Jobs at Wattpad

Lead Wattpad’s engineering organization across architecture, client engineering, platform, infrastructure, and data. Strengthen technical direction, engineering delivery, planning, roadmapping, incident response, and operating practices. Develop engineering managers and senior technical leaders, improve organizational autonomy and accountability, and foster technical excellence. Partner closely with Product, Design, Data, Content, and Trust & Safety while guiding scalable systems supporting personalization, experimentation, content intelligence, and AI.

Leads Wattpad’s Platform Engineering team, overseeing backend platforms supporting social, notifications, subscriptions, and coin economy features. Responsibilities include managing and mentoring engineers, setting technical direction and roadmaps, guiding architecture and code quality, coordinating project resources, collaborating with Product and business stakeholders, supporting hiring, and managing team performance and development. The role requires significant backend distributed-systems expertise and hands-on experience with APIs, application design, Unix platforms, and compiled programming languages.

Lead Wattpad P&L ownership, AOP and strategic planning, budget and cost control across technology, marketing, and content. Build financial models, evaluate ROI on investments/vendors, optimize spend, partner with cross-functional leaders, and use Google Workspace and Claude AI to automate reporting and analysis.