Manager, Software Engineering (Front End Infrastructure)

Dave vs. Goliath. We’re Dave.

Dave is a financial app on a mission to build products that level the financial playing field. 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’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. 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.

About the team and role

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.

What you’ll do

• Balance engineering leadership and people management with hands-on technical engagement, maintaining sufficient depth in the codebase and platform architecture to guide technical strategy, influence architectural decisions, and mentor engineers.
• Bring forward creative technical solutions to handle complex frontend platform challenges by collaborating with product engineering, design, marketing, and other stakeholders.
• Stay close enough to the code to guide architectural decisions, review mobile platform work, and provide technical direction across React Native, iOS, Android, and our CI/CD and developer tooling stack.
• Hire, lead, mentor, and motivate talented engineers and help them grow professionally.
• Collaborate with business and engineering stakeholders to come up with the roadmap, vision, and purpose for the mobile platform.
• Facilitate and contribute to conversations with Lead and Staff Engineers to come up with scalable mobile architecture, better engineering practices, and prioritize tech debt.
• Communicate the purpose and "why" behind the current and future priorities to the squad and stakeholders.
• Remove roadblocks for team members, both technical and otherwise.
• Be the bridge between the squad and the rest of the engineering org and leadership by making sure that information flows both ways.
• Be a spokesperson and champion for changes initiated by peers, managers, and leadership.
• Co-own and measure metrics to enable data-driven decision-making around platform health and developer experience (educated prioritization of tech debt, tooling investments, and developer productivity) in collaboration with engineering stakeholders. And take the lead on solutions to improve when needed.
• Work closely with peer Engineering Managers and their teams to prioritize and balance platform investments with squad-specific feature needs.
• 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.

What you’ll need

• 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.
• Hands-on technical depth in mobile development, React Native, iOS (Swift), and/or Android (Kotlin. Sufficient to guide architectural decisions, review mobile platform work, and evaluate tradeoffs in upgrade paths and shared library design.
• Experience building and maintaining developer infrastructure: CI/CD pipelines, mobile build tooling, and platform upgrade programs.
• 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.
• 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 collaborate well and come up with a technical vision for larger cross-squad infrastructure programs.
• Experience hiring and building diverse and inclusive high-performing teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• 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.

Technologies we use

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

Don’t let imposter syndrome get in the way of an incredible opportunity. We’re looking for people who can help us achieve our mission and vision, not just check off the boxes. If you’re excited about this role, we encourage you to apply. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.

Why you’ll love working here

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. 

A few of our benefits & perks:

💚 Opportunity to tackle tough challenges, learn and grow from fellow top talent, and help millions of people reach their personal financial goals

💻 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

💰 401(k) savings plan with matching contributions

📈 Financial advisor and financial wellness support

🏖️ Flexible PTO and generous company holidays, including Juneteenth and Winter Break

🎉 All-company in-person events once or twice a year and virtual events throughout to connect with your team members and leadership team

Dave Operating LLC is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and is dedicated to cultivating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We will consider for employment all qualified applicants and do not discriminate on any basis protected by federal, state, or local law, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance relating to an applicant's criminal history.