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Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates extensive experience in leading engineering teams and developing technical direction, with a strong focus on data engineering, architectural judgment, and improving engineering operating practices. Proven ability to foster collaboration across cross-functional teams while maintaining a proactive engineering culture.
Highest-signal resume keywords
10+ Years Software Engineering Experience5+ Years Leading Engineering TeamsData Engineering LeadershipStrong Technical Depth and Architectural JudgmentCross-Functional Leadership
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Hard Skills
Software EngineeringData EngineeringTechnical RoadmappingPlanning and EstimationArchitectural JudgmentAnalytics InfrastructureIncident ResponseEngineering DeliveryProblem-SolvingScalability
Soft Skills
People LeadershipCoaching SkillsCollaborationCuriosityAccountability
Industry Keywords
Engineering LeadershipTechnical DirectionMulti-Team Engineering OrganizationModern Data PlatformsOrganizational Change
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Lead and develop the engineering leadership team across architecture, client engineering, platform, and data engineering
- Strengthen engineering delivery, planning, estimation, and technical roadmapping
- Shape Wattpad’s technical direction and ensure architecture and systems support current and future platform needs
- Strengthen Data Engineering capabilities and foundations for personalization, content intelligence, experimentation, and AI
- Guide timely technical decisions and tradeoffs involving speed, scalability, complexity, and maintainability
- Build a proactive engineering culture with ownership and problem-solving
- Develop engineering managers and senior technical leaders
- Evolve engineering operating practices for clarity, communication, rigor, and incident response
- Deepen collaboration among Engineering, Product, Design, Data, Content, and Trust & Safety
- Foster technical excellence, curiosity, accountability, urgency, collaboration, and continuous learning
- Build and operate systems powering Wattpad’s reader and writer experiences across mobile and web
Requirements
What you’ll need- 10+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including 5+ years leading engineering teams and senior engineering leaders
- Experience leading a multi-team engineering organization across engineering, infrastructure, and data
- Strong technical depth and architectural judgment
- Experience leading or partnering closely with Data Engineering
- Strong understanding of modern data platforms, pipelines, architecture, and analytics infrastructure
- Experience improving engineering operating practices, including planning, estimation, technical roadmapping, delivery, ownership, and incident response
- Strong people leadership and coaching skills
- Experience developing engineering managers and senior technical leaders
- Ability to make sound decisions in ambiguous environments and evaluate tradeoffs
- Strong cross-functional leadership and partnership experience with Product, Design, Data, and other business functions
- Experience leading through organizational or technical change while maintaining team engagement and delivery
- No specific degree, license, or professional certification is required; equivalent practical experience is valued
- Authorized to work in Canada, excluding Quebec
- Wattpad is unable to sponsor applicants for work permits
Benefits
Comp & perks- Career development, mentorship, and learning support
- Top industry health benefits, including vision and dental
- Annual health/wellness account
- RRSP contributions in Canada
- 401K contributions in the USA
- Generous vacation
- Maternity/Parental leave top-up program
- Corporate gym membership discounts for employees and families
- Work from almost anywhere in the world for part of the year
- Winter break shutdown