Mobile Engineering Manager, Dropbox
Mobile Retention
$174.1-265k
Salary dependent on candidates location + RSUs
Smart workspace company
Job no longer available
Smart workspace company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$174.1-265k
Salary dependent on candidates location + RSUs
1001+ employees
Company mission
Dropbox's mission is to design a more enlightened way of working.
Role
Who you are
- Minimum of 3 years of people management experience
- Minimum of 5 year as a software engineer, mobile developer, or equivalent technical experience
- Experience managing mobile teams, with the mobile app development cycle, and with the Google & Apple app stores
- Experience managing engineers of different experience levels, in different countries (and time zones)
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics) or equivalent technical experience
Desirable
- Experience with Swift or Kotlin
What the job involves
- As the Mobile Engineering Manager of the Mobile Retention team, you will be responsible for managing a team of iOS & Android engineers working on the Dropbox apps.
- You will work within an Engineering, Product, and Design triad to shape the roadmap, set direction, and ensure strong execution.
- You will play a crucial role in helping the mobile apps to meet the needs of our customers, overseeing critical functionality such as the ability to preview content.
- As the mobile org is a small and tight community, this role includes outsized impact and an ability to influence the critical Dropbox business
- Lead a team responsible for critical business metrics, delivering impactful projects on time and measuring their impact
- Navigate complex business landscapes, working with key partners in EPD (Engineering-Product-Design) & Data Science, to find new opportunities to grow the mobile business
- Drive results by identifying impactful opportunities and ensuring long-term growth, maintainability, and customer impact
- Inspire your team with a clear direction, fostering an environment where innovation flourishes and bold ideas are encouraged
- Foster talent development by supporting personal growth, career advancement, and equitable hiring practices
- Cultivate a collaborative and inclusive culture, championing team members and upholding our company values
- Ensure software and architecture excellence through quality feedback, risk mitigation, and alignment with technical strategy and business goals
- Many teams at Dropbox run Services with on-call rotations, which entails being available for calls during both core and non-core business hours. If a team has an on-call rotation, all engineers on the team are expected to participate in the rotation as part of their employment. Applicants are encouraged to ask for more details of the rotations to which the applicant is applying
Our take
Dropbox started by helping people bring together their files in one central place. The contents of these folders are synchronised to Dropbox's servers along with other computers and devices where the user has installed Dropbox, keeping the same files up-to-date across all devices.
Nowadays, there are lots of competing companies in cloud storage, and some with better distribution (e.g. Google and Apple). This explains why Dropbox is making a big push to reinvent itself after a fairly disappointing run since its IPO in 2018. The new Dropbox turns folders into "Spaces", which are collaboration hubs for teams, complete with comment streams, artificial intelligence tools and integrations into services such as Slack.
The company continues to build out its offerings through acquisitions, such as that of Formswift, bolstering its end-to-end agreement workflow capabilities. Indeed, It's very clear that Dropbox is trying to make a big move from being just a storage company. This seems to be a necessary move given the competitive nature of the industry it is operating within.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jan 2014
$350m
SERIES C
Oct 2011
$250m
SERIES B
Total funding: $607.4m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- We offer a generous company contribution toward individual medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage, including contributions toward dependent premiums
- Keep sharing and collaborating with friends and family even when you’re not at work with free Dropbox space for your whole crew
- Take the vacation you’ve always dreamed of with up to four consecutive weeks of paid time off
- Celebrate common holidays without your paycheck taking the hit with 11 company paid holidays
- Each Dropboxer has access to 32 hours of paid volunteer time off each year that they can use to support the causes close to their hearts
- We regularly offer panels and seminars featuring the best minds in tech, talent, diversity, and beyond that any Dropboxer can attend from the comfort of their home
- No two Dropboxers are the same, and their benefits shouldn’t be either. Our Perks allowance empowers employees to customize their benefits in line with what really matters to them
- Start building a successful 401K retirement plan with our dollar for dollar contribution match, up to $1,500 per quarter to a maximum of $6,000 per calendar year
Company HQ
Mission Bay, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Arash Ferdowsi
(Co-Founder)Studied Computer Science at MIT before founding Dropbox straight out of university
Drew Houston
(Co-Founder & CEO)Studied Computer Science at MIT before founding Dropbox straight out of university
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