Who We Are

Twitter is what’s happening and what people are talking about right now. For us, life's not about a job, it's about purpose. We believe real change starts with conversation. Here, your voice matters. Come as you are and together we'll do what's right (not what's easy) to serve the public conversation.

Our mission with the public Twitter API is to unlock developer creativity & innovation to serve the public conversation. The Twitter API has been used by millions of developers to build integrations with Twitter, from “hello world” apps in classroom settings to the most-used consumer and business products in the world. The developer experience encompasses how developers discover, get started, grow, and achieve their goals with the Twitter API.

As part of the team, you will lead and grow a team of engineers to design, architect, and implement scalable backend systems that provide a secure, privacy-focused, and trustworthy developer experiences and application ecosystem so that we can manage our platform at scale.

Who You Are

• You have managed people for 3+ years. 

• You practice Servant Leadership. You believe that the real value add for leadership is not telling your team what to do, but finding out what is stopping them from unlocking their full potential as individuals, and getting them to work together as a team. 

• You’re flexible; not dogmatic. Able to compromise; able to work with / adapt to different styles. You deal constructively with changes in environment, changes in product requirements, etc.

• Have established a technical strategy and roadmap previously, successfully setting key performance metrics in close collaboration with other Engineers, Product Managers and other stakeholders. 

• Can clearly articulate desired outcomes and motivate engineers to develop simple solutions to complex problems

• Excellent communication skills and can demonstrate having collaborated with tech leads and senior engineers, Product Managers, Designers and other disciplines to deliver

• Ability to gather product & business requirements, gut checks new ideas and proposals. Proven track record establishing and driving technical advances, reducing tech debt and making significant improvements in systems

• Bonus points if you have experience doing hands-on work in at least one discipline of backend systems, distributed systems, or data science

A few other things we value:

Customer Aligned - Providing a valuable customer experience while ensuring our APIs are reliably available. 

Learning Mentality - To grow quickly, it is important to actively seek feedback, learn from failures, and listen to different perspectives. 

Clear, Open, Consistent, and Frequent Communication - Collaboration is a key part of our every day job and maintaining communication within and across teams is important.

Diversity - Diversity makes us a better organization and team. We value different backgrounds, ideas, perspectives, and experiences.

We are committed to an inclusive and diverse Twitter. Twitter is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any other legally protected status.

San Francisco applicants: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.