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.