Director, Mobile Engineering

  • Mumbai
  • Priceline

This role is eligible for our hybrid work model: Two days in-office.


Director, Mobile Engineering


Our Technology team is the backbone of our company: constantly creating, testing, learning and iterating to better meet the needs of our customers. If you thrive in a fast-paced, ideas-led environment, you’re in the right place.


In this role you will get to:


● Lead and manage the day-to-day operations of the iOS and Android Mumbai based

teams.

● Refine and execute on a vision for a mobile platform

● Coach, mentor and support a highly effective team of passionate engineers fostering a

high-performance culture.

● Be responsible for ensuring that the shared product vision and business goals are

realized through excellence in execution

● Be a part of the senior technical staff, working in an interdisciplinary manner with your

peers in other departments

● Enable a culture of creativity, collaboration, speed, innovation and excellence while

continuously elevating the quality and caliber of our engineering organization

● Recruit world-class engineering talent and participate in the process including

attracting, screening, and closing high caliber candidates.

● Participate in strategic planning meetings with product management, architecture

and design.

● Contribute to technical engineering designs, resource management and

implementations

● Manage the delivery of software using Agile best practices

● Help solve complex software engineering tasks, while maintaining high engineering

standards and practices

● Measure, manage and optimize key metrics such as velocity, estimation accuracy and

defect counts.

● Communicate effectively with your team members, your peers, and your internal and

external customers

● Administer budgets including Training, Travel, Morale, Contractor and Compensation

● Work closely with the senior leadership on department- and company-wide

initiatives.

● Most importantly, exemplify Priceline's cultural values of Customer Innovation, Team,

Accountability, and Trust.


Who you are:


● 12+ Years in Software Engineering

● 5+ Years managing Managers of Managers

● Demonstrated experience building high-scale and highly optimized customer-centric

mobile applications

● A track record of creating innovative solutions to challenging problems. A willingness

to challenge assumptions and negotiate solutions.

● Experience creating and defining developer enablement strategies, especially in a

mobile context

● Experience with and exposure to a wide array of mobile technologies, such as

Android, Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Swift, and SwiftUI.

● Technical expertise that enables meaningful conversations with product architects &

engineers

● Knowledge of release management and deployment workflow processes, particularly

with the nuances of app store deployment

● Exceptional interpersonal skills with a proven ability to build productive

cross-departmental relationships and motivate team members.

● Illustrated history of living the values necessary to Priceline: Customer, Innovation,

Team, Accountability, and Trust.

● The Right Results, the Right Way is not just a motto at Priceline; it’s a way of life.

Unquestionable integrity and ethics are essential.