Engineering Manager II, Android Modernization

Pinterest; Toronto; On-site; CAD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Pinterest is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead the Android Modernization team in Toronto. You will guide engineers, define the team’s roadmap, and drive modernization to empower product teams with high-quality experiences for Pinners and advertisers.

Ideal candidates bring 10+ years in engineering, 2+ years in management, and deep Android tech like Kotlin, Compose, and MVVM, with strong collaboration and AI-focused process improvement.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in engineering with 2+ years in management.
• Strong mobile Android engineering background (Kotlin, Compose, MVVM).
• Experience partnering with senior engineers to build roadmaps.
• Ability to drive platform modernization and improve productivity.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and grow a specialized Android engineering team.
• Set technical vision and roadmap with cross-functional partners.
• Drive modernization to adopt modern client architectures.
• Improve stability, performance and runtime frameworks.
• Establish planning rhythms: sprints, risk management, stakeholder updates.
• Hire, onboard and develop engineers with clear growth paths.
• Use AI to accelerate workflows while ensuring code quality and security.

Skills

Android

Kotlin

MVVM

Leadership

Roadmaps

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Job description

About Pinterest:

Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product.

Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible.

At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI.

Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here.

People use Pinterest to find ideas and brands that they love. We aspire to help our advertisers and partners reach their audiences with inspiring content.

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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Our Commitment to Inclusion:

Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require a medical or religious accommodation during the job application process, please complete this form for support.

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