Senior Engineering Manager - Feature Infrastructure
- Full-time
Company Description
Twitter is what’s happening in the world and what people are talking about right now. From breaking news and entertainment to sports, politics, and everyday interests, see every side of the story. Join the open conversation, and collaborate with creative and curious people across the globe.
Job Description
Feature Infrastructure is a group of teams within our Client Foundation organization, one of the fastest growing, most heavily prioritized divisions within all of engineering. Our teams design and develop the core of the Twitter iOS, Android, and web apps, from building and extending rich application frameworks to tooling, extend frameworks, and supercharge our partners to develop the product faster, safer, and more consistently than ever before.
The Feature Infrastructure teams mission is to support feature teams to prototype, iterate rapidly, and productionize with ease by providing guidance and frameworks for product teams to build business logic effectively and easily.
Our goal is to ensure that client engineers feel empowered and excited to work productively, confidently, and autonomously, and to ultimately ship with confidence.
Overall, you will be joining a community of 80+ engineers, grouped into sub teams with specific domain focus. Our team is made up of people from all over the world. We work from London, San Francisco, Boston, Colorado and New York, and as well as collaborating with folks remotely across the United States. We welcome people from all backgrounds!
Qualifications
- Drive the group’s technical strategy and roadmap – creating success metrics in close collaboration with other Engineering Managers, Tech Leads and Product Managers.
Have a hunger to move quickly and ship, but also find opportunities to collaborate with partner teams to build reusable infrastructure.
Foster effective team dynamics to build, manage, support high performing teams
You are a passionate coach who cares about people development. Servant Leadership is at your core!
Ensure all teams fully understand the goals and objectives of Twitter as a company and how their work fits in the bigger picture.
You are able to have technical conversations, with a passion to iterate, fail, and learn. You are resilient.
You are someone who is good at facilitating, and knows how to build trust with other teams and partners.
You have a keen interest in providing a great user experience to our customers.
Build a safe work environment for expressing ideas comfortably
Ensure that the team is passionate about delivering sustainable customer value while constantly learning and improving
Foster effective team dynamics to build a high performing teams
Desired Qualifications and Skills
You have a Bachelors or higher degree in Computer Science (or similar) or equivalent work experience
You have 5+ years experience managing people
You have experience managing 2 or more engineering teams simultaneously
You have spent time building UI, platforms, services or worked closely with feature teams
Additional Information
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, 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