Engineering Manager

The role

Lead and grow a team of distributed software engineers, hiring, mentoring and coaching them. Own technical direction and delivery, and work closely with Product on Poshmark's marketplace.

What you will do

• Hire, mentor, and coach a team of distributed software engineers across seniority levels
• Partner with Staff and Principal engineers on architecture tradeoffs, technical debt, and long-term scalability
• Own your team's delivery, from scoping and estimation to deployment, monitoring and retrospectives
• Act as a product partner, understanding buyer and seller journeys and bridging feasibility with impact
• Foster operational practices including logging, observability, edge-case analysis and blameless post-mortems

Required qualifications

• 3+ years directly managing software engineering teams, shipping production-grade systems at consumer scale
• Strong technical background as an IC or equivalent hands-on experience, including distributed systems, API design and scalability
• Ability to critically evaluate technical solutions without writing production code daily
• Clear, pragmatic communication of complex technical and organizational concepts
• Genuine curiosity about social commerce, marketplaces and user experience
• Candor and humility, open about past failures and coachable
• Ability to evaluate, develop and stretch engineers at every career stage
• 5+ years directly managing engineering teams, owning hiring, performance, coaching and delivery
• 8+ years of total software engineering experience building production-grade, scalable services or consumer apps
• Able to lead system design discussions and evaluate tradeoffs in API design, data sync, state management, caching, schemas and resilience
• Proven accountability for end-to-end execution, team culture and transparent handling of failures
• Strong collaboration with Product, Design and Data

Nice to have

• Background in consumer marketplaces, social commerce, ecommerce or real-time platforms
• Hands-on exposure to event-driven pipelines (Kafka), distributed caching (Redis) and large-scale data stores
• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent practical industry experience

About the company

Poshmark is a fashion marketplace with a community of 165 million members, where people buy and sell fashion through a social experience. It helps sellers grow businesses and keeps fashion in circulation longer.