Dave Inc.

Dave Inc.

Manager, Software Engineering (Front End Infrastructure)

United States · Director

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 43 days ago
TypeScriptSwiftKotlinReactReact NativeiOSAndroidNode.jsMySQLGCPCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesCI/CDRESTA/B TestingDesign SystemsAccessibilityLeadershipCollaborationProblem Solving

About the role

  • Dave's offerings include its flagship ExtraCash product, providing members up to $500 within minutes.
  • The company is on track to launch several new product offerings in 2026, including a Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) option.
  • Dave is focused on serving Americans who are financially vulnerable or living paycheck to paycheck.

Responsibilities

  • Bring forward creative technical solutions to handle complex frontend platform challenges by collaborating with product engineering, design, marketing, and other stakeholders.
  • Hire, lead, mentor, and motivate talented engineers and help them grow professionally.
  • Facilitate and contribute to conversations with Lead and Staff Engineers to come up with scalable mobile architecture, better engineering practices, and prioritize tech debt.
  • Establish processes that improve the mobile design-to-development workflow, partnering closely with design and product to ensure seamless collaboration on shared UI patterns and components.
  • It is redefining the financial landscape by leveraging technology to create an affordable, transparent, and user-centric access to liquidity for millions of Americans.
  • As a leading innovator in the U.S. financial services sector, Dave's digital financial platform offers products designed to meet the credit needs of those underserved by traditional financial institutions.
  • Dave is leading the charge in creating a new era of credit products that prioritizes speed, affordability, and accessibility, making it the go-to financial partner for those who need it most.
  • Familiarity with mobile observability and monitoring tools (e.g., crash reporting, session replay, performance tracing) and the ability to drive adoption of these tools across engineering teams.
  • Experience hiring and building diverse and inclusive high-performing teams.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of software development experience.
  • 1.5+ years of engineering management experience.
  • Hands-on experience with mobile or front-end development to guide architectural decisions, review mobile platform work, and evaluate tradeoffs in upgrade paths and shared library design.
  • Familiarity with mobile release process and app store regulatory requirements.
  • Experience with product analytics and experimentation platforms, with an understanding of how external vendor infrastructure supports product velocity.
  • Experience creating products or systems that are maintainable, with an appreciation for the compounding value of platform investments.
  • Ability to engage in technical and business discussions from both tactical and strategic viewpoints.
  • Experience in a fast-growing startup.

Nice to have

  • Hands-on experience with native iOS (Swift) or Android (Kotlin) development, particularly around OS upgrade cycles and native build tooling..
  • Experience contributing to or operating an open-source mobile project.
  • Fintech or regulated-industry experience, including familiarity with how mobile platform decisions affect compliance and customer data handling.
  • Experience integrating AI tooling into engineering workflows.
  • Experience with mobile CI/CD, including managing self-hosted runners, build infrastructure, and app store deployment pipelines.
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Skills

  • React Native / React
  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • MySQL or RDBMS
  • Google Cloud Platform (GCS, Cloud Run, etc.)
  • Docker / Kubernetes

Benefits

  • 💻 Flexible hours and virtual-first work culture with a home office stipend
  • 🏥 Premium Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance plans
  • 👶 Generous paid parental and caregiver leave
  • 📈 Financial advisor and financial wellness support
  • 🏖️ Flexible PTO and generous company holidays, including Juneteenth and Winter Break
  • Ability to collaborate well and come up with a technical vision for larger cross-squad infrastructure programs.
  • Collaborate with business and engineering stakeholders to come up with the roadmap, vision, and purpose for the mobile platform.

Company info

  • Dave is looking for an experienced and motivated Engineering Manager to join our Front End Infrastructure (FEI) team.
  • As an Engineering Manager at Dave, you will play an instrumental role in leading the squad responsible for the foundational systems that every mobile engineer at Dave relies on, from CI/CD pipelines and shared libraries to mobile observability, product analytics, experimentation platform, design systems, and release tooling.
  • You'll be responsible for fostering a collaborative and innovative environment, overseeing project delivery, and driving excellence across the entire mobile engineering organization.
  • This role reports to the Director, DevX and Infrastructure Engineering.
  • At Dave, our people are just as important as our product.
  • Our culture reflects the values that guide who we are, how we work, and what we aspire to be.
  • Daves are member-centric, helpful, transparent, persistent, and better together.
  • We strive to create an environment where all Daves feel valued, heard, and empowered to do their best work.
  • As a virtual-first company, team members can live and work anywhere in the United States, except Hawaii.
  • Dave is a financial app on a mission to build products that level the financial playing field.
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