Engineering Manager, Core Growth

Snap Inc. is a camera company. We believe that reinventing the camera represents our greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Our products empower people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together.

Snapchat is the camera used by millions of people every day to Snap with family, watch Stories from friends, see events  from around the world, and explore expertly curated content from top publishers. In short, we are a passionate team working hard to build the best platform in the world for communication and storytelling.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to join our Core Growth engineering organization and drive the growth of Snapchat’s global community. You will manage talented engineers who own mission critical backend services and core flows in our mobile app.   Core Growth is a dynamic, creative, highly collaborative organization where engineers contribute not only to technical design, coding and operational excellence, but also to product ideation, defining success metrics, and owning launches as a series of experiments. We build and operate key products for user acquisition, activation and retention such as registration and onboarding, phone verification, friend recommendations, search, sharing, multi-channel notifications, among others.

We are a distributed team and the location is flexible between LA, SF, MTV, Seattle. You’ll manage engineers across different locations, and collaborate with leaders and executives across Snap to deliver the highest quality for our product.

As an experienced engineering leader, you have consistently delivered strong business results and led mission-critical projects to completion.  You build successful engineering teams with vision, mission, and sustainable engineering processes with a strong commitment to operational excellence. 

What you’ll do:

• Create and manage cross-platform (iOS, Android, Backend) product and engineering roadmaps that will enable the foundations of our responsible growth product strategy 

• Partner cross-functionally with stakeholder teams at Snap in order to align and deliver such product milestones

• Closely collaborate with PMs in order to translate product requirements into technical designs, which are then turned into engineering roadmaps.

• Evaluate the technical tradeoffs of major decisions and be a strong technical mentor

• Build and grow a team of exceptional software engineers and technical leaders

Minimum Qualifications:

• BS/BA in a technical field such as Computer Science or equivalent experience

• 6+ years of experience working in software engineering

• 2+ years managing one or more teams of software engineers

• Experience with large-scale microservices and distributed systems and/or cloud computing and storage systems

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with product development in the growth space

• Experience with building mobile apps supported by distributed backend systems

At Snap, we believe that having a team of diverse backgrounds and voices working together will enable us to create innovative products that improve the way people live and communicate. Snap is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please don’t be shy and contact us at accommodations-ext@snap.com.