Wattpad

Overview

Lead and develop the engineering leadership team across architecture, client engineering, platform, and data engineering; shaping the technical direction of Wattpad alongside senior technical leaders.

About Wattpad

Wattpad’s vision is to entertain and connect the world through stories. A leading global webnovel platform, Wattpad has democratized storytelling for a new generation of diverse Gen Z writers and their fans. Wattpad is part of WEBTOON Entertainment’s IP & Creator Ecosystem, where approximately 155 million monthly active users discover incredible st

Requirements & Eligibility

• 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 areas engineering, infrastructure, and data.
• Strong technical depth and architectural judgment, with the ability to credibly challenge senior engineers and technical leaders.
• Experience leading or partnering closely with Data Engineering and a strong understanding of modern data platforms, pipelines, architecture, and analytics infrastructure.
• Demonstrated experience improving engineering operating practices, including planning, estimation, technical roadmapping, delivery, ownership, and incident response.
• Strong people leadership and coaching skills, with experience developing engineering managers and senior technical leaders.
• Proven ability to make sound decisions in ambiguous environments, evaluate tradeoffs, and move teams from problem identification to resolution.
• Strong cross functional leadership skills and experience partnering closely with Product, Design, Data, and other business functions.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the engineering leadership team across architecture, client engineering, platform, and data engineering; building on the strengths and momentum already in place.
• Continue strengthening engineering delivery, planning, estimation, and technical roadmapping as we evolve how our teams work and build together.
• Shape the technical direction of Wattpad alongside senior technical leaders, ensuring our architecture and systems can support both the experiences we’re building today and where the platform needs to go next.
• Strengthen our Data Engineering capabilities and foundations to support a future increasingly powered by personalization, content intelligence, experimentation, and AI.
• Help teams make strong, timely technical decisions and thoughtful tradeoffs between speed, scalability, complexity, and long term maintainability.
• Build an engineering culture where teams are proactive problem solvers, bring forward recommendations, and feel ownership for moving problems through to resolution.
• Develop strong engineering leaders who can operate with increasing autonomy, make good decisions, and grow high performing teams.
• Continue evolving our engineering operating practices so teams have the clarity, communication, and rigor they need to move quickly and respond effectively when issues arise.