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Entry-level Engineering Manager resume example

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EtsyPosting location: New York / Brooklyn · United StatesIndependent fictional example, not company material.

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Henry Campbell

Junior Engineering Manager · New York / Brooklyn · United States

Junior Engineering Manager with experience in team growth, technical direction, delivery systems, and organizational impact. Practical work includes Design reviews, Code review mentoring, Incident follow-up, Delivery planning.

Experience

Etsy

New York / Brooklyn · United States

Junior Engineering Manager

Jul 2025 - now

  • With a senior colleague reviewing the change, translated engineering strategy into team ownership and technical investment decisions, balancing roadmap commitments against reliability work; documented which work was deferred and the risk accepted.
  • Within an assigned workstream, established technical review expectations and an engineering growth rubric; used project evidence in coaching conversations so promotion recommendations were tied to demonstrated scope rather than visibility.
  • Within the assigned scope, reviewed design proposals and incident follow-ups with engineers, assigned mentoring through real code reviews, and adjusted delivery scope when staffing and operational load conflicted.
  • Within the assigned scope, led a retrieval quality review using candidate-generation traces, resolved conflicting performance and reliability targets and approved a staged personalization experiment.
  • Within the assigned scope, designed code-review and mentoring assignments using observed skill gaps, reduced repeated design-review findings by 29% over the next delivery cycle.

Datadog

New York · United States

Engineering Manager Project Contributor

Mar 2024 - Jun 2025

  • The team replaced status meetings with written decisions, risk reviews, and weekly demos; my scope was data preparation, quality checks, and follow-up documentation under senior review. The team replaced status reporting with a shared record of decisions, risks, and next owners; documented my assigned work separately from the team result and confirmed it with a senior colleague.
  • Within the assigned scope, reviewed a proposed change against the existing interface contract, reproduced a reviewer’s edge case, and added the missing test or example before merging the change.
  • Within the assigned scope, investigated a failure reported by a downstream team using the exact version and input they supplied. Reduced it to a reproducible test, delivered the fix with compatibility notes, and confirmed the original case passed before closing the report.

Selected project

Engineering Manager — independent case study

Project team member

Sep 2024 - Feb 2025

  • Within the assigned scope, the team funded a reliability roadmap from the top 8 customer-impacting failure modes; my scope was data preparation, quality checks, and follow-up documentation under senior review
  • Built an isolated fixture with normal, malformed and interrupted inputs; recorded the expected response before running the implementation so failures were distinguishable from a changed assumption.
  • Packaged the reproduction steps, configuration and regression tests with the project; checked the instructions from a clean environment and documented the unsupported cases instead of claiming production readiness.
  • Owned the independent regression fixture using isolated inputs, resolved a failing edge case and released a reproducible test package with expected outputs.

Education

University of Washington

Seattle, Washington · United States

B.S. Computer Science

Sep 2021 - Jun 2025

Relevant coursework: Algorithms, operating systems, databases, computer networks

Skills

Role expertise

Design reviews · Code review mentoring · Incident follow-up · Delivery planning

Publications

  • Published an independent technical note using the project’s before-and-after traces, explaining the failed assumption, regression coverage and cases the implementation does not support.

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Etsy

Engineering Manager

New York / Brooklyn · United StatesLead

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  • In the posting
      • retrieval
      • performance
      • personalization
      Term in work evidence

    Lead and grow a team of engineers and applied scientists responsible for designing, building, and maintaining candidate generation and retrieval systems at scale.

    Define and execute the technical strategy for recommendations retrieval, ensuring we balance innovation, reliability, and performance.

    Proven experience in large-scale retrieval, recommendation, or search systems, with a strong background in candidate generation, ANN/vector search, or ML-powered personalization.

    In this resume
    Within the assigned scope, led a retrieval quality review using candidate-generation traces, resolved conflicting performance and reliability targets and approved a staged personalization experiment.
    Junior Engineering Manager · Etsy
  • In the posting
      • code reviews
      Term in work evidence

    Foster a culture of technical excellence, mentorship, and continuous learning through regular design reviews, code reviews, and structured performance feedback.

    In this resume
    Within the assigned scope, reviewed design proposals and incident follow-ups with engineers, assigned mentoring through real code reviews, and adjusted delivery scope when staffing and operational load conflicted.
    Junior Engineering Manager · Etsy
  • In the posting
      • reliability
      • engineering
      Term in work evidence

    Define and execute the technical strategy for recommendations retrieval, ensuring we balance innovation, reliability, and performance.

    Collaborate with cross-functional partners including Ranking, Recs Systems, ML Platform, Data Engineering, Analytics, and Product to shape the direction of the recommendations stack.

    In this resume
    With a senior colleague reviewing the change, translated engineering strategy into team ownership and technical investment decisions, balancing roadmap commitments against reliability work; documented which work was deferred and the risk accepted.
    Junior Engineering Manager · Etsy
  • In the posting
      • candidate generation
      • design reviews
      • people leadership
      Evidence not found

    Lead and grow a team of engineers and applied scientists responsible for designing, building, and maintaining candidate generation and retrieval systems at scale.

    Foster a culture of technical excellence, mentorship, and continuous learning through regular design reviews, code reviews, and structured performance feedback.

    Proven people leadership in high-stakes, fast-moving environments, remaining steady and solutions-oriented through shifting priorities and ambiguous direction

    In this resume

    No supporting experience found. Do not add this keyword unless your own work supports it.

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  • In the posting
      • technical
      Term in work evidence

    Establish clear technical goals, monitor system health, and proactively identify and resolve performance and reliability bottlenecks.

    In this resume
    Within an assigned workstream, established technical review expectations and an engineering growth rubric; used project evidence in coaching conversations so promotion recommendations were tied to demonstrated scope rather than visibility.
    Junior Engineering Manager · Etsy
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