Senior Manager of Software Engineering, DroneDeploy
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Drone mapping and analytics platform
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Drone mapping and analytics platform
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make the power of interactive digital twins accessible and productive for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of experience leading a mobile team responsible for an application with thousands of monthly active users
- 7+ years of experience delivering mobile applications, with deep technical expertise in Swift/iOS (preferred) or Kotlin/Android
- Technical awareness beyond mobile, including how mobile apps interact with backend services, networking layers, and web-based components, and the ability to engage the right partners when specialized knowledge is required
- Demonstrated experience making data-driven decisions. You own your team's metrics from crash-free session rates to various reliability service level objective metrics
- Proven experience managing distributed engineering and QA teams and fostering a high-performing, remote-first culture built on accountability and excellence
- You bring clarity to ambiguous technical challenges and rally teams around pragmatic solutions
- You thrive at the intersection of deep technical work and strategic thinking, knowing when to dive into the details and when to zoom out
- You’ve operated as a strategic partner to product and leadership and can influence direction beyond your immediate team
- You’re an excellent written and verbal communicator comfortable addressing both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- You're driven by the satisfaction of shipping technology that makes a real difference for users
What the job involves
- Talented engineers delivering an app that sits at the heart of DroneDeploy’s field-capture strategy. You’ll own the end-to-end mobile experience, from 3D scanning to core media capture and syncing. Partnering with the Product, Vision, and 3D teams, you’ll build the tools that power our customers' most critical on-site workflows
- As a Senior Engineering Manager, reporting to the Director of Engineering, you'll be responsible for the team's performance, growth, and delivery, elevating the team's capabilities and how they operate
- This is a high impact role focused on scaling a bi-platform (iOS and Android) team to execute complex projects. Your primary focus will be on delivery efficiency, team health, and coaching as you lead the charge to expand our flagship iOS app (with in-field analysis and AR) and build our new Android capture app from the ground up
- Manage and grow a remote-first team of mobile engineers. You'll be responsible for their performance, career development, and for fostering a high-autonomy, team-centered culture
- Act as the key engineering partner to Product, Design, and other stakeholders. You'll drive alignment, influence strategy, make pragmatic trade-offs, and communicate decisions clearly
- Drive the execution of your team's roadmap from goal setting, to project planning, and day-to-day execution, holding the team accountable for delivering results with predictability
- Lead recruitment efforts to scale the team, specifically building out our new Android capabilities
- Foster a culture of quality, reliability, and observability, guiding the team toward strong engineering practices
Our take
Drone Deploy, headquartered in San Francisco, is a cloud-based platform specializing in drone mapping and analytics. With a mission to revolutionize how businesses acquire, manage, and interpret reality capture data from drones, 360-degree cameras, and mobile ground robots.
The company is dedicated to staying at the forefront of innovation within the drone industry, and it consistently seeks out opportunities to broaden the horizons of its capabilities. The company's strategic acquisitions, such as Rocos and StructionSite, are pivotal in achieving this goal.
With substantial investments, including a funding round led by Energize Ventures and AirTree, Drone Deploy is well-positioned for further expansion. The company aims to diversify beyond the drone sector and intensify its efforts to establish a stronger presence in the European market.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Sep 2025
$15m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Feb 2021
$50m
SERIES E
Total funding: $157.6m
Company benefits
- Hybrid Workplace - We believe that people do best when they're happy at work. Whether you’re happiest working from home or want to join us in the office, it’s OK with us
- Great Benefits - It's important to support physical and mental well-being, so we offer the kind of benefits that help meet employee needs and those of their dependents
- Growth and Development - We're in a dynamic and innovative industry and we’re committed to investing in our employees to ensure they're growing, creating, and breaking new ground in their careers
- Work/Life Balance - Time away from work is important to recharge your batteries and enjoy life. We provide flexible hours and paid time off, and work with employees to support their priorities
Company HQ
Showplace Square, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Jono Millin
(Co-Founder)Previously founded AdvertEyes, Zoomatelo, Infatics.
Michael Winn
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously served as the Tech Lead of Big Data & Tools and Large Customer Sales for Google. Also co-founded Zoomatelo.
Nicholas Pilkington
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously co-founded Luno. Experience as a Software Engineer for Toshibi and NVIDIA.
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