Engineering Manager, ThredUp
$225-235k
+ Employee Stock Purchase Plan
More information about location
3 days a week in office (Oakland, CA)
Fashion resale platform
Posted today
Fashion resale platform
501-1000 employees
Posted today
$225-235k
+ Employee Stock Purchase Plan
More information about location
3 days a week in office (Oakland, CA)
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To inspire a new generation to think secondhand first.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of engineering experience, including 1+ years of people management
- Strong architectural background in distributed systems, service-oriented design, and event-driven architectures
- Proven ability to drive execution, ensuring teams deliver high-quality work on schedule
- Experience leading full-stack teams, spanning frontend (React, native clients) and backend (Ruby on Rails, JVM microservices, event driven architectures)
- Track record of developing engineers, including identifying and addressing performance issues within individuals and teams
- Ability to lead through ambiguity, adapt to shifting priorities, and execute with a pragmatic mindset
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a product-oriented approach to problem-solving
What the job involves
- ThredUp’s Merchandising Engineering team builds the discovery and browsing experiences that help millions of users navigate our vast catalog of secondhand fashion
- As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a full-stack team responsible for developing new pathways for customers to find what they’re looking for, leveraging our AI-powered search foundation
- This includes enhancing shopping for similar items, refining item taxonomy and catalog quality, and exploring innovative shopping experiences
- You will manage and mentor engineers, ensuring strong execution, high code quality, and team alignment
- You’ll collaborate with senior engineers to support technical decision-making and ensure the team builds scalable, maintainable systems
- Additionally, you’ll drive cross-functional alignment with product managers, designers, and engineers to maintain focus on high-impact initiatives
- Lead a team of up to 5 engineers spanning backend services, web frontend, and native clients (iOS/Android)
- Develop AI-powered browse experiences that help users discover secondhand fashion through personalized recommendations and metadata-driven filtering
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and data scientists to improve item metadata and taxonomy for better discovery
- Drive execution, ensuring the team delivers high-quality features while maintaining technical excellence
- Mentor and support engineers, fostering career growth and engagement
- Hold the team accountable for both execution speed and technical quality
- Facilitate technical discussions, guiding architectural decisions in partnership with senior engineers
Our take
Over 40% of Gen Z consumers claim to have bought used clothing as opposed to 20% of Gen X and Boomers. Yet, despite this change in fashion trends, consumers must often rely on brick-and-mortar thrift stores and unregulated second-hand eCommerce marketplaces in order to access to find pre-owned clothing.
ThredUp provides an online marketplace for the buying and selling of secondhand fashionwear, offering affordable prices on discount clothing whilst promising a regulated and consistent approach to quality and cleanliness standards. The company acquires its clothing through sellers sending packages of clothing, which the company then sifts through to decide what is sellable and what should be returned.
The company went public in 2021 and immediately acquired Remix, a European second-hand fashion outlet, as part of its international expansion plans. It has however struggled to achieve profitability thanks to global economic turmoil and a glut of new clothing in the fashion industry causing prices to drop sharply. It is focusing on reducing its operating costs and expanding its storage capacity, and is expected by analysts to weather the current conditions in good form.
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Insights
0% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Aug 2019
$100m
SERIES F
Sep 2015
$81m
SERIES E
Total funding: $232.9m
Company benefits
- Competitive salary (we leverage market data) + stock
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Flexible PTO (take the time you need) + 13 company holidays (US offices)
- Paid Sabbatical after 3 years of full time employment
- Generous paid parental leave for new mothers and fathers
- Medical, dental, vision, 401k, life and disability insurance offered
Company values
- Transparency
- SpeakingUP
- Thinking Big
- Infinite Learning
- Influencing Outcomes
- Seeking the Truth
Company HQ
Old Oakland, Oakland, CA
Articles
Leadership
James Reinhart
(CEO)Has an MBA from Harvard Business School and started out in teaching. Also co-founded the Beacon Education Network.
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