Manager, Software Engineering, Mobile Frameworks

Snap Inc is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Snap contributes to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together. The Company’s three core products are Snapchat, a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends, family, and the world; Lens Studio, an augmented reality platform that powers AR across Snapchat and other services; and its AR glasses, Spectacles.

Snap Engineering teams build fun and technically sophisticated products that reach hundreds of millions of Snapchatters around the world, every day. We’re deeply committed to the well-being of everyone in our global community, which is why our values are at the root of everything we do. We move fast, with precision, and always execute with privacy at the forefront.

We're looking for a seasoned Software Engineering Manager to join Snap and lead Snap’s Client Frameworks group. This group increases Snap’s shots on goal by building the software frameworks that underpin our iOS and Android apps, enabling us to reach over 900M users while keeping our hundreds of iOS and Android engineers moving fast. They are responsible for foundational architectural investments including: migrating a multi-million LOC ObjC codebase to Swift without a ground-up rewrite, structuring our code so that dozens of feature teams can move fast without resource contention, evolving our in-house cross-platform development framework, developing our next generation Design System, and more.

The ideal candidate is a seasoned, deeply technical Engineering Manager with extensive experience leading mobile platform teams that support hundreds of feature team engineers, who is excited to grow their scope and prove themselves in a senior management role.

What you’ll do:

• Help define the technical vision for how the Snapchat mobile apps are architected and how the codebase can scale to new platforms such as web. 

• Build cutting edge tooling to make Snap developers as productive as possible

• Build and grow a team of exceptional software engineers and technical leaders and be a strong technical mentor

• Work cross functionally with Design & engineering partners to gather feature asks & set up a long term roadmap for observability.

• Influence key decisions and tradeoffs on architecture and implementation of client side features.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Strong computer science fundamentals and technical skills

• Proficient in making data-driven decisions in complex technical problems.

• Ability to lead and represent the team’s goals and projects with cross-functional business partners and leaders

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in a relevant technical field such as computer science or equivalent years of practical work experience

• 8+ years of post-Bachelor’s software development experience; or a Master’s degree in a technical field + 7+ year of post-grad software development experience; or a PhD in a related technical field + 4+ years of post-grad software development experience

• 1+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager

• Experience leading teams in the mobile platform space: performance, architecture, frameworks, design systems

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working on both iOS and Android apps

• Experience working with cross-platform frameworks.

• Experience managing TLs and other engineering managers.

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