Engineering Manager II, Web Product Enablement

Pinterest; California (MO); On-site; USD 98,000 - 127,000; Full time

Job summary

Pinterest is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Web Product Enablement team in Toronto. You will guide engineers building modern, high-quality web experiences for Pinners and advertisers, shaping architecture, and driving productivity and reliability.

Bring 10+ years in engineering with 2+ years in management, deep JS/TS/React knowledge, and a track-record of delivering platform capabilities. Expect collaboration across teams and a role that blends leadership with hands-on technical

Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering experience with 2+ years in management.
• Strong technical judgment in client-side and web platforms.
• Proven ability to lead roadmaps and ship platform features.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and grow a web platform engineering team.
• Set the team's technical vision and roadmap with cross-functional partners.
• Drive platform modernization to empower product teams.

Skills

Node.js

JavaScript/TypeScript

React

Engineering leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

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 Web Product Enablement team in Toronto. You'll lead the engineering team that is empowering web developers at Pinterest to build modern, world-class web experiences for Pinners and advertisers with high productivity, performance, and quality.

What you'll do:

• Lead, coach and grow a specialized team of web platform 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 from depth in Node, JavaScript/TypeScript and React.
• Experience partnering with Senior/Staff engineers to build high impact roadmaps.
• Experience building platform or foundations capabilities that improve the productivity and effectiveness of product engineering teams.
• Experience aligning priorities across teams and driving delivery through ambiguity and competing stakeholder needs.
• Experience improving engineering quality, client reliability, platform health or developer productivity.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to build alignment across engineering and product partners.
• 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.