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Powered by a vibrant community of 165 million members, Poshmark brings real people and taste to shopping through a social experience shaped by shared discovery. Buying and selling fashion feels simple, joyful, and personal, while every item tells its own story. Poshmark empowers sellers to grow meaningful businesses, keeps fashion in circulation longer, and gives shoppers access to unique and trusted finds, from everyday pieces to one-of-a-kind vintage and luxury.\nWe are looking for an Engineering Manager who is passionate about building high-performing\nteams, scaling mission-critical platforms, and driving meaningful product impact.\nIn this role, you won’t just manage delivery schedules-you will own technical direction, partner\nclosely with Product, and foster a team culture grounded in candor, curiosity, and high\nengineering standards.\nYou are someone who can zoom out to align technical roadmaps with\nbusiness strategy, then zoom in to discuss architectural tradeoffs, system reliability, and API\nboundaries with your senior engineers. If you thrive on genuine ownership, love solving complex marketplace challenges, and prefer grounded, pragmatic engineering over bureaucratic buzzwords, we would love to talk to you.\nWhat You’ll Do\nLead and Grow a High-Caliber Team: Hire, mentor, and coach a team of distributed\nsoftware engineers across varying levels of seniority, fostering a culture of continuous\nlearning, psychological safety, and technical excellence.\nDrive Grounded Technical Direction: Partner with Staff/Principal engineers to evaluate\narchitecture tradeoffs, manage technical debt, and ensure systems are built for long-term\nscalability, resilience, and operational health.\nOwn Delivery and Outcomes: Take full ownership of your team’s execution-from\nscoping and estimation to deployment, monitoring, and retrospectives. Ensure\ncommitments are met without sacrificing quality.\nCollaborate Closely with Product: Act as an authentic product partner. Deeply\nunderstand Poshmark’s buyer and seller journeys, asking the tough questions that\nbridge technical feasibility with user and business impact.\nChampion Operational Rigor: Foster strong operational practices, including\ncomprehensive logging, observability, edge-case analysis, state management, and\nblameless post-mortems when things go wrong.\nWhat We Look For\nDemonstrated Leadership Ownership: 3+ years of experience directly managing\nsoftware engineering teams, with a track record of building and shipping\nproduction-grade systems at consumer scale.\nCredible Technical Foundation: A strong technical background as an IC (or equivalent\nhands-on experience) with the ability to reason deeply through distributed systems, API\ndesign, scalability bottlenecks, and data synchronization. You don’t need to write\nproduction code daily, but you must be able to critically evaluate technical solutions.\nClear, Pragmatic Communication: Exceptional ability to explain complex technical and\norganizational concepts plainly and directly. You communicate with specifics, value\nclarity over jargon, and encourage open dialogue across teams.\nDeep Product Curiosity: Genuine excitement about social commerce, marketplaces,\nand user experience. You naturally probe beyond engineering requirements to\nunderstand why a feature matters to our community.\nCandor and Humility: A leadership philosophy built on honesty and coachability. You\nare open about past failures, share what you learned, and build an environment where\nengineers feel safe admitting what they don’t know.\nStrategic Level Calibration: Strong instincts for talent density-knowing how to\nevaluate, develop, and stretch engineers at every stage of their careers (from\nearly-career engineers to Staff+ leaders).\nWhy You’ll Love Working Here\nHigh-Impact Work: Your team's code directly impacts millions of active buyers and\nsellers every day.\nAuthentic Culture: We value genuine connection, low ego, and pragmatic\nproblem-solving over rigid corporate hierarchy.\nHolistic Growth: You’ll have direct exposure to executive leadership, product strategy,\nand architectural decisions shaping the future of circular fashion and social commerce.\nQualifications & Requirements\nPeople Management: 5+ years directly managing engineering teams, owning hiring,\nperformance, coaching, and delivery.\nEngineering Foundation: 8+ years of total software engineering 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