Engineering Manager- Mobile Platform Fitbit
San Francisco, CA

Job Description

At Fitbit, our mission is to help people lead healthier, more active lives by empowering them with data, inspiration and guidance to reach their goals.

We started our journey in 2007-as a team of two with one big idea. Since then, we've grown to over 1,500 employees, sold over 60mm devices, and built a health and fitness community across the globe. In fact, the Fitbit Community has taken enough steps to walk from the Sun to Pluto! Offering award-winning products, a top-rated mobile app and an easy-to-use online dashboard, Fitbit provides personalized experiences that help our users reach their goals. With a reenergized focus on innovative devices, interactive experiences, and enterprise health we are transforming the way consumers and businesses see health & fitness.

From your first steps as a Fitbitter, you will be at the forefront of developing new products. Our culture combines the spirit of startup with the perks of being public. We offer a competitive benefits package and amazing perks like unlimited snacks, Friday happy hours, onsite workout classes, and a strong focus on a healthy work-life balance. As part of our team, you'll have the opportunity to grow your career, contribute your ideas to life-changing products and services, and-above all-have fun doing it.

Fitbit's HQ campus is located in the heart of San Francisco with office locations in Boston, San Diego and around the world. Think you've found your fit?

The Role:

Are you passionate about overcoming technical hurdles, making things better for users where it really matters - the things they can't see? Fitbit's mobile platform team is looking for a visionary leader who will help us through the journey of modularizing our mobile applications to optimize for development speed, compile times, testability, application start up, and oh so many other opportunities! This is a high impact role that drives delight for our users and our developers.

This role reports to the Director of Software Engineering in our Consumer Services and Content line of business. This team is the cornerstone of what our developers build on, they drive best practices and accountability across the mobile engineering community here at Fitbit. Because this team is so critical to development practices and application architecture, this team interacts across the entire software organization including other lines of business where mobile development occurs.

For success in this role, the desired skills and experience include:

* 3+ years managing software development teams
* Experience with managing in a global business context
* Technical literacy in both Android and iOS development and best practices
* Connections in the broader mobile community to stay on top technical trends
* Practiced at being in a service provider type role, either for internal or external customers
* Proven record of driving and contributing to strategic initiatives

Fitbit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We recruit, hire, train, promote, pay, and administer all personnel actions without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), sex stereotyping (including assumptions about a person's appearance or behavior, gender roles, gender expression, or gender identity), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, military or veteran status, genetic information or other statuses protected by law. We interpret these protected statuses broadly to include both the actual status and any perceptions and assumptions made regarding these statuses.

San Francisco applicants: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance Fitbit will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.