About Pinterest:
Millions of people across the world come to Pinterest to find new ideas every day. It’s where they get inspiration, dream about new possibilities and plan for what matters most. Our mission is to help those people find their inspiration and create a life they love. In your role, you’ll be challenged to take on work that upholds this mission and pushes Pinterest forward. You’ll grow as a person and leader in your field, all the while helping Pinners make their lives better in the positive corner of the internet.
Creating a life you love also means finding a career that celebrates the unique perspectives and experiences that you bring. As you read through the expectations of the position, consider how your skills and experiences may complement the responsibilities of the role. We encourage you to think through your relevant and transferable skills from prior experiences.
Our new progressive work model is called PinFlex, a term that’s uniquely Pinterest to describe our flexible approach to living and working. Visit our PinFlex landing page to learn more.
The “Discovery Tooling” team owns a web based developer tooling ecosystem for all backend engineers working on Pinterest consumer apps like home feed, search, related pins etc.
The tooling ecosystem built by the team will seek to promote ease of development, reliability, debugging and visibility for the entire backend serving stack owned within the team’s parent group - including information retrieval services, recommendation/search platform & services amongst other things.
As an Engineering Manager for the team, you will help build the team, set and deliver on a vision/roadmap through helping mentor and guide the professional/technical development of team members.
What you’ll do:
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Build and lead a team of full stack engineers.
- The team will initially consist of 4 ICs (2 IC15’s, 2 IC14’s) with potential to grow further.
- In this role, you will do roadmap planning twice a year (Pinterest plans on a 6-month basis), run 2-week sprints, and report progress to stakeholders on a monthly basis.
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Provide a vision to the team, drive technical excellence, and partner with key stakeholders to prioritize the team's roadmap. The team partners with peer teams in the infra org and cross-functional product teams (homefeed, search etc) to identify developer enabling capabilities the team can deliver to allow product teams to build with ease. This EM should have enough of a technical base to understand technical problems and solutions to address these problems.
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Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of the members of the team. This includes hiring top talent and providing feedback to existing team members to accelerate their growth. Tactically this EM is expected to run weekly 1:1s with their team and participate in company-wide review processes like mid and year-end reviews.
What we’re looking for:
- Our ideal candidate is a strong people leader with strong technical skills in full stack technologies. The candidate should have demonstrated the following in their previous roles.
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Driving Results - We expect this EM to make a roadmap and drive results with their team. This includes planning, technical breakdowns, tracking and reporting on progress, mitigating risks, etc.
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Plans and Aligns - We expect this EM to generate a roadmap which will involve planning across different teams. This EM should be able to reconcile priorities of their team with priorities of other teams to develop plans with consensus.
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Builds Effective Teams - We expect this EM to maintain and improve overall org health. This includes hiring when there is open headcount, nurturing and growing talent, and identifying and remedying underperformance.
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Technical Knowledge - This is a technical role. We do not expect this EM to code (its a plus if the candidate is eager to get their hands in implementation work) but do expect this EM to be comfortable discussing technical topics with engineers (full stack - spanning web and backend technologies), review and provide feedback on technical design and architecture documents, and to hold a high bar for engineering execution.
Relocation Statement:
- This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.
In-Office Requirement Statement:
- We let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means we're not always working in an office, but we continue to gather for key moments of collaboration and connection.
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Our Commitment to Diversity:
Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require a medical or religious accommodation during the job application process, please complete
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