Mobile Engineering Manager/Team Lead
Swoop is a rapidly growing business headquartered in San Francisco with a mission to deliver the best roadside assistance experience possible with technology driven solutions. Our goal is to provide stranded drivers with ease and transparency during frustrating and unexpected roadside incidents.
Our Boston area based parent company, Agero, is the market leader, providing roadside protection for 100M+ Americans and performing 12M+ roadside services annually. As a connected vehicle service, we are in deep discussions with leading car manufacturers about their connected and autonomous vehicle experiences. We combine the benefits of a stable, profitable parent company, while offering the career opportunities and pace of a Silicon Valley startup.
Our team is passionate about addressing real-world problems with digital solutions. We’re looking for enthusiastic problem solvers who are ready to join a fast paced team and make a big impact.
ABOUT THE ROLE
The Swoop platform team is building something that no one else has built and we have three user perspectives on the same data. This creates interesting UI/UX challenges - We're using React on the Web, and React Native for iOS and Android. We’re taking antiquated manual systems and redefining them into digital platforms, open APIs, and exceptional customer experiences.
We are searching for an exceptional engineering leader to help scale our engineering team and technology. Qualified candidates will be equally comfortable with technical leadership, people management, recruiting top talent, and hands-on development work. Our teams work on a variety of technically challenging problems in platform and API design, mobile and web application development, and much more.
RESPONSIBILITIES
You will grow and mentor a strong, high-performing front end engineering team.
You will collaborate with design and product teams regarding strategy, scope, and schedule.
You will drive standards on quality, reliability, scalability, and performance.
Help shape the front end architecture and in instituting best practices throughout our code base
You will help create infrastructure and processes to support rapid organizational growth.
You will foster and support a culture of innovation and excellence within the engineering organization.
Own the front end web code and experience.
Help shape the front end architecture and in instituting best practices throughout our code base
REQUIREMENTS
You have 2+ years experience managing and hiring mobile engineering teams.
You have 5+ years professional experience in website or UI/UX development and detailed knowledge of front end technologies and SPA’s
You have proven success delivering highly reliable and scalable software systems.
You enjoy working at small companies and building systems from the ground up
Optimize developer productivity by continuously seeking efficiencies in our processes.
- Hands on experience with React Native is strongly preferred
NICE TO HAVE
Experience in a production React environment
Experience working with GraphQL
Experience working with Relay
Experience working with Rails API
ABOUT SWOOP
Swoop, along with our parent company, Agero, has set out to redefine the roadside assistance experience by offering real time transparency, unmatched scale and seamless integration with most of the major automotive and insurance brands. Combined, we protect over 115 million drivers and are making the roads safer by using the best technologies, customer service and partnerships with companies like Lyft.
Here's a brief video about our Company: https://vimeo.com/206753666.
Learn more at https://joinswoop.com
ABOUT AGERO
Agero’s mission is to safeguard consumers on the road through a unique combination of platform intelligence and human powered solutions, strengthening our clients’ relationships with their drivers. We are a leading provider of driving solutions, including roadside assistance, accident management, consumer affairs and telematics. The company protects 115 million vehicles in partnership with leading automobile manufacturers, insurance carriers and other diversified clients. Managing one of the largest national networks of service providers, Agero responds to more than 12 million requests annually for assistance. Agero, a member company of The Cross Country Group, is headquartered in Medford, Mass., with operations throughout North America. To learn more, visit www.agero.com and follow on Twitter @AgeroNews.
THIS DESCRIPTION IS NOT INTENDED TO BE A COMPLETE STATEMENT OF JOB CONTENT, RATHER TO ACT AS A GUIDE TO THE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS PERFORMED. MANAGEMENT RETAINS THE DISCRETION TO ADD TO OR CHANGE THE DUTIES OF THE POSITION AT ANY TIME.