Senior Engineering Manager, Mobile Capture + SDK Platform Job at HOVER (San Francisco/New York)

Job Description

Hover is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead our Capture team, a critical group at the center of our 3D property scanning platform. The Capture team owns two core experiences that power every scan: The guided mobile capture workflow used by customers to scan properties and collect high-quality data for our 3D reconstruction pipeline. Our external Capture SDK, which enables enterprise customers to embed Hover’s capture technology directly inside their own iOS and Android applications.

Job Responsibility

Lead and scale a high-impact mobile engineering team responsible for both Hover’s end-user capture experience and our enterprise Capture SDK across iOS and Android
Own the capture experience end-to-end, partnering closely with Product and Design to deliver an intuitive, guided scanning workflow
Lead the evolution of Hover’s external Capture SDK platform, establishing strong practices for API lifecycle management, versioning, documentation, and release processes
Raise the reliability bar across the capture system by improving observability, crash-free performance, upload reliability, and system stability
Build a team culture that ships by coaching engineers and tech leads, creating clarity around priorities and tradeoffs

Requirements

10+ years of engineering experience, including at least 4+ years managing engineers and leading product-focused teams
Deep experience building and delivering native mobile applications (iOS and/or Android) at production scale
Experience shipping complex user-facing workflows that involve real-time feedback or sensor-driven interactions (such as camera, scanning, AR, mapping, or media experiences)
Experience building or maintaining a developer platform or SDK, including API lifecycle management, documentation, and release discipline
Strong cross-functional leadership skills with the ability to align Product, Design, QA, Support, and Customer teams
A track record of improving reliability, quality, and performance in systems that operate at scale

Nice to have

Experience working with camera pipelines, real-time processing, AR frameworks, SLAM, or computer vision–adjacent systems
Experience supporting enterprise customers and SDK integrations
Familiarity working in mixed technology stacks (native mobile and React Native)
Experience designing robust upload or synchronization systems that handle offline use, poor connectivity, and background transfers

What we offer

Competitive salary and meaningful equity in a fast-growing company
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and dependents
Unlimited and flexible vacation policy
Generous paid parental and new child bonding leave
Mandatory Self-Care Days
Recurring fitness classes, meditation/ mindfulness tools, virtual therapy, and family planning assistance
Encouraged continued education and will help cover the cost of management training, conferences, workshops, or certifications

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