, resourcing, cross-team coordination, and stakeholder communication; to deliver complex, multi-quarter initiatives predictably.

• Drive operational excellence for mobile, including release safety, incident readiness, on-call health, reliability practices, performance monitoring, and post-incident learning to reduce repeat issues and improve customer trust.

• Build and scale the team through hiring and onboarding, maintaining a strong talent bar and inclusive culture while developing future technical and people leaders across the org.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience managing mobile engineering teams, including managing managers and/or leading multiple teams

• 8+ years of hands-on experience building and shipping native mobile applications (iOS and/or Android) in production

• Experience owning mobile strategy and execution for mission-critical applications at scale, with strong outcomes in reliability, performance, and release safety

• Proven track record of leading organizations to deliver complex, cross-functional, multi-team initiatives

• Strong people leadership skills with demonstrated success developing engineers and managers, building leadership bench strength, and scaling healthy teams

• Fosters a culture of ownership, accountability, and urgency while maintaining high standards for quality and craft

• Deep familiarity with incident management and on-call operations, including driving systemic improvements through retrospectives and operational metrics

• Comfortable working in fast-paced, iterative environments with a bias for action and strong stakeholder management

• Solid understanding of security, data privacy, and regulatory compliance, with the ability to translate requirements into pragmatic engineering practices

Benefits and Perks

Our goal is to provide a comprehensive offering of benefits and perks that promote better financial, mental, and phy