Engineering Manager, Wattpad
CA$140-175k
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Platform for sharing original writing
Open for applications
Platform for sharing original writing
1001+ employees
Open for applications
CA$140-175k
Salary shown is for Canadian Candidates
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
Wattpad's mission is to create a world where everyone's story can be heard, and anyone can belong.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years of experience building and leading successful engineering teams
- 5+ years of experience in a prior software development role
- Experience leading and guiding large-scale technical projects
- A strong technical background in order to make well informed decisions
- An effective communicator that can translate complex technical concepts to various audiences
- Comfortable working with ambiguity and technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field
Desirable
- AWS and related products: EKS, MSK, DynamoDB, S3, RDS, Elasticache
- Infrastructure technologies: Redis, Memcached, MySQL, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes
- Languages/other technologies: Go, Terraform, Protobuf/gRPC, Python
What the job involves
- We are hiring an Engineering Manager for one of our platform engineering teams
- Platform engineering teams build capabilities and evolve our technology
- The team mandate is to increase the effectiveness of our engineers through optimizing our systems and creating internal tools and processes
- Our Platform, Infrastructure and Enablement team’s main focus is to deliver, maintain, improve and build best in class platforms and infrastructure to support product building at Wattpad
- Lead a team of 5-10 engineers and play an active role in hiring across the team
- Coach engineers on the team and guide them through a goal setting and achievement
- Contribute to the technology strategy by guiding and shepherding the technical architecture
- Maintain high quality standards, especially with technology, and foster a culture of long-term thinking and innovation
- Help support and unblock the team in delivering on its goals; you will oversee the technical scoping and planning for the team, and lead sprint rituals such as daily scrum and retrospectives
- Work alongside Product Managers and technical product managers to provide leadership, guidance and direction for the team in delivering
Our take
Content is king and Wattpad has managed to turn create a platform that aggregates the most loved original writing content in the world, turning the traditional publishing industry on its head.
Where authors used to submit drafts to dozens of publishing houses in the hope of getting some eyeballs on their work, Wattpad opened up the process to millions of young authors by letting them easily submit their work, and fostering a community around their software that offers feedback and help.
The e-reading platform is now looking to double down on its strategy of taking its user-generated fiction and turning it into successful intellectual property upon which original series and movies can be based. However a significant challenge for Wattpad is in producing original, marketable content from its platform given the popularity of fanfiction, stories which are based on existing intellectual property.
Another challenge for Wattpad is the current economic conditions which have affected much of the tech sector and are not sparing digital publishing. Having shelved bold plans for the future it also laid off 15% of its workforce in March 2023. Having realigned for its current business needs however, it is now well placed to weather the current market downturn.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2018
$51m
LATE VC
Apr 2014
$46m
SERIES C
Total funding: $117.8m
Company benefits
- Full health benefits
- Career development & Mentorship opportunities
- RRSP matching
- Generous parental Leave top-up
- Flexible hours
- Regular hackathons
- Healthy snacks & drinks
- Your choice of hardware
- Monthly work-from-home allowance
- Beautiful offices in Toronto and Halifax
- Easy access to transit
Company values
- UserObsessed- We make every decision by stepping into our users’ shoes
- Inclusive - We help everyone belong
- Trailblazer - We push ourselves on how we think and how we act
- BuildItForward - We’re always building a foundation for tomorrow
- PlayToWin - We’re driven to lead the pack
- Resourceful -We make the most of every minute and every dollar
- TeamWork - We do what’s best for the greater good
Company HQ
St. Lawrence, Toronto, ON
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Leadership
Allen lau
(CEO)Lau attended University of Toronto where he earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering followed by a master's in the same subject. Thereafter he briefly worked as a software engineer for Brightspark before founding his first notable company, Tira Wireless, a mobile development startup. He is also the co-founder of Two Small Fish Ventures, a fund that invests in Toronto and Waterloo-based early-stage internet companies with strong network effects.
Ivan Yuen
(CSO)Prior to Wattpad, Ivan co-founded FeedM8 and served as the company’s CTO. Before that he was one of the first employees of Tira Wireless, where he helped grow the technical team and developed new and emerging wireless technologies. Ivan graduated from the University of Waterloo with a degree in Computer Engineering and also earned an MBA from the Rotman School of Management.
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