Mobile App Engineering Manager

This is a Full Time Job

US Remote

The Opportunity

You'll have the opportunity to take ownership in areas that are sure to shore-up our streaming experiences and capabilities. We have a lot of features that have quickly taken to the market that we need to add structure and scalability to. We also have a broad vision of new innovative projects to take the Angel experience to new heights.

This is a high-ownership, high-impact opportunity where you'll add vision, strategy, and execution for how millions of fans discover, watch, and engage with Angel's ever growing library of stories.

Why Join Angel
• Massive Impact: Your work will shape how audiences experience the stories they love-and help amplify light around the globe.
• Extreme Ownership: We are a team of owners and entrepreneurs. This is your chance to operate like a startup founder inside a fast-scaling media company.
• Future of Streaming: Help build a streaming platform that competes with giants-without playing by their rules.

What You'll Do

Own and elevate the Angel Studios mobile app experience end-to-end-and push it beyond what streaming apps do today.

As the lead React Native Engineer and Mobile App Owner, you will be the technical and product-driving force behind our iOS and Android apps. You'll lead from the front-spending your time building and shipping experiences, and time guiding the team, shaping team direction, and ensuring excellence.

You will:
• Own the mobile experience end-to-end – Take full ownership of the Angel Studios mobile app, ensuring a world-class streaming experience across discovery, playback, and user engagement.
• Drive streaming excellence at scale – Deliver a seamless, high-quality playback experience with fast startup times, minimal buffering, adaptive streaming, and resilient offline playback.
• Build a best-in-class discovery and engagement platform – Design and implement intuitive browsing, search, recommendations, and personalized content experiences that rival top-tier streaming platforms.
• Architect for performance and reliability – Design scalable, maintainable React Native (Expo TypeScript) architecture that performs across a wide range of devices and network conditions.
• Leverage modern mobile delivery systems – Own and optimize Expo-based workflows, including over-the-air (OTA) updates, CI/CD pipelines, and release strategies to ship quickly and safely.
• Ship fast and iterate constantly – Design and build features like downloads, offline mode, notifications, and membership flows through rapid experimentation and continuous iteration.
• Solve complex mobile challenges – Tackle issues across video playback, background downloads, offline sync, push notifications, and app lifecycle management.
• Measure and improve what matters
Define and track key metrics (startup time, buffering rate, crash-free sessions, engagement, retention) and use data to drive decisions.
• Lead through code and influence – Provide architectural direction, conduct high-quality code reviews, and actively mentor engineers while remaining deeply hands-on.
• Multiply team effectiveness – Improve developer experience through better tooling, testing, CI/CD, and shared patterns.

What Success Looks Like
• The Angel Studios mobile app is recognized as a top-tier streaming experience-fast, reliable, and delightful.
• Streaming playback is smooth, resilient, and high quality across devices and network conditions.
• Discovery and recommendations feel personalized, intuitive, and engaging.
• Offline viewing and downloads are seamless and dependable.
• Your architecture enables rapid feature development without sacrificing quality.
• The team ships frequently and confidently using OTA updates and modern CI/CD workflows.
• Engineers are more productive because of the systems, patterns, and guidance you provide.
• You are seen as the clear technical owner of the mobile platform, with strong trust across product and leadership.

What You'll Need
• Builder mindset with product ownership – You think like an owner, not just an implementer-driving both technical and product outcomes.
• Deep React Native expertise – Strong experience building and scaling production mobile apps using React Native and TypeScript.
• Strong mobile architecture skills – Ability to design systems that balance performance, scalability, and developer experience.
• Hands-on leadership – Comfort leading while staying deeply involved in the code
• Experience with modern mobile tooling – Familiarity with Expo, OTA updates, mobile CI/CD pipelines, and release strategies.
• Streaming/media experience (or similar complexity) – Understanding of video playback, buffering, caching, or other performance-critical systems is highly valuable.
• Performance and reliability focus – You care deeply about app responsiveness, crash rates, and user experience details.
• Experiment-driven mindset – Experience defining and using AB Tests and metrics to guide product and engineering decisions.
• Strong collaboration and communication – Ability to align cross-functional teams and clearly communicate tradeoffs and direction.
• Ownership and initiative – You proactively identify problems and drive solutions end-to-end.
• Adaptability and speed – Comfort working in fast-moving environments with evolving priorities.
• Mentorship and team development – You elevate others through feedback, coaching, and shared standards.

Required Experience
• 10–15 years of software engineering experience
• 5–8 years building mobile applications
• 4 years of React Native experience in production environments
• Strong experience with TypeScript and modern frontend architecture
• Proven track record of owning and shipping complex consumer-facing apps
• Experience working on apps with real users at scale

Preferred Experience
• Experience with Expo and OTA update systems
• Experience building streaming or media-heavy applications
• Experience implementing push notifications and engagement systems
• Familiarity with recommendation systems or personalization
• Experience with subscription/membership flows (in-app purchases, payments, auth)
• Experience with an

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