Senior Engineering Manager, Mobile

At Mudflap, we're modernizing the $1 trillion trucking industry, the backbone of the U.S. economy. By helping over 100,000 underserved small businesses save over $1 billion on fuel, Mudflap has quickly grown into a profitable fintech platform that processes billions in annual payment volume. As our Senior Mobile Engineering Manager, you'll lead the evolution of mobile engineering at Mudflap. You'll oversee a growing mobile organization while helping define how mobile engineers partner with cross-functional product teams as we evolve toward a product-pod model. Beyond leading teams, you'll shape our long-term mobile architecture, establish engineering best practices, and build the technical foundation for a rapidly expanding suite of products serving the trucking industry. This role requires exceptional engineering leadership, deep mobile expertise, and a strong point of view on modern software development—including how AI and agentic workflows can improve engineering productivity, quality, and developer experience. Work Location: This role is based in Palo Alto and involves a hybrid work approach, balancing in-office collaboration with the ability to work remotely. Expectations (In this role, you will): - Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing mobile engineering organization of 10+ engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and customer obsession. - Drive the delivery of high-quality mobile experiences for consumer fintech and marketplace products, balancing near-term roadmap execution with long-term platform investments. - Execute Mudflap's mobile engineering strategy, shaping our architecture, platform direction, and technical standards as the business and product portfolio continue to grow. - Lead the evolution of our mobile organization as we expand toward a product-pod operating model while maintaining a strong centralized mobile engineering discipline. - Own our mobile architecture strategy, making thoughtful decisions across native, cross-platform, and hybrid approaches that balance developer productivity, platform consistency, performance, and customer experience. - Partner closely with Product and Engineering leaders across backend, infrastructure, and web to define technical vision, organizational structure, roadmap priorities, and strategic investments that enable a cohesive mobile platform. - Champion engineering excellence by driving best practices across code quality, testing, CI/CD, observability, and AI-assisted, agentic software development. Experience (What we look for): - 5+ years of engineering management experience leading high-performing mobile engineering teams, ideally with 5–10 direct reports. - Strong mobile engineering background with deep experience across native and cross-platform frameworks, along with the ability to evaluate emerging mobile technologies and make the right call for the team's stage. - Experience defining and evolving mobile architecture at scale, including evaluating tradeoffs between native and cross-platform approaches. - Background building consumer mobile products, ideally in fintech, marketplaces, or other high-growth technology companies. - Proven success scaling engineering organizations through periods of technical and organizational change in both startup and larger company environments. - Strong technical leadership with a track record of delivering complex products while balancing technical excellence with pragmatic business outcomes. - Experience introducing modern engineering practices, including AI-assisted development, automation, and agentic workflows that improve developer productivity and software quality. - Excellent communication, systems thinking, and cross-functional collaboration skills, with the ability to influence Product, Design, Data, and Engineering leaders. - Passion for coaching engineers, building high-performing teams, and advocating for mobile-specific considerations such as performance, offline capabilities, and network effici…