Engineering Manager II, Android Modernization

Location: Toronto, ON, CA

Department: Data Engineering

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Pinterest is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Android Modernization team in Toronto. You’ll lead the engineering team that is empowering Android developers at Pinterest to build modern, world-class app experiences for Pinners and advertisers with high productivity, performance, and quality.

What you'll do:

• Lead, coach and grow a specialized team of Android engineers.
• Set the team’s technical vision and roadmap in partnership with Client Platforms and cross-functional product teams.
• Drive platform modernization that helps product teams adopt modern client architectures and build high-quality experiences.
• Improve client stability, health metrics, browser compatibility, runtime frameworks and critical dependency currency.
• Establish clear operating rhythms for planning, two-week sprints, risk management and monthly stakeholder updates.
• Hire, onboard and develop engineers, creating an inclusive, high-performing team with clear expectations and growth opportunities.
• Use AI to accelerate engineering workflows and modernization while applying judgment and verification to maintain code quality, security and reliability.
  
  

What we’re looking for:

• 10+ years of experience in engineering, including 2+ years of experience in engineering management.
• Strong technical judgment grounded in mobile Android engineering, e.g. Kotlin, Compose, and modern architectures like MVVM.
• Experience partnering with Senior/Staff engineers to build high impact roadmaps.
• Experience building platform capabilities that improve the productivity and effectiveness of product engineering teams.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, and experience aligning priorities across teams and driving delivery through ambiguity and competing stakeholder needs.
• Demonstrated ability to use AI to improve speed and quality in day-to-day workflows, with a strong practice of validating AI-assisted work and maintaining ownership of final outcomes.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field or equivalent experience.

This job posting is for an open vacancy. Please note that the company utilizes artificial intelligence to screen applicants for the positions.

Relocation Statement:

•  This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.
  
  

In-Office Requirement Statement:

• 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.
• Occasionally this role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration and therefore needs to be in a commutable distance from the Toronto office (85 Richmond St W).

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