Senior Engineering Manager, Core Mobile Experience
1 day ago
Role Description
At Dropbox, we believe in simplifying the way people work together. We provide a range of innovative cloud-based solutions to empower individuals and businesses to share, access, and collaborate on their files seamlessly. Engineering Managers are pivotal in shaping our mission of building a more enlightened way of working where everyone can unleash their creative potential without constraints.
This role leads the Core Mobile Experience team, which owns most of Dropbox's core user-facing mobile surfaces and is foundational to the File Sync and Share experience that underpins customer trust. As Engineering Manager, you'll lead up to 25 engineers, drive high-impact outcomes through ambiguity, and foster a culture of innovation, ownership, and operational excellence. Working closely with cross-functional partners in a virtual-first environment, you'll combine strong technical and people leadership to shape strategy and deliver meaningful business and customer impact.
In this role, you will partner with a dedicated Product Manager to be the directly responsible individuals for executing on critical company-wide business objectives, with direct oversight from the CEO. They will accountable for the business impact of the same.
Our Engineering Career Framework is viewable by anyone outside the company and describes what's expected for our engineers at each of our career levels. Check out our blog post on this topic and more here.
Responsibilities
- Directly manage up to 25 direct reports, as a single execution unit
- Partner with multiple Product Managers to plan roadmaps and sprints
- Responsible for making tradeoffs between feature work and addressing long term technical debt
- Responsible for excellence in software quality, engineering practices and operations.
- Lead their team through standard Agile processes, such as backlog management, stand ups, retros, etc
- Review and Approve engineering designs and able to set technical direction (in collaboration with a Technical Lead)
- Drive cross-org initiatives while leading execution and actively supporting the career growth and development of your direct reports
Many teams at Dropbox run Services with on-call rotations, which entails being available for calls during both core and non-core business hours. If a team has an on-call rotation, all engineers on the team are expected to participate in the rotation as part of their employment. Applicants are encouraged to ask for more details of the rotations to which the applicant is applying.
Requirements- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics) or equivalent technical experience
- Minimum of 8 years of people management experience with an engineering team
- Minimum of 10 years as a software engineer or equivalent technical experience
- Must have experience managing engineering organizations of 20 or above, and experience managing managers
- Must have experience being a hands-on mobile engineer at a senior level
- Must have worked in a consumer user-facing team (versus a platform team, a developer-facing API-based product, etc)
- Must have experience running a standard Agile process such as backlog management, stand ups, retros, etc
- Setting strategic direction on a consumer-facing product
- Experience building cross platform (iOS & Android) software
Canada Pay Range $204,900—$277,200 CAD
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