Senior Engineering Manager, Backend

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Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IND
In-Office
Senior level
Consumer Web • eCommerce • Fashion • Retail
Poshmark is a pioneer in social commerce, connecting sellers and shoppers to extend the lifecycle of their items.
The Role
Leads multiple engineering teams and shapes technical direction for a major product area. Responsibilities include developing engineering managers, driving cross-functional execution, defining strategy, guiding architecture, planning staffing and succession, partnering with product and executive leadership, and improving engineering processes. The role requires strong distributed-systems expertise, technical leadership across complex organizations, and the ability to manage managers while remaining deeply engaged in architectural decisions.
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About Poshmark


Poshmark is the leading fashion marketplace where style comes alive through discovery, self-expression, and human connection. Powered by a vibrant community of 165 million members, Poshmark brings real people and taste to shopping through a social experience shaped by shared discovery. Buying and selling fashion feels simple, joyful, and personal, while every item tells its own story. Poshmark empowers sellers to grow meaningful businesses, keeps fashion in circulation longer, and gives shoppers access to unique and trusted finds, from everyday pieces to one-of-a-kind vintage and luxury.

 
Senior Engineering Manager

Role Summary

We're looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead multiple engineering teams while shaping the technical direction of a major product area.

This role combines organizational leadership with deep technical judgment. You'll influence architecture, grow future engineering leaders, and drive execution across several teams.

This is not a pure management role. We expect Senior Engineering Managers to understand systems deeply enough to participate in architecture reviews, challenge technical decisions, and help teams navigate ambiguity.

 

Responsibilities

  • Lead multiple engineering teams across a product area.

  • Develop Engineering Managers and technical leaders.

  • Drive execution across large cross-functional initiatives.

  • Define engineering strategy aligned with company goals.

  • Partner closely with Product, Design, Data Science, and executive leadership.

  • Improve engineering processes without adding unnecessary bureaucracy.

  • Ensure engineering investments align with long-term platform strategy.

  • Drive architectural consistency across teams.

  • Own organizational planning, staffing, hiring, and succession planning.

  • Create an environment where engineers can do their best work.

 
 
Qualifications

Required

  • 10+ years software engineering experience.

  • 5+ years engineering management experience.

  • Experience managing managers or multiple engineering teams.

  • Strong background building large distributed systems.

  • Demonstrated technical leadership across complex organizations.

  • Proven ability to execute large, cross-functional programs.

  • Excellent communication and organizational leadership.

Preferred

  • Experience in marketplaces, search, advertising, or machine learning.

  • Experience scaling engineering organizations.

  • Experience leading organizational change.

  • Experience building high-performing engineering cultures.

Skills Required

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience
  • 5+ years of engineering management experience
  • Experience managing managers or multiple engineering teams
  • Strong background building large distributed systems
  • Demonstrated technical leadership across complex organizations
  • Proven ability to execute large, cross-functional programs
  • Excellent communication and organizational leadership
  • Experience in marketplaces, search, advertising, or machine learning
  • Experience scaling engineering organizations
  • Experience leading organizational change
  • Experience building high-performing engineering cultures

Poshmark Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Poshmark and has not been reviewed or approved by Poshmark.

  • Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as fully sponsored from date of hire, including medical, dental, and vision with strong dependent coverage. Mental-health support and additional options like disability, life, FSA, and pet insurance broaden the health offering.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off provisions are described as robust, spanning accrued PTO, holidays and floating holidays, wellness days, bereavement, jury duty, and paid volunteer time. The breadth of leave types suggests strong coverage across common life events and recovery time.
  • Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Lifestyle perks include a monthly stipend, fitness support, commuter benefits, meals/snacks, and home-office support for remote work. These benefits add ongoing quality-of-life value beyond base pay.

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The Company
HQ: Redwood, CA
850 Employees
Year Founded: 2011

What We Do

Poshmark is a leading social marketplace for new and secondhand style for women, men, kids, pets, home, and more. By combining the human connection of physical shopping with the scale, ease, and selection benefits of ecommerce, Poshmark makes buying and selling simple, social, and sustainable. Its community of more than 80 million registered users across the U.S., Canada, Australia, and India, is driving the future of commerce while promoting more sustainable consumption. Read more about Postmark's acquisition by Naver, Korea’s largest internet company, here: https://investors.poshmark.com/news/news-details/2022/Naver-to-Acquire-Poshmark/default.aspx

Why Work With Us

At Poshmark we are a team who Focus on People, Lead with Love, Grow Together & Embrace our Weirdness. We are a community based culture where you feel our core values internally and externally. Join our team and feel good about what you're doing and where you're going.

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