Engineering Manager, Personalization Seller Team

Company Description
Etsy is the global marketplace for unique and creative goods. We build, power, and evolve the tools and technologies that connect millions of entrepreneurs with millions of buyers around the world. As an Etsy Inc. employee, whether a team member of Etsy or Depop, you will tackle unique, meaningful, and large-scale problems alongside passionate coworkers, all the while making a rewarding impact and Keeping Commerce Human.

What’s the role?

Etsy is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the team that is expanding listing personalization features for our sellers. You’ll help deliver a re-envisioned suite of experiences that enable millions of sellers to showcase their products and craft to interested buyers.

You’ll do this by helping deliver robust, scalable, full-stack products with updates grounded in experiments that will A/B tested live on Etsy.com and our Seller App. Your team will test new ideas, respond to seller research, and ship delightful solutions that support sellers in providing more complete and accurate information about their inventory. Staying at the forefront of technology, you’ll bring ideas that enable your team to rapidly iterate while maintaining a high bar for quality.

This is a full-time role within the Inventory Buyer Experience Initiative on our Perso Seller Team. Our mission is to deliver a best-in-class experience for purchasing personalized items.

This is a full-time position reporting to the Director of Engineering. In addition to salary, you will also be eligible for an equity package, an annual performance bonus, and our competitive benefits that support you and your family as part of your total rewards package at Etsy.

This role requires your presence in Etsy’s Mexico City office in an in-person or flex capacity. Candidates living within commutable distance of Mexico City, may be the first to be considered.

Etsy offers different work modes to meet the variety of needs and preferences of our team. Learn more about our Flex and Office-based work modes and workplace safety policies here.

What does the day-to-day look like?

• Lead a fast paced, data-driven, and agile team of 5 to 8 fullstack software engineers to build systems that measurably improve seller’s ability to list, edit, and update listings that collect personalized inputs from our buyers

• Take part in the end-to-end recruiting process, hiring and on-boarding exceptional engineering talent.

• Serve as a coach, mentor, and advocate for the engineers on your team.

• Work with other leaders within engineering to develop and evolve engineering processes and standard methodologies.

• Prioritize, scope, plan, develop, and deliver projects at various completion stages or definitions when started. Planning and delivery of your team’s roadmap

• Establish strong cross-functional relationships with product engineers, product managers, user researchers, designers, analysts as well as platform, data, and infrastructure teams.

• Foster a culture of learning, collaboration and thoughtful delivery on your teams

• Of course, this is just a sample of the kinds of work this role will require! You should assume that your role will encompass other tasks, too, and that your job duties and responsibilities may change from time to time at Etsy's discretion, or otherwise applicable with local law.

Qualities that will help you thrive in this role are:

• Strong Engineering full-stack hands-on experience, including ownership of user facing experiences that support high volume and require high reliability and the backend systems that power them within a large code base.

• Experience working in a product engineering context (collaborating directly with non-engineering teams to build cohesive end-to-end systems)

• Experience coaching and mentoring engineers through significant career achievements

• Excellent written and oral communication skills, comfortable working with collaborators outside engineering (ex: Design, Product, Analytics)

• Experience shaping team process that focus on delivering work effectively and setting technical strategy

• Familiarity with one or more modern web JavaScript frameworks such as React, Redux, Preact, Angular, Vue, Next.js or similar

• Familiarity with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.

• 3+ years of people management experience

• Can promote high-quality technical decision-making across a broad stack, pairing a passion for the technical aspects of your domain with empowering engineers to make decisions.

• Know how to apply team processes efficiently to amplify your team’s work and deliver products efficiently.

• Excel in an environment with an emphasis on experimentation and metrics.

• Have the ability to make data-driven decisions in the face of ambiguous or changing priorities and goals.

• Lead the creation of effective documentation, whether it’s for code, system design, or making group decisions.

• A trust in and dedication to Etsy’s vision, mission and values.

Nice to have skills:

• Experience using PHP, MySQL in scaled production environments

• Experience with shipping features in mobile apps using Flutter or another cross platform technology

• Experience with A/B testing experiments to validate product improvements

Additional Information

What's Next
If you're interested in joining the team at Etsy, please share your resume with us and feel free to include a cover letter if you'd like. As we hope you've seen already, Etsy is a place that values individuality and variety. We don't want you to be like everyone else - we want you to be like you! So tell us what you're all about.

Our Promise
At Etsy, we believe that a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace furthers relevance, resilience, and longevity. We encourage people from all backgrounds, ages, abilities, and experiences to apply. Etsy is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during any part of the application or interview process, please let your recruiter know. While Etsy supports visa sponsorship, sponsorship opportunities may be limited to certain roles and skills.