Director of Engineering, Mobile Development

About Zscaler

Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so that customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange is the company’s cloud-native platform that protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location. 

With more than 10 years of experience developing, operating, and scaling the cloud, Zscaler serves thousands of enterprise customers around the world, including 450 of the Forbes Global 2000 organizations. In addition to protecting customers from damaging threats, such as ransomware and data exfiltration, it helps them slash costs, reduce complexity, and improve the user experience by eliminating stacks of latency-creating gateway appliances. 

Zscaler was founded in 2007 with a mission to make the cloud a safe place to do business and a more enjoyable experience for enterprise users. Zscaler’s purpose-built security platform puts a company’s defenses and controls where the connections occur—the internet—so that every connection is fast and secure, no matter how or where users connect or where their applications and workloads reside.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and implementation of Mobile development solutions 
• Hands on involvement with the team, with the main trait of leading by example
• Be the change agent fostering innovation and improving efficiencies
• Iterate to come up with, document and follow through on agile process improvements for high performance
• Effectively track and manage changing priorities and handle multiple urgent issues
• Support the Product Owner with work PRD discovery, dev estimates, scheduling, team assignments 
• Work closely with architects to validate and realize prototypes
• Provide technical guidance on feasibility and offer innovative solutions
• Coordinate and align with local and remote engineering and design teams to ensure project timelines are met
• Participate in an iterative design/development process to produce amazing team results
• Produce high-quality code and assist other engineers in producing high-quality code
• Come up with automation frameworks and manage team’s contributions with the unit tests
• Lead and coordinate efforts on code reviews, bug triage, build processes, etc
• Have a customer-focused mindset for delivering a product that is centered around a great customer experience
• Work with customers on escalations, demos and beta trials
• Be an active participant in and help enhance an agile development environment
• Mentor engineers to grow team’s skillset

Skills, Knowledge & Education:

• 15+ years of software development experience with at least 5 years of focus in Mobile product development 
• At least 5 years of most recent experience managing engineering teams 
• Solid knowledge and hands-on experience with Objective C/Swift/Java and mobile applications
• Experience in agile collaboration models (e.g. Kanban/Scrum) 
• Demonstrated ability to effectively set up and steer distributed developments including necessary integration and release steps.
• Track record of hiring, grooming and retaining top talent
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• A desire to build the most intuitive and best-performing endpoint applications
• Minimum Bachelors in Engineering is required

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The base salary range listed for this full-time position excludes commission/ bonus/ equity (if applicable) + benefits.

Base Pay Range$182,000—$260,000 USD

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