About GitHub:
As the global home for all developers, GitHub is the complete AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 100 million people, including developers from 90 of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to build amazing things together across 330+ million repositories. With all the collaborative features of GitHub, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code.
Locations:
In this role you can work from Remote, Germany
Overview:
GitHub is changing the way the world builds software, and we want you to help build GitHub. We're looking for an experienced software engineering manager to join a passionate, collaborative, distributed group of engineers on our team.
The GitHub Mobile team is changing the way that developers across the world collaborate on GitHub through native Android and iOS apps. Launched in March 2020, GitHub Mobile is one of our fastest growing products. The mobile team is part of the Client Apps organization, working alongside the GitHub Desktop and GitHub CLI teams.
This role will oversee one of our GitHub Mobile squads with Android, iOS, and server engineers located across Europe. You will partner closely with our other GitHub Mobile squad located in the United States.
Stack: Our apps are built natively with Kotlin for Android and Swift for iOS. Our apps communicate with GitHub via GraphQL and REST APIs.
Our team is distributed worldwide which means we work asynchronously most of the time.
You will work with design, data, engineering and product management to understand the problems we want to solve, then work with engineers to solve them via GitHub, Slack and Zoom
Responsibilities:
Cultivate an environment where team members are empowered and demonstrate a strong sense of ownership and ensuring that individuals on the team are learning, growing, and advancing in their careers
Meet with management and team members 1:1 on a regular basis
Help the team ships products, features, and bug-fixes regularly and guide them toward building high quality software across multiple platforms
Effectively communicate directions and decisions with the team and company
Build alignment with engineering, design, and product leadership
Guide the team toward building high quality software across multiple platforms
Qualifications:
Required:
Extensive experience of designing, developing, and shipping high-quality software at scale
Current direct and/or indirect people management or leadership skills and experience of developing a strategic roadmap for your team
Experience working asynchronously on a remote, distributed team
Experience communicating with high-level stakeholders and executing large initiatives in an iterative fashion
Preferred:
Experience with Android and/or iOS
Experience with Ruby on Rails
Knowledge of testing, profiling, and debugging practices
GitHub Leadership Principles:
GitHub values
- Customer-obsessed
- Ship to learn
- Growth mindset
- Own the outcome
- Better together
- Diverse and inclusive
Manager fundamentals
Leadership principles
- Create clarity
- Generate energy
- Deliver success
Who We Are:
GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 100 million developers and counting. We’re also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world’s software has open-source code in its DNA). Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub.
Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!).
At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We’re remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms.
Join us, and let’s change the world, together.
EEO Statement:
GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!
