[Wattpad] Engineering Manager

The role

You will lead and support a team of engineers on the Platform Engineering team, which builds backend platforms for social, notifications, subscriptions and the coin economy at Wattpad. You will set the team's technical direction and grow its engineers.

What you will do

• Lead and support a team of engineers, including performance management, career growth and team administration
• Contribute to planning the technical roadmap by aligning business and engineering goals
• Lead and take part in technical design and planning sessions
• Give technical guidance and feedback on documentation, designs and code
• Work with Product and other teams on requirements gathering and solutioning
• Coordinate resourcing, give 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 technical and soft skills

Required qualifications

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

Nice to have

• 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

Benefits

• Career development and mentorship
• Top industry health benefits, including vision and dental
• Annual health and wellness account
• RRSP contributions (Canada)
• Generous vacation
• Maternity and parental leave top-up program
• Corporate discount for gym memberships for you and your family
• Work from almost anywhere in the world for part of the year
• Winter break shutdown

Before you apply

• You must be authorized to work in Canada (excluding Quebec); Wattpad cannot sponsor work permits
• All interviews are conducted remotely using tools such as Google Meet and Zoom
• Accommodations are available on request throughout the selection process

About the company

Wattpad is a leading global webnovel platform and part of the WEBTOON Entertainment family of brands, with approximately 155 million monthly active users. Its vision is to entertain and connect the world through stories.