Engineering Manager for API

The API team is responsible for ensuring our first party clients (Android, iOS, and Web) have a stable API to develop on top of. Our customers are Pinterest developers who want to build product features, and who rely on a highly available system to do so. As the Engineering Manager for API, you will lead a talented and growing engineering team responsible for growing the existing portfolio. The ideal candidate should have experience building backend web applications, be driven to become an expert in their domain, have some knowledge of distributed systems engineering, and have a passion for leadership.

What you’ll do:

• Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization to architect solutions to better serve Pinterest’s internal development needs
• Provide technical and team leadership on rapid short-term projects/feature development as well as longer-term development
• Partner with engineering leadership to set engineering priorities, estimate scope of work, execute work, and track progress
• Actively foster high-quality software development through code reviews, pair-programming, and targeted feature development and when needed to unblock the team, prototype new technologies and systems, or demonstrate good coding practices
• Mentor and develop engineers at various levels of seniority
• Enable and enhance production readiness of Pinterest’s first party client APIs
• Grow the team in your first year of employment by hiring great people, * 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.
• This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times every 6-months, and therefore can be situated anywhere Ontario.

• 1+ years of experience as an engineering manager
• 4+ years of software engineering experience as a hands on software engineer
• Track record of developing high quality software in an automated build and deployment environment
• Experience leading a team of engineers through a significant feature or product launch
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, or equivalent experience

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