[Wattpad] Engineering Manager

We are hiring an Engineering Manager for our Platform Engineering team to lead the design, development, and maintenance of the backend platforms that underpin Wattpad's social, notifications, subscriptions, and coin economy features. This is a highly collaborative team that works closely with Product, Marketing, Business, and other engineering teams who build upon these platforms to deliver features to our end users. As Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for both the technical direction of the team and the growth and development of the engineers within it.

What You'll Do:

• Lead and support a team of engineers, overseeing performance management, career growth, and general team administration including rituals and meetings
• Contribute to planning and determining the technical roadmap by understanding and aligning business and engineering goals
• Spearhead and participate in technical design and planning sessions
• Provide technical guidance and feedback on documentation, designs, and code
• Work with Product and other teams during requirements gathering and solutioning
• Coordinate resourcing on projects, provide time estimates, and communicate blockers and issues
• Maintain high quality standards and foster a culture of long-term thinking and innovation
• Play an active role in hiring across the team
• Mentor and coach team members in both technical and soft skills relevant to their roles

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in software development with at least 3 years managing a team of 3 or more engineers including those at the Senior level or higher
• Significant experience designing and building backend distributed systems, including writing and critiquing design and technical plan documentation with diagrams
• Majority experience in backend development with substantial hands-on experience in API, application, and systems design and building
• Expert level experience developing on Unix-based platforms
• Experience with one or more compiled languages such as C++, Java, Golang, or Rust
• Strong technical background with the ability to make well informed decisions and translate complex technical concepts to various audiences
• Comfortable working with ambiguity and collaborating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field

Nice To Haves:

• Experience in a Staff, Principal Engineer, or Architect position
• AWS Cloud experience
• Experience with OpenAPI, gRPC, or Protobuf
• Experience with Golang
• Experience with Docker, containerization, or Kubernetes