Release Engineer

Solvd is an AI-first advisory and digital engineering firm delivering measurable business impact through strategic digital transformation. Taking an AI-first approach, we bridge the critical gap between experimentation and real ROI, weaving artificial intelligence into everything we do and helping clients at all stages accelerate AI integration into each process layer. Our mission is to empower passionate people to thrive in the era of AI while maintaining rigorous ethical AI standards. We’re supported by a global team with offices in the USA, Poland, Ukraine and Georgia. 

We're on the lookout for a Release Engineer to join our team working on a social news aggregation platform.

Responsibilities::

• Manage all aspects of the internal beta and production app release process.
• Lead operations for Production iOS and Android releases on a rotational basis.
• Communicate all key release milestones, requirements and changes to the organization.
• Manage cross-functional relationships and ensure there is healthy communication among Engineering, QA and Release teams.
• Write operational runbooks and documentation to support the Release team as needed.
• Research new technologies and release management methodologies for application in internal tooling improvements.
• Continuously assess risk factors to our Production users and actively drive mitigation strategies.
• Manage risk and mitigate issues that could affect release reliability and stability.
• Conduct release readiness reviews, launch communications for releases and post-mortem meetings as required.
• Investigate, escalate and drive solutions for emergent or complex technical issues.
• Provide contextual judgement and use data to drive decisions.
• Provide after-hours support as necessary.
• Monitor and provide regular status reports to leadership and the organization.
• Measure, monitor and report on key release metrics weekly and ad-hoc as needed.

Requirements::

• 5+ years in a technical capacity with 2+ years in release management or TPM capacity.
• Experience managing mobile application releases and a deep understanding of release management principles.
• Experience working cross-functionally with globally distributed teams that have differing business priorities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to influence and convey messages to a wide range of stakeholders.
• Strong analytical skills and experience utilizing tools to visualize trends and key metric monitoring.
• Experience making critical decisions for complex technical issues in real time, considering timelines and urgency.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to execute.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as Bitrise, Jenkins, Fastlane, CircleCI or equivalent tools.
• Experience working with App Store Connect and Google PlayStore Console.
• BA/BS in computer science or any related technical field (or equivalent work experience).
• Experience enabling change in a high velocity environment.
• Basic knowledge of writing shell scripts, web development and databases is preferred.

Tech stack: :

• Cloud: AWS.
• CI/CD: Bitrise, Buildkite.
• Automations: Fastlane, Slack API, Play Store API, Jira API.
• Mobile Crash Observability: Crashlytics + BigQuery.
• Backend: Python.
• Infra: k8s.