Head of Engineering
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Must be located in NYC (we are in office Monday Thursday). Please apply by emailing with Head of Engineering in the subject line and include the following:
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- Which Pickle feature would you be most excited to work on if you got the job tomorrow
Pickle is a rental marketplace that aims to monetize the billions of underutilized assets sitting in consumers closets and brands inventory. Users can easily tap into shared closets within their community through flexible and/or ondemand delivery options. Our goal is to provide affordable and convenient access to quality items exactly when our users need them. We are starting with P2P clothing/accessories and expanding to other categories.
Were looking for a technical productminded and dedicatedHead of Engineeringto lead the development of a platform thats reliable performant and built to scale. This is a key leadership role where youll shape both the technology stack and the engineering culture of the company.
Role Overview:
AsHead of Engineering youll oversee the development of our mobile web and backend platforms. Youll partner closely with Product Design and Operations to build features that support renter and lender growth ensure marketplace health and unlock new types of logistics and community experiences.
Youll be responsible for the technical vision architectural decisions engineering and team building needed to grow Pickle into a bestinclass consumer marketplace.
Requirements
- 6 years of experience in software engineering with at least 2 years managing teams
- Desire to be a player/coach by hiring and managing engineers as well as contributing to the code
- Experience building and scaling consumerfacing platforms or marketplaces (bonus if peertopeer)
- Strong engineering experience ideally with React Native and AWS developer services
- Deep understanding of fullstack architecture CI/CD practices and performance optimization
- Passionate about great UX and clean code
- A strategic mindset: you can balance product velocity with longterm tech investments
- Experience working crossfunctionally with product design and operations
- Comfortable in a fastpaced lean collaborative environment
- Bonus: experience with logistics payments or trust & safety engineering domains
Key Responsibilities:
- Own Pickles technical roadmap ensuring the platform is scalable secure and performant
- Manage and grow a highperforming engineering team; mentor engineers across levels
- Contribute to frontend and backend codebases review pull requests and set up engineering tooling and automation
- Partner with Product and Design to define and deliver features that improve user experience and drive marketplace outcomes (e.g. conversion retention liquidity)
- Own technical metrics (e.g. uptime API response times crash rates etc. and monitoring and observability tooling
- Architect backend systems to support logistics trust and safety user growth and marketplace matching
- Ensure the platform supports datainformed decisionmaking through clean analytics integrations
- Collaborate with Growth Ops and Community teams to improve delivery flows messaging systems and onboarding experiences
- Build scalable infrastructure to support multimarket complexity and local nuance
- Evaluate and own key technical partnerships tooling and development frameworks
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and equity
- Healthcare (Medical Dental Vision)
- Take what you need paid time off
- Meal Pal credits to cover the cost of lunch
- Stipend to help set up your desk and office environment
- Work directly with the founders and executive team
- Professional coaching training and development
- Grow with the company
- Pickle credits for our employees we love when the team uses Pickle!
- Fun team events and company parties
- Company offsites
- Office space in NYC
Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full-Time
