# Engineering Manager II, Android Modernization

**Company**: Pinterest
**Location**: Toronto, ON
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Pinterest is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Android Modernization team in Toronto.

You’ll lead the engineering team that is empowering Android developers at Pinterest to build modern, world-class app experiences for Pinners and advertisers with high productivity, performance, and quality.

Responsibilities:

- Lead, coach, and grow a specialized team of Android engineers.

- Set the team’s technical vision and roadmap in partnership with Client Platforms and cross-functional product teams.

- Drive platform modernization that helps product teams adopt modern client architectures and build high-quality experiences.

- Improve client stability, health metrics, browser compatibility, runtime frameworks, and critical dependency currency.

- Establish clear operating rhythms for planning, two-week sprints, risk management, and monthly stakeholder updates.

- Hire, onboard, and develop engineers, creating an inclusive, high-performing team with clear expectations and growth opportunities.

- Use AI to accelerate engineering workflows and modernization while applying judgment and verification to maintain code quality, security, and reliability.

Requirements:

- 10+ years of experience in engineering, including 2+ years of experience in engineering management.

- Strong technical judgment grounded in mobile Android engineering, e.g., Kotlin, Compose, and modern architectures like MVVM.

- Experience partnering with Senior/Staff engineers to build high-impact roadmaps.

- Experience building platform capabilities that improve the productivity and effectiveness of product engineering teams.

- Strong communication and collaboration skills, and experience aligning priorities across teams and driving delivery through ambiguity and competing stakeholder needs.

- Demonstrated ability to use AI to improve speed and quality in day-to-day workflows, with a strong practice of validating AI-assisted work and maintaining ownership of final outcomes.

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent experience.

Benefits:

- No specific benefits mentioned.

## Skills

### Required
- Android
- Kotlin
- Compose
- MVVM
- AI
- Engineering Management

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