US California (Redwood City) - Office · Remotefull time
Remote
senior
H1B: yes
Poshmark Engineering Manager at Poshmark responsible for leading high-performing software engineering teams and owning technical direction. This role partners closely with Product and drives operational rigor to ensure scalable, resilient systems.
Responsibilities
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.
● 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
Qualification
● People Managementperformance● Engineering Foundationproduction-grade● Architectural LiteracyAPI design● Clear Communication● Extreme Ownership● Product Partnershipfeature velocity with platform health● Domain Experienceecommerce
Required
● 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
● 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.
