This position is for an experienced leader who is responsible for overseeing the performance of a team of platform engineers while driving technical strategy across our software stack, with particular focus on mobile-hybrid and frontend frameworks. The role involves managing high-performing teams, ensuring the delivery of sound features, and contributing to a culture of success within the organization. The ideal candidate will balance perfectionism with pragmatism while guiding the teams in a fast-paced environment.
- Leads a small team and is accountable for decision-making of daily activities, ensuring team execution and removing blockers.
- Experience handling difficult conversations, managing through disagreements, and communicating effectively with the team.
- Can articulate technical concepts in a clear, concise manner, that is easily understandable by technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
- Experience leading a team through unfamiliar situations. Serves as change champion for new initiatives.
- Learns quickly when faced with new problems in own area of work; understands and synthesizes more complex, broader problems.
- Sometimes proactively experiments to find solutions; tolerates uncertainty.
- Views own and other successes and mistakes as learning opportunities.
- Aligns skill sets appropriately to the problem to enable better problem-solving.
- Helps define problems in collaboration with other stakeholders before moving into solution-generation. Identifies possible pitfalls in various solutions.
- Experience working with a small team setting goals, managing workers and workload, and providing supervision.
- Mentors team members by providing feedback and seeks to remove blockers and often takes the lead on projects and initiatives.
General Skills:
- 6-8 years of engineering experience
- This is a first level people manager role requiring the ability to learn to develop and mentor a team.
- Up to three years’ experience of progressive responsibility as an engineer on development teams directly responsible for building and delivering software intensive systems.
- Exposure to technology and management principles involved in planning, organizational change management, resource allocation, human resource modeling, leadership techniques, and coordination of people.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Excellent communications
Technology Required:
- Maintains strong technical skills enabling code contributions while demonstrating ability to quickly master and lead initiatives in new technology areas.
- Experience with mobile development platforms (iOS/Android) and cross-platform frameworks, particularly Ionic and Capacitor for hybrid mobile applications
- Proven track record of successfully releasing and maintaining applications in both Apple App Store and Google Play Store, including familiarity with app store guidelines, review processes, and compliance requirements
- Understanding of mobile app performance optimization, memory management, and platform-specific considerations
- Experience working with Vanilla Javascript, Javascript Frameworks, Node, Typescript, GraphQL, RESTful APIs, OTEL, Ionic, Capacitor
- Experience with or strong interest in AI-powered development tools (GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) and their integration into engineering workflows.
- Experience in cloud native technologies especially within AWS.
- Nice Have: AWS Associate Architect Certification
Day to Day Responsibilities:
- Managing sprint planning and execution, including breaking down complex technical requirements, estimating effort, and balancing new feature development with technical debt.
- Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to define technical requirements and timelines, translating business needs into technical specifications.
- Lead and optimize the software development pipeline by identifying performance bottlenecks, implementing robust code review processes, establishing comprehensive testing strategies, enhancing system observability, and ensuring production readiness of all deployments.
- Conduct regular 1:1 meeting with team members to provide mentorship, career development guidance, and actionable performance feedback.
- Build and maintain a high-performing, inclusive team culture that promotes collaboration, innovation, and professional growth.
- Oversee maintenance of a sustainable engineering platform while also shipping features at a regular pace.
- Ensure production applications are stable and operating as expected.
OneMain Financial (NYSE: OMF) is the leader in offering nonprime customers responsible access to credit and is dedicated to improving the financial well-being of hardworking Americans. Since 1912, we’ve looked beyond credit scores to help people get the money they need today and reach their goals for tomorrow. Our growing suite of personal loans, credit cards and other products help people borrow better and work toward a brighter future.
Driven collaborators and innovators, our team thrives on transformative digital thinking, customer-first energy and flexible work arrangements that grow lives, careers and our company. At every level, we’re committed to an inclusive culture, career development and impacting the communities where we live and work. Getting people to a better place has made us a better company for over a century. There’s never been a better time to shine with OneMain.
Because team members at their best means OneMain at our best, we provide opportunities and benefits that make their health and careers a priority. That’s why we’ve packed our comprehensive benefits package for full- and some part-timers with:
- Health and wellbeing options including medical, prescription, dental, vision, hearing, accident, hospital indemnity, and life insurances
- Up to 4% matching 401(k)
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (10% share discount)
- Tuition reimbursement
- Paid time off (15 days’ vacation per year, plus 2 personal days, prorated based on start date)
- Paid sick leave as determined by state or local ordinance, prorated based on start date
- Paid holidays (7 days per year, based on start date)
- Paid volunteer time (3 days per year, prorated based on start date)
Target base salary range is $140K-$160K, which is based on various factors including skills and work experience. In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for a competitive compensation program that is based on individual and company performance
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