Manager, Software Engineering, AR/VR - Mobile Facebook
Los Angeles, CA

Job Description

The AR/VR team at Facebook builds the VR hardware and platform to let you experience anything, anywhere, with anyone. Additionally, Facebook has teams dedicated to building social experiences in VR that make it easier to spend time with your friends, wherever they are. Virtual reality's potential to connect the world is immense-and we're just getting started. The AR/VR team is driving the state of the art forward with breakthrough work in computer vision, advanced optics, eye tracking, mixed reality, and new ways to map the human body.

The Oculus app is a mobile app for iOS and Android that allows people to set up their Oculus Go headset, discover new content and experiences, and connect with their friends in VR. The app is built with React Native, Objective-C, and Java.

As an Engineering Manager in the Oculus Companion App team, you will lead, manage, and inspire engineering teams developing highly polished creative and engaging user facing products. You'll help the team fulfill technical, operational, and business requirements by putting yourself in the trenches. You'll come up with new product opportunities or evaluate existing ones, and work with Design, Product Management, Data Science and User Research to plan and prioritize those products. You'll guide architecture and work along with engineers to develop those products, experiment, and launch successful experiences to users. The ideal candidate will have experience delivering consumer software products focused on incredible customer experiences centered within Android and/or iOS.

RESPONSIBILITIES

* Help build and lead great software teams to deliver world-class VR experiences.



Drive customer and developer experience, continually raising the bar on functionality, usability, and simplicity.

Champion engineering and operations, establishing metrics and process for regular assessment and improvement.

Establish a solid project framework and development processes.

Provide technical leadership and guidance to both your team members and your project peers.

Set clear expectations and create a positive work environment based on accountability, in collaboration with the engineering and management teams.

Implement products along with engineers on your team.

Work closely with our product, design, data science, user research and partner teams to build roadmaps for new user facing products for the Oculus Companion App.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

* BS/MS in Computer Science or a related technical field.



5+ years of working experience iOS Objective-C, Android Java or JavaScript.

5+ years of work experience architecting, developing, and launching iOS and/or Android apps with polished and engaging user-facing components.

3+ years of working experience for setting software product direction for teams for user-facing products.

3+ years of experience managing engineering teams including hiring/termination and performance management.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

* Experience with React and/or React Native.



Coding experience with AR/VR products.

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