Director of Engineering (Mobile)
About Us
Radar is connecting digital experiences to the physical world with a location platform for every app, every device, and every developer. We help enterprises like T-Mobile, American Eagle Outfitters, and Zappos increase engagement and improve operations, powering impactful location-based experiences for over 100 million end-users.
Our team has backgrounds at companies like Google Maps, Foursquare, and Facebook. We are backed by top investors including Accel and Two Sigma Ventures.
We are remote-friendly and currently have 41 employees with headquarters in Brooklyn, NY.
About the role
We're looking for a Director of Engineering (Mobile) to own the Radar SDKs, which have been installed on over 100M devices over the past year. This includes includes 2 core SDKs for Android and iOS (open sourced here and here), and several cross platform libraries that are thin wrappers around the core libraries. The Radar SDKs provide simple "tracking options" on top of standard OS location and beacon primitives, enabling developers to quickly build location based experiences like curbside-pickup, location-based push notifications, on-premise experiences, and more.
You will report to our CTO.
What you’ll do:
- Work with Product Managers and Mobile Engineers to create world-class open-source mobile infrastructure
- Create team roadmaps, solicit and synthesize feedback and present at company all-hands forums
- Review Pull Requests across all SDK repos and occasionally write code
- Be a steward of Radar's high performance culture
- Help the team stay connected to the needs of our customers
- Own the quality and internal dogfooding of Radar's iOS and Android SDKs, along with thin wrapper SDKs in React Native, Flutter, Capacitor, Cordova, and Xamarin
- Help the mobile team push the boundaries of what's possible with CLLocationManager, GeofencingClient and FusedLocationProvider
- Own the Radar Toolkit Apps in the Play store and App Store
- Review documentation Pull Requests across all SDK repos and occasionally write documentation
You have:
- Lead high-performing mobile teams
- 10+ years of engineering experience
- Worked on a Mobile app with 10's of millions of installations
- Worked on an SDK, and understand the engineering challenges specific to SDKs
- Experience building Android infrastructure
- Experience with background location or network infrastructure with respect to Doze mode, Wake Locks, Background Execution Limits, App Standby Buckets, and Foreground Services
- Experience with Android Core Vitals, and the contributing factors from Partial Wake Locks, Excessive Wakeups, Background WiFi scans; how to triage them with Battery Historian
- Experience with FusedLocationProvider, GeofencingClient and Beacon monitoring and ranging
You’ll be working with:
- Tim Julien, CTO
- Craig Kochis, Engineering Manager
Perks:
- Remote-friendly
- Competitive compensation package and equity plan
- Medical, dental, and vision plans with 100% premiums covered for you
- 401(k) plan with employer match
- Flexible work hours and vacation policy
- Free CitiBike membership
- Monthly fitness reimbursement
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
