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Redwood City, California, United States
Onsite
Poshmark is the leading fashion marketplace where style comes alive through discovery, self-expression, and human connection. Powered by a vibrant community of 165 million members, Poshmark brings real people and taste to shopping through a social experience shaped by shared discovery. Buying and selling fashion feels simple, joyful, and personal, while every item tells its own story. Poshmark empowers sellers to grow meaningful businesses, keeps fashion in circulation longer, and gives shoppers access to unique and trusted finds, from everyday pieces to one-of-a-kind vintage and luxury.
We are looking for an Engineering Manager who is passionate about building high-performing
teams, scaling mission-critical platforms, and driving meaningful product impact.
In this role, you won’t just manage delivery schedules—you will own technical direction, partner
closely with Product, and foster a team culture grounded in candor, curiosity, and high
engineering standards.
You are someone who can zoom out to align technical roadmaps with
business strategy, then zoom in to discuss architectural tradeoffs, system reliability, and API
boundaries with your senior engineers. If you thrive on genuine ownership, love solving complex marketplace challenges, and prefer grounded, pragmatic engineering over bureaucratic buzzwords, we would love to talk to you.
What You’ll Do
● Lead and Grow a High-Caliber Team: Hire, mentor, and coach a team of distributed
software engineers across varying levels of seniority, fostering a culture of continuous
learning, psychological safety, and technical excellence.
● Drive Grounded Technical Direction: Partner with Staff/Principal engineers to evaluate
architecture tradeoffs, manage technical debt, and ensure systems are built for long-term
scalability, resilience, and operational health.
● Own Delivery and Outcomes: Take full ownership of your team’s execution—from
scoping and estimation to deployment, monitoring, and retrospectives. Ensure
commitments are met without sacrificing quality.
● Collaborate Closely with Product: Act as an authentic product partner. Deeply
understand Poshmark’s buyer and seller journeys, asking the tough questions that
bridge technical feasibility with user and business impact.
● Champion Operational Rigor: Foster strong operational practices, including
comprehensive logging, observability, edge-case analysis, state management, and
blameless post-mortems when things go wrong.
What We Look For
● Demonstrated Leadership Ownership: 3+ years of experience directly managing
software engineering teams, with a track record of building and shipping
production-grade systems at consumer scale.
● Credible Technical Foundation: A strong technical background as an IC (or equivalent
hands-on experience) with the ability to reason deeply through distributed systems, API
design, scalability bottlenecks, and data synchronization. You don’t need to write
production code daily, but you must be able to critically evaluate technical solutions.
● Clear, Pragmatic Communication: Exceptional ability to explain complex technical and
organizational concepts plainly and directly. You communicate with specifics, value
clarity over jargon, and encourage open dialogue across teams.
● Deep Product Curiosity: Genuine excitement about social commerce, marketplaces,
and user experience. You naturally probe beyond engineering requirements to
understand why a feature matters to our community.
● Candor and Humility: A leadership philosophy built on honesty and coachability. You
are open about past failures, share what you learned, and build an environment where
engineers feel safe admitting what they don’t know.
● Strategic Level Calibration: Strong instincts for talent density—knowing how to
evaluate, develop, and stretch engineers at every stage of their careers (from
early-career engineers to Staff+ leaders).
Why You’ll Love Working Here
● High-Impact Work: Your team's code directly impacts millions of active buyers and
sellers every day.
● Authentic Culture: We value genuine connection, low ego, and pragmatic
problem-solving over rigid corporate hierarchy.
● Holistic Growth: You’ll have direct exposure to executive leadership, product strategy,
and architectural decisions shaping the future of circular fashion and social commerce.
Qualifications & Requirements
● People Management: 5+ years directly managing engineering teams, owning hiring,
performance, coaching, and delivery.
● Engineering Foundation: 8+ years of total software engineering experience building
production-grade, scalable services or consumer-facing apps.
● Architectural Literacy: Able to lead system design discussions and evaluate tradeoffs in
API design, data sync, state management, caching, schemas, and resilience.
● Clear Communication: Explains complex technical and team challenges with grounded,
concrete specifics—no corporate jargon or rehearsed scripts.
● Extreme Ownership: Proven accountability for end-to-end execution, team culture, and
transparent handling of failures and retrospectives.
● Product Partnership: Strong collaboration with Product, Design, and Data to balance
feature velocity with platform health.
Preferred (Nice-to-Haves)
● Domain Experience: Background in consumer marketplaces, social commerce,
ecommerce, or real-time platforms.
● High-Scale Systems: Hands-on exposure to event-driven pipelines (Kafka), distributed
caching (Redis), and large-scale data stores.
● Education: B.S./M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent practical industry experience.
