Engineering Manager - React Native - Remote Eligible

Engineering Manager - React Native

Fliff unpacks sports gaming into social, free-to-play games for all types of sports fans. We've built a social sports gaming experience that allows users to compete for leaderboard positioning, to achieve badges and build their status within the game. We are pioneering play-for-fun sports gaming, with our flagship social sportsbook experience that includes sweepstakes promotions and loyalty rewards. We provide sports fans with fun, engaging, and free-to-play alternatives to real money gaming.

Fliff is seeking an experienced and hands-on Engineering Manager with deep expertise in React Native to lead a team of 4–8 engineers building the next generation of our Fantasy platform. You'll balance people management, technical leadership, and hands-on coding to ensure delivery of scalable, performant, and engaging features across React Native mobile apps and mobile web. We're looking for someone who can guide a high-performing team, foster a strong engineering culture, and collaborate closely with product and design.

What You'll Do:

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers, providing regular feedback and support in their development.
• Stay hands-on by contributing to the codebase (at least 30–40%) and setting quality standards.
• Guide architecture decisions and ensure frontend codebases are scalable, testable, and well-documented.
• Ability to break down complex, real-time data challenges into manageable parts and deliver effective, performant solutions.
• Ensuring accuracy in data, UI responsiveness, and code quality to avoid costly mistakes, especially in real-time applications.
• Partner with product and design to scope, prioritize, and deliver features that delight users.
• Own delivery timelines and resource planning to ensure smooth execution across sprints.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Drive hiring, onboarding, and performance management for your team.

What We're Looking For:

• 6+ years of frontend engineering experience with a focus on React Native and TypeScript 5.0+.
• 2+ years of experience managing and mentoring engineers or leading technical teams.
• Strong command of React fundamentals: functional components, hooks, context, and advanced patterns.
• Deep understanding of state management tools like Redux (with middleware like Thunk/Saga) and Context API.
• Experience with performance optimization, code splitting, lazy loading, and responsive UI design.
• Ability to work with backend APIs (REST and WebSocket) and integrate data into complex UIs.
• Comfortable with debugging tools and testing frameworks (Jest, React Testing Library).
• Heavy usage of analytic tools (DataDog, MixPanel, Google Analytics, etc).
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate across disciplines.
• Prior experience working in a high-growth startup, gaming, or real-time application environment preferred.

Benefits:

• The annual salary for this role ranges from $209,000 to $220,000 depending on experience and background.
• Unlimited/ Flexible Time Off: Flexible vacation policy.
• Health benefits with 100% paid premiums* for medical, dental, and vision plans for employees and dependents, plus on-demand healthcare concierge.
• Pre-tax savings plans for healthcare, with up to a $500 annual employer contribution to the HSA (if enrolled in the HSA medical plan).
• Employee-sponsored 401(k) to help reach your financial goals.
• Fully remote work environment.
• Generous parental leave.
• Professional development opportunities in a dynamic, global setting.

Perks:

• Work Remotely.
• $500 work-from-home stipend + Equipment & Accessories.
• Opportunity for professional development in a dynamic, global setting.
• A supportive, collaborative, and knowledge-driven workplace.
• An engaging and challenging role with the freedom to innovate and develop effective solutions.