Software Engineering Manager, Mobile

ABOUT US

At RADAR, we're transforming the way the world thinks about physical retail. RADAR has raised over $104M from top investors, retailers, and strategics and works with some of the world's retail brands including American Eagle and Gap. We’re building the future of in-store experience where every product and every person can be precisely located in real time.

Our platform combines RFID and AI to unlock hyper-accurate product visibility and automation at scale. From real-time inventory tracking to seamless checkout experiences, our technology empowers some of the world’s largest retailers to streamline operations, reduce loss, and elevate both employee and customer experiences.

We’re a fast-growing, mission-driven startup where bold ideas, collaboration, and impact are at the core of everything we do. Join us as we reshape the physical world with digital precision, starting with retail and expanding far beyond!

OUR VALUES

• Mission-Driven: We're transforming retail with cutting-edge technology and building something that truly matters.
• Collaborative Team: We thrive on curiosity, shared goals, and solving complex problems together.
• High Impact: You’ll make meaningful contributions from day one and help shape the future of our product and company.
• Clear Communication: We value honesty, humility, and respectful dialogue—everyone’s voice matters.
• Balanced Lives: We work hard, but not at the expense of well-being. We respect time, boundaries, and life outside of work.
• Diverse Perspectives: We believe better ideas come from diverse backgrounds, experiences, and viewpoints.
• Empathy-Driven Design: We build with deep respect for our end users, listening closely to their feedback and needs.

ABOUT THE JOB

Come help RADAR redefine the retail experience by leading our Android and iOS efforts. As Software Engineering Manager for Mobile, you will own the strategy, architecture, and delivery of the apps that put real-time inventory intelligence in the hands of store associates and managers around the world. You will work closely with product, design, hardware, and platform teams to ship software that makes a measurable difference in how the world's largest retailers operate. This is a role for someone who leads through execution, drives quality at pace, and raises the bar for the engineers around them.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of mobile engineers building native Android and iOS applications used daily in retail environments.
• Partner with product and design to define the mobile roadmap, set engineering priorities, and deliver with quality and consistency.
• Drive architecture decisions that balance speed of iteration with long-term maintainability across platforms, including client infrastructure efforts that help us scale across the product.
• Establish and evolve engineering practices including code review, testing standards, and deployment processes.
• Develop engineers through coaching, clear expectations, and hands-on technical engagement.
• Collaborate with firmware, platform, and integration teams to surface real-time RFID data through intuitive mobile experiences, including direct integration with RFID readers.
• Work cross-functionally with product managers and UX designers to shape the user experience from concept through delivery.
• Communicate progress, risks, and tradeoffs clearly to engineering leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Help set the cultural tone for the team around teamwork and innovation, and contribute to our broader engineering strategy.

ABOUT YOU

You are an experienced engineering leader who has shipped production mobile applications and built the teams behind them. You care deeply about code quality and user experience, and you bring a clear point of view on how to build software that holds up in demanding, real-world environments. You not only optimize your own work but create the conditions for your engineers to do their best work too. You lead with empathy, communicate with candor, and deliver.

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• 5+ years of experience with iOS or Android mobile development.
• 3+ years in an engineering management or team lead role.
• Strong technical foundation in mobile architecture patterns, testing practices, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Track record of delivering complex projects on time in a fast-moving product environment.
• Clear, direct communicator with experience working across product, design, and infrastructure teams.

Preferred:

• Experience in enterprise, B2B, or operational mobile applications used in field or retail settings.
• Familiarity with Bluetooth, NFC, or RFID-based data flows in mobile contexts, including device-level integration with RFID readers.
• Proficiency in both Android (Kotlin) and iOS (Swift) development.
• Experience with Kotlin Multiplatform, React Native, or other cross-platform approaches.
• Background in hardware-integrated software products.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

In your first 30 days, you will:

Learn and Orient 

• Meet your team and establish working relationships with key cross-functional partners across product, design, firmware, and platform engineering.
• Get hands-on with the codebase: understand the current mobile architecture, CI/CD setup, and open work in flight.
• Review the existing roadmap and backlog; understand current commitments and near-term delivery expectations.
• Identify the top two or three execution risks facing the team and bring a point of view on how to address them.

In your first 60 days, you will:

Engage and Deliver

• Take ownership of team delivery: run planning, own the sprint cadence, and hold the team accountable to commitments.
• Establish clear engineering standards where gaps exist: code review expectations, testing coverage, and release process.
• Ship at least one meaningful feature or improvement end to end alongside the team.
• Develop a clear picture of each engineer's strengths, growth areas, and what they need to do their best work.

In your first 90 days, you will:

Lead and Raise the Bar

• Own the mobile roadmap in partnership with product: present a clear 6-month delivery plan to engineering leadership.
• Complete at least one architecture or infrastructure improvement that meaningfully improves team velocity or product reliability.
• Establish team rituals and a working culture that reflects RADAR's values and supports sustained execution at high quality.
• Have direct, substantive development conversations with each engineer grounded in observed work and clear expectations.

At RADAR, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package. The expected base salary range for this position is $200,000 - $250,000. Individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors,  including job-related skills, experience and relevant education or training.You will also be eligible to receive other benefits including: equity, comprehensive medical and dental coverage, life and disability benefits, 401k plan,  flexible time off, and paid parental leave. The pay range listed for this position is a good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible base compensation at the time of posting. 

Research has shown that women & underrepresented minorities are more likely to read lists of requirements and consider themselves unqualified if they don't meet every single one. This list represents what we're ideally looking for, but everyone has unique strengths & weaknesses, and we hire for strength & potential, not lack of weakness.

Use of artificial intelligence or a LLM such as ChatGPT during the interview process will be grounds for rejection of your application process.