Engineering Manager (iOS Modernization)

Pinterest; Toronto; On-site; CAD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Pinterest in Toronto seeks an Engineering Manager to lead the iOS Modernization team, guiding a highly skilled group to deliver modern, high-quality app experiences for Pinners and advertisers. You will drive architectural evolution, coach engineers, and partner with product teams to maintain velocity and reliability.

The role emphasizes strong leadership, collaboration with senior engineers, and the strategic use of AI to enhance productivity while ensuring code quality and security.

Qualifications

• Proven track record leading iOS teams to deliver high-quality apps.
• Experience managing engineers and influencing roadmaps.
• Strong collaboration across product and platform teams.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development and workflow improvements.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the iOS engineering team in Toronto.
• Set the team’s technical vision and roadmap with cross-functional partners.
• Drive platform modernization to enable modern client architectures.
• Establish planning rhythms, sprints, risk management, and stakeholder updates.
• Hire, onboard, and develop engineers while fostering an inclusive culture.
• Apply AI judiciously to accelerate engineering workflows and maintain quality.

Skills

iOS development

Engineering management

Cross-functional collaboration

AI in software engineering

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

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

Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to build alignment across engineering and product partnersDemonstrated 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 outcomesExperience partnering with Senior and Staff engineers to build high-impact roadmaps; aligning priorities across teams; and driving delivery through ambiguity and competing stakeholder needs10+ years of engineering experience, including 2+ years of engineering management experience, with strong iOS technical depth and judgment. Ability to engage in architecture and design reviews, challenge tradeoffs, and uphold a high bar for execution qualityBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field or equivalent experienceExperience building platform capabilities that improve product-engineering productivity and effectiveness, while improving engineering quality, client reliability, platform health, and developer velocity