Engineering Manager
at Citrix - Empower the original mobile device
What we're looking for:
You will help define the next generation experience for Citrix Workspace app on desktop platforms and modernize tech stack. If you believe in a bottom-up culture, are passionate about delivering high quality software at scale, striving for technical agility in a fast paced, high performance environment, then we are looking for you!
Position Overview
The Engineering Manager is responsible to lead a critical iOS development team in Bangalore focused on building exciting new solutions for our iOS users .This team will be driving key strategic initiatives while collaborating closely with our iOS development teams globally.
Role Responsibilities
- Build and manage a team of highly skilled software engineers using agile practices.
- Responsible for design, development, maintenance of software which is used by millions of people daily.
- Has flexibility to spend significant time as an individual contributor as well, writing code and designing applications and APIs.
- Design and develop advanced applications for mobile platforms (Mobile Apps and/or cloud services)
- Help own and deliver on the Team goals owned out of Bangalore by challenging the existing thinking and bringing on new technologies and solutions by applying your experience to guide the future of Citrix.
- Collaborate with various stakeholders across different business functions and located in different Geos.
- Lead the team through the development process and seek opportunity for continuous improvement and best practices on multiple projects of high complexity.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science and 9+ years of software development experience, with 1+ years in a Technical manager role
- Extremely deep understanding of mobile development frameworks and deep experience in cross platform application development such as React, React Native, Meteor
- Experience with iOS frameworks - UIKit, Core Foundation, Core Animation, Core Graphics, Autolayout, AVFoundation, SceneKit, GCD etc.
- In depth Understanding of Apple’s recommended design principles, interface guidelines and and best practices for coding
- Experience working with remote data via REST, JSON and Web Services
- Strong foundational knowledge on computer science principles
- Sound Agile planning and Design skills
- Demonstrated ability to lead and collaborate effectively across organizational boundaries.
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills, to drive collaboration and innovation.
- Experience and interest in guiding and leading team members of other teams

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Must Good to Have Details :
- Must have at least 1 year of experience on React Native along with architecture experience in Mobile Applications.
- Have strong knowledge of App UI design principles, patterns, and best practices
- Familiarity with native build tools, like XCode, Gradle, Android Studio IntelliJ, VsCode
- In-Depth Knowledge of React, React Native, TypeScript or JavaScript Redux, Hooks, ECMAScript (ES6, ES7 etc.), Node, NPM and iOS & Android Build systems
Must have :
- Understanding of REST APIs, the document request model, and offline storage and must have on React Native chart Library
- Working knowledge on Sending Notifications with APNs & FCM
- Experience working with Backend Web Services (like REST etc), Fetch API, and Axios and knowledge of Databases (Relational, Distributed etc.)
- Experience in integrating libraries like React Navigation, React Native, Firebase, Social Logins (Facebook, Google, Apple etc.), Push Notifications etc.
- Responsive layouts in both platforms in reactive native using Media Query & Flexbox
- Sound knowledge of Design Patterns like Creational, Structural, and Behavioral
Good to have :
- Working experience on third-party dependencies and debugging - dependency conflicts
- Must be able to integrate native code in react-native and expo Modules
- Able to generate builds for both IOS(.IPA) and Android (APK) Platforms and experience in hosting apps on respective Stores(AppStore, PlayStore).
- Professional Communication (written, verbal presenting)
- Open to learn and adapt to new technologies
- Go-getter, Result oriented Creative & Innovative approach
- Excellent Communication Skills
Experience: 1 – 2.5 years
Job Location: Chennai, Bangalore & Mumbai
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Proven working experience in Android Native development
- Excellent coding skills in Java or Kotlin or both.
- Should have knowledge in SQL and SQLite Database.
- Strong knowledge in User Interface designing using latest frameworks.
- Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices.
- Improving Application performance.
- Enterprise application development experience
- Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements.
- Experience with third-party libraries and APIs
- Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies
- Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency
Educational Requirements:
BE/B. Tech, BBA, MBA
General Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, on multiple projects concurrently.
- Track record of timelines, milestones and deliverable.
- Ability to interact effectively with executive level clients.
- Excellent oral/written communication skills. Effective analytical, problem-solving. interpersonal and time management skills.
- Ability to mitigate pressure and risk.
Responsibilities:
- Design and build advanced hybrid mobile applications using React Native
- Lead the application development effort by being the SPOC
- Build hybrid apps using React Native for Android/iOS
- Publish apps to corresponding App store/Play store
- Implement new technologies to maximize application performance and optimize load time
- Collaborate with the back-end developer to build the RESTful APIs
- Research on emerging technologies and trends
- Participate in the planning and design of future software and technical architectures
Qualifications
- 3+ years of hands on experience in the full life cycle of Hybrid mobile application development including publishing one or more apps to the play store & app store
- Must have developed Hybrid Mobile application using React. Hands on Working experience of React Native is a must.
- Experience developing back-end services preferably with NodeJS.
- Experience in developing apps on native Android/iOS platforms is a plus
- Experience in designing and working with n-tier architectures (UI, Business Logic Layer, Data Access Layer) along with some experience with service-oriented architectures (SOA)
- Strong skills in RESTful web services
- Experience with Agile methodologies would be helpful
Good to have skills:
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Should have a positive approach with an urge to learn new skills. Should be innovative and ready to probe into new areas of business. Should be open to learn new technologies. Should be ready to work in a team |
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Have a good talent and knowledge
- 4+ years of mobile software development (iOS & Android).
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- Deep understanding and proficiency in building mobile apps from scratch using at least one mobile language (Swift, Java, Objective-C, etc.). Experience with multiple platforms is preferred.
- Desire and ability to expand expertise into additional mobile languages.
- Expertise in designing testable software and building large scale, complex applications.
- Self-motivated with strong problem-solving skills.
- Passionate about writing clean, well organized, and production-ready code.
- A portfolio of Apps or SDKs already built and in the App Store and Google Play.
- Desire to build a larger in-house team and manage a group of developers over time.
- Some management experience preferred.
iOS Developer Responsibilities:
- Designing and building mobile applications for Apple’s iOS platform.
- Collaborating with the design team to define app features.
- Ensuring quality and performance of the application to specifications.
- Identifying potential problems and resolving application bottlenecks.
- Fixing application bugs before the final release.
- Publishing application on App Store.
- Maintaining the code and atomization of the application.
- Designing and implementing application updates.
EXPERIENCE
iOS Developer Requirements:
- BE, B Tech, ME, M Tech, MCA in Computer Science with 3-9 years of experience
- Proven experience as an app developer.
- Proficient in Objective-C/ Swift/ Cocoa Touch.
- Knowledge of iOS back-end services.
- Knowledge of Apple’s design principles and application interface guidelines.
- Proficient in code versioning tools including Mercurial, Git
- Ability to work with crash analytics, CI/CD etc regarding iOS development
- Familiarity with push notifications, APIs, and cloud messaging.
- Experience with continuous integration.
Y Media Labs is a creative technology company that helps brands re-imagine their customer experiences. Our mission is to export the Silicon Valley mindset to the rest of the world.
We create digital products with purpose that have a lasting impact on users' lives and clients' businesses. We are a team of dreamers and doers united by a simple idea: If we make a difference for your customers, we will make a difference for your business too. And it works. Since 2009, we have led early-stage startups and top-tier brands to "wow" their customers with best-in-class digital products and experiences. The Wall Street Journal calls us “YML is one of the most innovative companies in Silicon Valley.”
Through next-generation technologies and world-class design, we help brands like Apple, PayPal, L'Oreal, Home Depot, Kaiser Permanente, State Farm, First Republic Bank develop solutions that drive major business outcomes. Founded in 2009, Y Media Labs is headquartered in Silicon Valley with four offices worldwide including Atlanta, Indianapolis, Bangalore & Sao Paulo.
We came of age with the invention of the app store. We have mobile in our DNA. We create solutions across the digital ecosystem. Unlike agencies who are born desktop, we are deeply connected to how consumer perception has shifted thanks to the mobile lifestyle. We have
built and launched 207 products, delighted over 407 million users, built over 200+ apps, work with 30 Fortune 500 clients, been responsible for over 400 billion transactions through our work and generated over $200 billion in transactions for our clients, and been featured on the app store over 700+ times!
- Portfolio of our work can be found @ ymedialabs.com/work
- Live look into our engineering team @ medium.com/ymedialabs-innovation • Live look into our design team @ dribbble.com/ymedialabs
Our team in Bangalore is close to 250 strong, and we are growing in a variety of ways. Our goals include a culture of excellence and we are looking to transform the team to be one of the best tech teams in Bangalore.
We are looking to hire Engineering Manager for our team in Bangalore. If you are excited about building products that will be used by millions of consumers worldwide, building products for brands that you can be proud to show to your family and friends - you need to join us!
Responsibilities:
- Lead and coach a group of engineers in delivering scalable, flexible and secure features to our customers
- Leading engineering teams composed of backend, frontend, iOS, Android developers and QA.
- Deep dive into work of your team, review the code submitted by your team, and resolve the root cause of problems
- Coach your team members how to increase the quality of their code based on real examples
- Involve in hiring for your teams
- Drive a continuous improvement process - introduce new tools & automations based on real data analysis
- Represent the team to engineering groups internally, to executive leaders in various functional groups within YML, to current and future customers, and to our partner organizations.
- Build a diverse team while fostering a collaborative and inclusive environment.
- Project and Program management
- Collaborate with Product/Project Managers to plan, implement and deliver tasks and modules on a timely basis with best practices and adherence to SOPs.
- Manage the development pipeline to deliver features on schedule while maintaining high bar for quality.
- Closely Interact with other functions such as PM/Product, Design, UI/UX, Architecture, QA, and deliver planned features
- Deliver Web, Android and iOS applications with integration to backend services deployed on the cloud with high quality and responsiveness.
- Create strong practices around test driven development, automating delivery of apps to the marketplace with strong CI/CD practices.
- Play the role of an unblocker in a tight scrum environment.
- Should be able to help other developers with challenges, problem solving, and help achieve milestones as per plan.
- Prioritize to manage ad-hoc requests in parallel with ongoing projects.
- Hands on with programming with 50%+ of bandwidth going into modules owned.
Requirements:
- A highly talented developer with 10+ years of hands-on experience.
- Primarily in web application development experience using, JAVA, Angular, ReactJS, Python, GO.
- Working with MVVM, MVP, MVC patterns.
- Additional Mobile development experience Android, Kotlin, iOS, Swift, Objective C will be a bonus.
- Must have at least 3+ years of experience in an engineering management role, and a clear record of success prior to that as a senior/staff engineer.
- Must be compelling and clear communicator, able to represent your team to internal and external audiences with differing levels of technical fluency.
- Ability to handle multiple competing priorities/projects in a fast-paced environment.
- Good Analytical, Problem solving and Debugging skills.
- Hands on experience in Designing, Coding and release management.
- Continuously increasing your team's work quality & performance.
- Experience with writing and maintaining unit-tests, functional tests, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Ability to think from a product mindset.
- B. Tech/M. Tech/MCA (IT/Computer Science).
Nice to Have:
- Hands-on cloud development experience
KeepTruckin is on a mission to modernize the trucking industry. With the leading fleet management platform, we are bringing trucks online and fundamentally changing the way freight is moved on our roads.We see our hard work rewarded in tangible ways every day and we believe that intelligence is most powerful when paired with humility. We're motivated by the opportunity to impact and improve every facet of a trillion-dollar industry that touches everyone's lives. KeepTruckin is proud to be a Forbes Cloud 100 company, a 2020 Career-Launching Company by Wealthfront and named a Forbes Best Startup Employer 2020.
About the Role:
As one of our first mobile engineers in Bangalore, this is a great opportunity to make a significant impact in designing and building our new KeepTruckin Fleet Manager iOS app and as well as grow by working directly with experienced technology professionals with backgrounds from Silicon Valley companies like Google, Twitter, Facebook and Uber (to name a few). We are looking for candidates who have a familiarity with Objective-C and Swift, and a good understanding of system architectures (mvc, mvvm, redux) and a forward thinking mindset aimed at high readability (declarative) code, as well as identifying problems or bottlenecks before they become issues.
What You'll Do:
Develop from scratch our new iOS KeepTruckin Fleet Manager AppWork with product team to refine feature specs, and work with cross functional teams like IoT, Embedded, Data Science/ML, Computer Vision & Motion teams to create fluid user experiences with interactive visualization for a multitude of data from these different teamsCommunicate with backend engineers about API requirements or refinements, and engage with the senior engineers for mentorship to learn & grow in your areas of interest. Analyze our user's data to identify bugs, and help support team to diagnose user problems Be able to work as part of a small, tightly knit team
What We're Looking For:
2-4 years of experience working on iOS apps. Proficiency in Objective-C, Swift, Storyboards, XIBs, and programmatic view layouts and transitionsAn understanding of Apple UI/UX and application design paradigmsAn appreciation and understanding of automated app testing. Knowledge or interest in commercial vehicles/trucking is a plus!Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is one of KeepTruckin's core values.
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