Director, Mobile Engineering

This role is eligible for our hybrid work model: Two days in-office.

Our Technology team is the backbone of our company: constantly creating, testing, learning and iterating to better meet the needs of our customers. If you thrive in a fast-paced, ideas-led environment, you’re in the right place.

Why this job’s a big deal:

As one of our leaders, you’ll have a big impact on our products and their technical direction, as well as influence the company's technical strategy.  You will also have a big impact on your team members, their day-to-day experience on our team and their growth over time.  To continuously deliver on our goal to be the best travel deal makers in the world for millions of our customers, we need to have well designed technology that is reliable, performs well, and allows for the continuous improvements we make to our products, and we also need to have teams that feel engaged, productive, empowered, and sustainable.

The Director of Mobile Engineering works closely with peers in the product organization, alongside business stakeholders from across the company, to set the architectural direction for the mobile apps and the mobile platform. 

In this role you will get to:

• Lead and manage the day-to-day operations of the iOS and Android Mumbai based teams

• Refine and execute on a vision for a mobile platform

• Coach, mentor and support a highly effective team of passionate engineers fostering a high-performance culture.

• Be responsible for ensuring that the shared product vision and business goals are realized through excellence in execution

• Be a part of the senior technical staff, working in an interdisciplinary manner with your peers in other departments

• Enable a culture of creativity, collaboration, speed, innovation and excellence while continuously elevating the quality and caliber of our engineering organization

• Recruit world-class engineering talent and participate in the process including attracting, screening, and closing high caliber candidates.

• Participate in strategic planning meetings with product management, architecture and design

• Contribute to technical engineering designs, resource management and implementations

• Manage the delivery of software using Agile best practices

• Help solve complex software engineering tasks, while maintaining high engineering standards and practices

• Measure, manage and optimize key metrics such as velocity, estimation accuracy and defect counts

• Communicate effectively with your team members, your peers, and your internal and external customers

• Administer budgets including Training, Travel, Morale, Contractor and Compensation

• Work closely with the  senior leadership on department- and company-wide initiatives.

• Most importantly, exemplify Priceline's cultural values of Customer Innovation, Team, Accountability, and Trust.

Who you are:

• 12+ Years in Software Engineering 

• 5+ Years managing Managers of Managers

• Demonstrated experience building high-scale and highly optimized customer-centric mobile applications

• A track record of creating innovative solutions to challenging problems.  A willingness to challenge assumptions and negotiate solutions. 

• Experience creating and defining developer enablement strategies, especially in a mobile context

• Experience with and exposure to a wide array of mobile technologies, such as  Android, Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Swift, and SwiftUI. 

• Technical expertise that enables meaningful conversations with product architects & engineers

• Knowledge of release management and deployment workflow processes, particularly with the nuances of app store deployment 

• Exceptional interpersonal skills with a proven ability to build productive cross-departmental relationships and motivate team members. 

• Illustrated history of living the values necessary to Priceline: Customer, Innovation, Team, Accountability, and Trust.

• The Right Results, the Right Way is not just a motto at Priceline; it’s a way of life. Unquestionable integrity and ethics are essential.

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