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# Senior Engineering Manager, Mobile at Mudflap

- **Company:** Mudflap
- **Location:** Palo Alto, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-07-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mudflap/13b8e780-5de5-4450-bee9-33f7e821a6bb

## Job description

At Mudflap, we're modernizing the $1 trillion trucking industry, the backbone of the U.S. economy. By helping over 100,000 underserved small businesses save over $1 billion on fuel, Mudflap has quickly grown into a profitable fintech platform that processes billions in annual payment volume.

As our Senior Mobile Engineering Manager, you'll lead the evolution of mobile engineering at Mudflap. You'll oversee a growing mobile organization while helping define how mobile engineers partner with cross-functional product teams as we evolve toward a product-pod model. Beyond leading teams, you'll shape our long-term mobile architecture, establish engineering best practices, and build the technical foundation for a rapidly expanding suite of products serving the trucking industry.

This role requires exceptional engineering leadership, deep mobile expertise, and a strong point of view on modern software development—including how AI and agentic workflows can improve engineering productivity, quality, and developer experience.

Work Location: This role is based in Palo Alto and involves a hybrid work approach, balancing in-office collaboration with the ability to work remotely.

Expectations (In this role, you will):

- Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing mobile engineering organization of 10+ engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and customer obsession.
- Drive the delivery of high-quality mobile experiences for consumer fintech and marketplace products, balancing near-term roadmap execution with long-term platform investments.
- Execute Mudflap's mobile engineering strategy, shaping our architecture, platform direction, and technical standards as the business and product portfolio continue to grow.
- Lead the evolution of our mobile organization as we expand toward a product-pod operating model while maintaining a strong centralized mobile engineering discipline.
- Own our mobile architecture strategy, making thoughtful decisions across native, cross-platform, and hybrid approaches that balance developer productivity, platform consistency, performance, and customer experience.
- Partner closely with Product and Engineering leaders across backend, infrastructure, and web to define technical vision, organizational structure, roadmap priorities, and strategic investments that enable a cohesive mobile platform.
- Champion engineering excellence by driving best practices across code quality, testing, CI/CD, observability, and AI-assisted, agentic software development.

Experience (What we look for):

- 5+ years of engineering management experience leading high-performing mobile engineering teams, ideally with 5–10 direct reports.
- Strong mobile engineering background with deep experience across native and cross-platform frameworks, along with the ability to evaluate emerging mobile technologies and make the right call for the team's stage.
- Experience defining and evolving mobile architecture at scale, including evaluating tradeoffs between native and cross-platform approaches.
- Background building consumer mobile products, ideally in fintech, marketplaces, or other high-growth technology companies.
- Proven success scaling engineering organizations through periods of technical and organizational change in both startup and larger company environments.
- Strong technical leadership with a track record of delivering complex products while balancing technical excellence with pragmatic business outcomes.
- Experience introducing modern engineering practices, including AI-assisted development, automation, and agentic workflows that improve developer productivity and software quality.
- Excellent communication, systems thinking, and cross-functional collaboration skills, with the ability to influence Product, Design, Data, and Engineering leaders.
- Passion for coaching engineers, building high-performing teams, and advocating for mobile-specific considerations such as performance, offline capabilities, and network efficiency.

Perks and Benefits (What we offer):

- Competitive salary and equity in a high-growth startup
- Multiple health benefit options
- Responsible Time Off
- 401(k) matching
- Opportunities and support for major career growth
- Annual Company offsite event (Mudfest!)

The salary range for this role is $250,000 - $300,000. This information reflects a base salary range for this position based on current market data, which may be subject to change as new market data becomes available. The candidate's skills, experience, and other relevant factors will determine the exact compensation.

Company Overview (Who we are): Mudflap is on a mission to transform the trucking and logistics industry by leveling the playing field for owner operators and small fleets. Backed by top-tier venture investors, including QED, Matrix Partners, Commerce Ventures, NFX, and 500 Startups and included in the Forbes Fintech 50 list, Mudflap offers fleet fuel management solutions. Our core team hails from Disney, Uber, Procore, DoorDash, Google, Meta, Capital One, Affirm and Brex.

Here are the core values that we believe in and look for in new teammates:

- Be Customer Obsessed: We deeply understand customer needs and put our customers at the center of everything we do
- Make it Count: Act like an owner by focusing on the impact of your work
- Find a Way: Be a creative problem solver who pushes past roadblocks to win for our customers and our teammates
- Sweat the Details: We keep our standards high and achieve them by paying attention to every detail
- Be Curious: Use a growth mindset to question assumptions, take calculated risks and stretch the boundaries of what’s possible

## About Mudflap

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Mudflap provides a mobile app and fuel card that gives truck drivers and fleets instant discounts on diesel at thousands of truck stops across the United States.
- **Entity Type**: Private (venture-backed, Series B)
- **Headquarters**: Palo Alto, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2020 (company site states "Since 2020"; PitchBook lists 2016 as founding year – conflicting reports)
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Transportation / Trucking / Railroad; logistics and fuel payments.
- **Target customers**: Owner-operators, small to mid-size fleets (B2B), and individual truck drivers (B2C). Also serves truck stop merchants.
- **Mission or purpose**: Help truckers save on fuel costs through deep discounts and a modern, easy-to-use platform, especially during volatile fuel price and freight rate environments [mudflapinc.com](https://www.mudflapinc.com/).

## Products & Services
- **Mudflap App**: Free mobile app (iOS/Android) that provides instant diesel discounts at 3,600+ in-network truck stops. Includes truck-safe GPS navigation. Drivers can use their existing debit or credit card to save.
- **Mudflap Card (Visa Fleet Card)**: A physical and virtual Visa card issued by Celtic Bank or Community Federal Savings Bank. Offers discounts at 70,000+ fuel stops nationwide, plus credit terms, spend controls, and fraud prevention for fleets. Requires credit approval.
- **Merchant Dashboard**: A platform for truck stop operators to manage their participation in the Mudflap discount network.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company).
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$50 million** (Series B led by QED and 9Yards Capital in August 2022). Over **$1 billion saved** by Mudflap drivers. More than **515,000 drivers** use the platform.
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: QED, 9Yards Capital, Matrix Partners, Commerce Ventures, Ascend Vietnam Ventures. Issuing banks: Celtic Bank, Community Federal Savings Bank. Visa network partner.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew ~10% year-over-year (LinkedIn reports 125 employees; PitchBook reports 157 – conflicting data). Active job postings increased 220% year-over-year (16 open roles). Monthly web traffic up 43%. The network expanded to 70,000+ fuel stops for the Mudflap Card.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Network depth**: Exclusive partnerships with independent truck stops and regional groups, not just major chains, enabling discounts up to $1.00/gallon.
- **Dual approach**: App for instant savings without a card, plus a Visa fleet card for credit and broader acceptance – covers both owner-operators and fleets.
- **Customer loyalty**: 94% of owner-operators and fleets would recommend Mudflap (2023 customer satisfaction survey).
- **Tech stack**: Modern SaaS/Fintech infrastructure (Snowflake, Stripe, Braze, dbt, etc.) allowing rapid iteration and data-driven discount optimization.

## Strategic Focus
- **Card adoption & fraud prevention**: Expanding the Mudflap Card program with credit terms, spend controls, and fraud detection to capture fleet customers.
- **Network growth**: Adding more truck stops and fuel locations to increase discount density.
- **Product expansion**: Building out risk, payments, and growth teams (evidenced by open roles for Senior PMs in Risk, Payments, and Growth).
- **Data & personalization**: Using data science to tailor discounts and improve driver experience.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first culture**: 100% remote roles, "Responsible Time Off" (unlimited PTO), work-from-home stipend, and annual company offsite ("Mudfest") to build connection [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/mudflap/faq/workplace-perception).
- **Benefits**: Health coverage, 401(k) match, equity, and equipment support.
- **Engineering culture**: Modern tech stack, ownership of ambiguous problems, fast iteration in a real-world marketplace with tangible impact on truckers’ livelihoods.
- **Considerations**: 24/7 support model can lead to irregular hours and potential burnout. Frequent leadership and strategy shifts create ambiguity. Best suited for resilient self-starters who thrive in a high-ownership, customer-obsessed environment.

## Sources
1. [mudflapinc.com](https://www.mudflapinc.com/)
2. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/mudflap)
3. [pitchbook.com](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/178717-33)
4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/mudflap/faq/workplace-perception)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mudflap)

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