Mobile Application Engineering Manager

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>About First Due</strong></p>

<p>First Due’s mission is to prevent first responder injury or death by providing fire and EMS agencies with transformative, end-to-end software solutions that empower them to run safer, smarter, and more effective operations.</p></div><h3><strong>Job Title: <span class="NormalTextRun SCXW103893866 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="heading 1">M</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW103893866 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="heading 1">obile</span> <span class="NormalTextRun SCXW103893866 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="heading 1">Application</span> <span class="NormalTextRun SCXW103893866 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="heading 1">Engineering Manager</span></strong></h3>

<p><strong>Location</strong>: Remote - US Only<br><strong>Country</strong>: United States<br><strong>Department</strong>: Engineering<br><strong>Position Type</strong>: Full-Time<br><strong>Salary</strong>: $200,000</p>

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<h3><strong>Key Responsibilities:</strong></h3>

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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto"><span data-ccp-parastyle="font-claude-response-body" data-ccp-parastyle-defn="{"ObjectId":"679f3b2c-153b-5071-bf1d-4b0991a9f682|1","ClassId":1073872969,"Properties":[469777841,"Times New Roman",469777842,"Times New Roman",469777843,"Times New Roman",469777844,"Times New Roman",469769226,"Times New Roman",201342446,"1",201342447,"5",201342448,"1",201342449,"1",201341986,"1",268442635,"24",469775450,"font-claude-response-body",201340122,"2",134233614,"true",469778129,"font-claude-response-body",335572020,"1",134233118,"true",134233117,"true",134245417,"true",469778324,"Normal"]}">10+ years of hands-on experience in native iOS application development using Swift, including 3+ years in a formal engineering management or technical lead role directly managing mobile engineers.</span></span></li>

<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-ccp-parastyle="font-claude-response-body">Exposure to Android development (Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, or Android architecture components) is needed, especially for guiding a mixed iOS/Android team or evaluating cross-platform trade-offs.</span></li>

<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-ccp-parastyle="font-claude-response-body">Proven experience leading teams that build mission-critical, offline-first mobile applications. </span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"134245417":true}"> </span></li>

<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-ccp-parastyle="font-claude-response-body">Ability to partner with Product/PM to translate customer requirements into a roadmap, then drive the team to deliver against it.</span></li>

<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-ccp-parastyle="font-claude-response-body">Experience using tools like </span><span data-ccp-parastyle="font-claude-response-body">Instabug</span><span data-ccp-parastyle="font-claude-response-body">/Firebase to triage production issues, guide root-cause investigation, and coach engineers through customer-impacting bugs.</span></li>

<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-ccp-parastyle="font-claude-response-body">Strong understanding of mobile architecture patterns such as MVVM and Clean Architecture — enough to review designs, set technical direction, and unblock the team, even if not writing production code daily.</span></li>

<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-ccp-parastyle="font-claude-response-body">Working knowledge of RESTful API integration, data synchronization, and secure authentication mechanisms, sufficient to guide architectural trade-offs and review technical designs.</span></li>

<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-ccp-parastyle="font-claude-response-body">Working knowledge of </span><span data-ccp-parastyle="font-claude-response-body">WebViews</span> <span data-ccp-parastyle="font-claude-response-body">and ability to use it efficiently</span></li>

<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-ccp-parastyle="font-claude-response-body">Strong grounding in debugging, performance optimization, and memory management — enough to mentor engineers through hard problems and make sound trade-off calls.</span></li>

<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-ccp-parastyle="font-claude-response-body">Demonstrated experience leading mobile development initiatives, </span><span data-ccp-parastyle="font-claude-response-body">establishing</span><span data-ccp-parastyle="font-claude-response-body"> engineering best practices, hiring, and </span><span data-ccp-parastyle="font-claude-response-body">growing </span><span data-ccp-parastyle="font-claude-response-body">a team — </span><strong><span data-contrast="auto"><span data-ccp-charstyle="Strong">required</span></span></strong><span data-contrast="auto"><span data-ccp-parastyle="font-claude-response-body"> for this role.</span></span></li>

<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-ccp-parastyle="font-claude-response-body">Experience with performance management, 1:1s, career development planning, and cross-functional stakeholder communication.</span></li>

<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-ccp-parastyle="font-claude-response-body">Experience</span><span data-ccp-parastyle="font-claude-response-body"> with hybrid/cross-platform mobile frameworks — such as </span><strong><span data-contrast="auto"><span data-ccp-charstyle="Strong">Flutter, React Native, or Ionic/Capacitor</span></span></strong><span data-contrast="auto"><span data-ccp-parastyle="font-claude-response-body"> — is </span><span data-ccp-parastyle="font-claude-response-body">needed and </span><span data-ccp-parastyle="font-claude-response-body">useful for evaluating build-vs-buy and native-vs-hybrid strategy decisions.</span></span></li>

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<h3><strong>Qualifications:</strong></h3>

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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto"><span data-ccp-parastyle="font-claude-response-body" data-ccp-parastyle-defn="{"ObjectId":"679f3b2c-153b-5071-bf1d-4b0991a9f682|1","ClassId":1073872969,"Properties":[469777841,"Times New Roman",469777842,"Times New Roman",469777843,"Times New Roman",469777844,"Times New Roman",469769226,"Times New Roman",201342446,"1",201342447,"5",201342448,"1",201342449,"1",201341986,"1",268442635,"24",469775450,"font-claude-response-body",201340122,"2",134233614,"true",469778129,"font-claude-response-body",335572020,"1",134233118,"true",134233117,"true",134245417,"true",469778324,"Normal"]}">10+ years of hands-on experience in native iOS application development using Swift, including 3+ years in a formal engineering management or technical lead role directly managing mobile engineers.</span></span></li>