Company Description
Etsy is the global marketplace for unique and creative goods. We build, power, and evolve the tools and technologies that connect millions of entrepreneurs with millions of buyers around the world. As an Etsy Inc. employee, whether a team member of Etsy or Depop, you will tackle unique, meaningful, and large-scale problems alongside passionate coworkers, all the while making a rewarding impact and Keeping Commerce Human.

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What’s the role?

 Etsy is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the team that increases the quality and accuracy of our Inventory data by maintaining a clear and consistent classification system. You’ll help deliver an enriched understanding of our inventory, enabling millions of buyers to find the items that meet their shopping mission.

You’ll do this by helping deliver robust, scalable, full-stack products with updates grounded in experiments that will A/B tested live on Etsy.com. Your team will test new ideas, respond to seller research, and ship delightful solutions that support sellers in providing more complete and accurate information about their inventory. Staying at the forefront of technology, you’ll bring ideas that enable your team to rapidly iterate while maintaining a high bar for quality.

Does working on both internal tools and external facing releases to help sellers merchandise their unique offerings to reach the buyers who love their work sound exciting to you? If so, we’d love to hear from you!

This is a full-time position reporting to a Director of Engineering within the Inventory & Fulfillment Systems team, which focuses on high impact improvements for connecting buyers to items that meet their shopping mission and supports sellers in meeting buyer expectations. In addition to salary, you will also be eligible for an equity package, an annual performance bonus, and our competitive benefits that support you and your family as part of your total rewards package at Etsy.

For this role, we are considering candidates based in the United States and Canada. Candidates living within commutable distance of Etsy’s Brooklyn Office Hub or in the San Francisco Bay Area may be the first to be considered. For candidates within commutable distance, Etsy requires in-office attendance once or twice per week depending on your proximity to the office. Etsy offers different work modes to meet the variety of needs and preferences of our team. Learn more details about our work modes and workplace safety policies here. 

What’s this team like at Etsy?

This team plays an important role in matching buyers with items that meet their shopping missions by supporting our sellers in ensuring that every item in our catalog can be easily found, understood, and trusted. Here’s a glimpse of the type of problems you’ll help solve:

• Establish a clear, scalable, and standards-aligned taxonomy that improves product classification, enhances buyer discovery, supports merchandising efforts, and sets a strong foundation for long-term discovery strategy and tooling.

• Identify listings that do not meet our quality standards for classification and support sellers in re-classifying their items.

• Enable sellers to better articulate the breadth of options they offer to buyers in ways that are easily discoverable such as expanding the granularity of choices and specifications available to describe products and enabling buyers to choose from a range of offerings.

What does the day-to-day look like?

• Lead the engineering team within the context of product engineering, establishing effective processes that increase collaboration across disciplines. 

• Lead a fast paced, data-driven, and agile team of 8 engineers to build systems that measurably improve the marketplace taxonomy and listing data in close partnership with product teams.

• Establish strong cross-functional relationships with product engineers, product managers, user researchers, designers, analysts as well as platform, data, and infrastructure teams to understand user needs and translate them into technical solutions that improve user outcomes.

• Set clear team goals, prioritize projects, and ensure timely delivery of features and improvements; monitor system performance and work proactively to identify and resolve related issues.

• Take part in the end-to-end recruiting process, hiring and on-boarding exceptional engineering talent. 

• Serve as a coach, mentor, and advocate for the engineers on your team.

• Work with other leaders within engineering to develop and evolve engineering processes and standard methodologies.

• Leverage established tools built by our enablement teams and help create new paved paths within product engineering context. 

• This is just a sample of the kinds of work this role will require! You should assume that your role will encompass other tasks, too, and that your job duties and responsibilities may change from time to time at Etsy's discretion, or otherwise applicable with local law.

Qualities that will help you thrive in this role are:

• Extensive hands-on experience with internal tools supporting high volume within large codebases.

• Proven ability to work with non-engineering teams (Product, Design, Analytics) to build end-to-end systems, utilizing A/B testing for product updates.

• Skilled in coaching and mentoring engineers, shaping team processes for effective delivery, and setting technical strategy.

• Communication: Excellent written and oral communication skills, comfortable working with diverse collaborators.

• Familiarity with modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React, Redux) and cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure), including containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) and CI/CD pipelines.

• 5+ years of experience in people management.

• Ability to make data-driven decisions, promote high-quality technical decision-making, and excel in an experimentation and metrics-driven environment.

• Leads effective documentation and demonstrates dedication to the company's vision, mission, and values.

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What's Next
If you're interested in joining the team at Etsy, please share your resume with us and feel free to include a cover letter if you'd like. As we hope you've seen already, Etsy is a place that values individuality and variety. We don't want you to be like everyone else -- we want you to be like you! So tell us what you're all about.
 
Our Promise
At Etsy, we believe that a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace furthers relevance, resilience, and longevity. We encourage people from all backgrounds, ages, abilities, and experiences to apply. Etsy is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during any part of the application or interview process, please let your recruiter know. While Etsy supports visa sponsorship, sponsorship opportunities may be limited to certain roles and skills.