Mobile Engineering Manager

Description

Jump is transforming the live sports experience with the only end-to-end fan engagement platform built specifically for sports teams and venues. By focusing on aligned incentives between teams and fans, our platform unifies ticketing, merchandise, and game day operations - creating a smoother, more fan-friendly experience.

Founded in 2021 by e-commerce innovator Marc Lore, MLB legend Alex Rodriguez, and entrepreneur Jordy Leiser, we’ve raised $60 million from top investors including Alexis Ohanian’s Seven Seven Six and Forerunner Ventures. Our platform powers teams across the NBA, WNBA, and NWSL helping them boost ticket sales and deliver innovative fan experiences.

We’re a remote-first team driven by core values - begin and build with trust, play like the underdog, win as a team, and do your thing. If you’re collaborative, adaptable, and eager to shape the future of live sports, Jump is the place for you.

The Role

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager, Mobile to lead a team building high-quality, performant consumer mobile applications at scale. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who cares deeply about product experience, engineering excellence, team development, and shipping quickly without sacrificing quality. You’ll partner closely with Product, Design, and Engineering teams to deliver elegant, scalable mobile experiences across a multi-tenant architecture powering numerous partner apps, while helping shape how modern AI-assisted development practices are integrated into the way we build.

We believe AI is fundamentally changing software engineering, and we’re looking for a leader who embraces emerging tools and workflows to help teams move faster, make better technical decisions, improve quality, and operate more effectively across development, testing, debugging, documentation, and delivery.

What You’ll Do

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of mobile engineers building consumer-facing iOS and Android applications

• Drive execution across the mobile roadmap while balancing speed, quality, scalability, and maintainability

• Partner closely with Product and Design to deliver intuitive, polished fan experiences

• Help evolve our mobile architecture and shared platform strategy across a multi-tenant ecosystem

• Collaborate with backend and platform engineering teams on APIs, data flows, observability, experimentation, and performance optimization

• Establish strong engineering practices around testing, CI/CD, monitoring, code quality, and operational excellence

• Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, inclusivity, and continuous improvement

• Leverage modern AI development tools and workflows to improve team productivity, accelerate delivery, and enhance engineering effectiveness

• Participate in technical design discussions and provide guidance on architecture and long-term technical direction

• Support recruiting, interviewing, and onboarding efforts as we continue scaling the engineering organization

What You’ll Bring

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including meaningful experience building and shipping mobile applications

• 2+ years of engineering management experience

• Experience with iOS development including Swift and SwiftUI

• Strong understanding of Kotlin Multiplatform

• Experience building consumer-facing applications with a strong emphasis on performance, reliability, and user experience

• Familiarity with scalable architectures, shared codebases, multi-tenant systems, and API-driven applications

• Strong communication skills and the ability to balance technical depth with business impact

• Comfort operating in fast-moving startup or high-growth environments

• Enthusiasm for AI-assisted software development and curiosity about how emerging tools can improve engineering workflows and product development

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience in sports, entertainment, ticketing, e-commerce, or other high-scale consumer products

• Familiarity with experimentation platforms, analytics, personalization, or engagement systems

• Experience leading distributed teams or managing teams through periods of rapid growth

Attributes that will make you successful on our team

• A strong desire to learn. You continually look for ways to build your skills.

• Tenacity. You enjoy working on challenges that others can’t or don’t want to tackle and you aren’t afraid of failing fast in order to find better solutions.

• Passion. You love using your technical skills to build products that solve real problems. You hold yourself to a high standard and help to elevate others as well.

• Empathy. You thrive in an environment where everyone can truly be themselves. You understand that our differing life experiences influence who we are and how we show up, and these diverse perspectives enrich both our team and our product.

• Customer-centric mindset. You can understand the problem to be solved and who we are solving it for.

• Innovation: Passion for exploring and implementing AI technologies to enhance automation, optimize workflows, and drive innovation

Benefits

• Remote first

• Competitive salary and equity

• Flex PTO policy

• 401(k)

• Generous medical, dental and vision plans

• 16 weeks paid parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers

• $1,000 reimbursement for work-from-home tech setup

• Company-paid sustainability subscription to ensure carbon neutrality is maintained for employee activities, such as travel

Compensation

Compensation is something we don’t want our candidates or employees to worry about. Our goal is to offer competitive salaries that are regularly benchmarked against the market. The core tenets of our compensation philosophy are fairness and transparency.

We have established a standardized leveling framework based on job scope and responsibilities. The compensation package for each level is standard across all engineering roles. This means that every person at a certain level is paid the same as everyone else, regardless of their background, previous compensation, location, or any other factor.

The compensation for this role is $230,000 and includes a generous equity package.

Application

Some candidates may see the requirements and feel unsure that they match all the criteria. We encourage you to apply! There's a good chance you have important skills that we have not stated. We especially encourage members of traditionally underrepresented communities to apply, including women, nonbinary folx, people of color, members of the LGBTQ community, veterans, and people with disabilities. We’re committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone can bring their authentic self and thrive, and we value the diversity brought by different life experiences.