Software Engineer (Technical Leadership)

Meta; New York (NY); On-site; USD 271,000 - 347,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

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Benefits

Job summary

Meta is seeking experienced full-stack software engineers for technical leadership roles. Join teams building features across Facebook products and scale large back-end services for billions of users.

You will lead multi-year roadmaps, mentor engineers, and partner with cross-functional leaders to drive impactful initiatives. Ideal candidates have 12+ years of programming and 8+ years in web/mobile tech, with a proven record of delivering large-scale systems and guiding strategic technical

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions.
• Experience mentoring/influencing engineers across organizations.
• 12+ years building large-scale applications or equivalent.
• Proven track record of multi-year roadmaps aligning with long-term vision.
• 8+ years of experience with web or mobile technologies.
• 12+ years of programming experience.
• Experience driving large cross-functional/industry-wide engineering efforts.

Responsibilities

• Drive the team's goals and technical direction to pursue opportunities that improve organizational efficiency.
• Effectively communicate complex features and systems in detail.
• Understand industry and company-wide trends to assess and develop new technologies.
• Partner and collaborate with leaders to improve team and organizational performance.
• Identify new opportunities for the larger organization and influence staffing/prioritization of ideas.
• Create consumer products and features on a large scale.
• Lead long-term technical vision and roadmap for large cross-company efforts.
• Partner with infrastructure and operations to build and scale back-end services.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Mentoring engineers

Roadmap planning

Large-scale systems

Programming experience

Web/mobile technologies

Staffing/priority decisions

Communication of complex features

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent

Job description

We are the teams who create all of Facebook’s product used by more than 1.5 billion people around the world. Want to build new features and improve existing products like Commerce, Ads, Video, Groups, News Feed, Search, and more? Want to solve unique, large scale, highly complex technical problems? Facebook is seeking experienced full-stack software engineers to join our product teams. You can help build products that help us connect the next billion people, create new features that have billions of interactions per day, and be a part of a team that’s working to help people connect around the globe. Join us!

Software Engineer (Technical Leadership) Responsibilities:

• Drive the team's goals and technical direction to pursue opportunities that make your larger organization more efficient
• Effectively communicate complex features and systems in detail
• Understand industry & company-wide trends to help assess & develop new technologies
• Partner & collaborate with organization leaders to help improve the performance of the team & organization
• Identify new opportunities for the larger organization & influence the appropriate people for staffing/prioritizing these new ideas
• Create consumer products and features on a large scale
• Lead long term technical vision and roadmap for large cross-company efforts
• Partner closely with infrastructure and operations teams to build and scale back-end services

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions
• Experience in mentoring/influencing engineers across organizations
• 12+ years of experience with building large-scale applications, or similar experience
• Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmaps in which shorter-term projects ladder to the long-term vision
• Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmap in which shorter-term projects ladder to the long-term vision
• 8+ years of experience with web or mobile technologies
• Experience leading projects with industry-wide impact
• 12+ years of programming experience
• Experience in driving large cross-functional/industry-wide engineering efforts

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience shipping products to millions of customers or have started a new line of product
• Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
• Experience shipping products to millions of customers or having started a new line of products
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
• Experience building and scaling large products or systems
• Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies

About Meta:

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.

Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affidialve Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Meta participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. Please note that Meta may leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies in connection with applications for employment.

Meta is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at [e-mail].

$271,000/year to $347,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.