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Engineering Manager, Mobile Enablement - Mercari

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Engineering Manager, Mobile Enablement

  • Employment Status: Full-time
  • Work Hours: Full Flextime (no core time)
  • Office: Roppongi

Note: This position does not have a Japanese job description.

About

The Mobile Enablement team is a core pillar of Engineering Enablement, responsible for enabling group-wide mobile ecosystems across iOS and Android. The team drives mobile libraries, frameworks, standards, CI/CD infrastructure, release management, and the adoption of modern development practices, including AI-assisted and agentic workflows. The mission is to make mobile development seamless, automated, and scalable, allowing product engineering teams to focus on delivering value to users.

Organization / Team Mission

  • Passion For The Product
  • Grow Together
  • Solve Through Mechanisms
  • Collaborate Openly

For more on the engineering culture, see here.

Position Summary

As Engineering Manager for Mobile Enablement:

  • Lead a team of senior and principal engineers across iOS and Android.
  • Partner closely with a dedicated Platform Product Manager.
  • Own team composition, execution models, and ensure measurable outcomes for product engineering teams.
  • Focus on organizational health, technical strategy, and execution.

Work Responsibilities

  • Team Leadership & People Management:
    Build an environment for high-performing engineers to operate autonomously, collaborate, and translate expertise into scalable mechanisms.

  • Technical Strategy & Roadmap:
    Define and drive the technical vision around CI/CD, release management, mobile frameworks, and adoption of AI/agentic workflows.

  • Execution & Delivery:
    Deliver outcome-first, customer-centric initiatives, structuring work around developer journeys and operating team engagement models such as InnerSource and customer enabling.

  • Operational Excellence:
    Ensure reliability and performance of mobile CI/CD, release management, libraries, and tooling; define and monitor success metrics.

  • Cross-functional Collaboration:
    Work closely with Product Management and other Engineering Enablement pillars to align mobile capabilities with business needs and drive adoption.

Unique Challenges

  • Leading Deep Specialists in Ambiguity:
    Guide a team of senior/principal-level engineers, enabling impact and fostering growth in a dynamic environment.

  • Driving Impact Through Influence:
    Adoption of your team's work depends on alignment and trust, not direct authority; focus on influencing and building scalable mechanisms.

  • Navigating Agentic Shift & Stability:
    Maintain operational reliability in release management and CI/CD while investing in modernization and agentic capabilities.

Qualifications

Required

  • Alignment with the mission and values.
  • Experience in managing or leading engineering teams in a platform/enablement/infrastructure context (including hiring, career development).
  • Deep credibility in mobile (iOS, Android, or both), spanning build systems, CI/CD, frameworks, and releases.
  • Proven track record of end-to-end ownership, from problem definition to measurement.
  • Ability to align teams and drive adoption without direct authority.
  • Strong communication skills in multicultural and multilingual environments.

Preferred

  • Experience with InnerSource/community-driven engineering.
  • Familiarity with agentic workflows, AI-assisted coding, or agent interfaces (CLIs, MCPs, Skills).
  • Experience in both platform and product engineering orgs.
  • Background with Bazel, monorepo management, or large-scale mobile CI/CD optimization.
  • Experience in enablement or developer experience orgs.

Languages

  • Japanese: Independent (CEFR B2) Preferred
  • English: Independent (CEFR B2)

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Recruiting Process

  • Application screening
  • Skill assessment (HackerRank, GitHub, etc.)
  • Interviews (number may vary by position)
  • Reference checks (final interview stage)
  • Offer

More detail about the recruiting process here.

Equal Opportunity Hiring

The organization is committed to inclusion and diversity, ensuring opportunities regardless of age, gender, race, religion, disability, or other factors. See the I&D statement for more.

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