Engineering Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Lead both frontend and backend excellence across the team’s offerings, ensuring high reliability for clients and engineers alike.

• Design backend systems utilizing contemporary design patterns and technologies.

• Collaborate with Product, Security, UX, and Design teams to advance a customer-focused technical roadmap.

• Assess new agentic tools, open source technologies, and vendor solutions.

• Incorporate a security-oriented approach to all products and services.

• Leverage data and retrospectives to enhance team productivity and overall well-being.

• Establish performance benchmarks based on roadmap achievements, technical excellence, and individual development.

• Recruit, mentor, and develop engineers through practical guidance.

• Provide mentorship to senior engineers and delegate leadership tasks effectively.

• Handle challenging conversations with empathy, fostering an environment conducive to team success.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 8 years of experience in software development, with a strong background as an individual contributor.

• At least 3 years of direct experience in people management: leading teams, mentoring engineers, or taking on tech-lead responsibilities with personnel oversight.

• Proven history of successfully launching and managing full stack, production-scale projects with strict SLOs.

• Extensive understanding of identity access management and other security products aimed at developers.

• Proficiency in Go, Python, or a comparable programming language, sufficient to review code, assess technical designs, and engage in credible technical discussions.

• Familiarity with cloud-native infrastructure, including GCP (or equivalent cloud platforms), serverless applications such as Cloud Run, AWS Lambda, or Azure Functions, and Terraform.

• An instinct for AI: adeptness with AI coding assistants and a proven track record of how they impact team workflows.

• Knowledge of ReBAC and ABAC, including Zanzibar-style systems such as Auth0 FGA, OpenFGA, or SpiceDB.

• Experience in multi-tenant account modeling, encompassing business accounts, organizations, workspaces, teams, and hierarchies of roles and permissions.

• Understanding of GraphQL API design, federation, and gateway architectures.

• Background in search and indexing services such as Elasticsearch and event-driven data pipelines like Pub/Sub.

• Familiarity with notification services for in-product alerts, webhooks, SMS, email, and other third-party integrations.

• Proven experience in phasing out legacy systems and executing incremental migrations without disrupting customer experience.

• Experience with vendor assessments and build-vs-buy evaluations.

• Familiarity with developer-facing CLIs and public APIs.

• Visa sponsorship is not available at this time.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity plan in the industry.

• Paid Time Off (PTO), Paid Sick Leave (PSL), and 11 Paid Company Holidays.

• Comprehensive medical coverage (extended health care, dental, vision).

• High-quality equipment provided.

• In-office workspace located in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

• Monthly allowance for wellness, reading, and access to LinkedIn Learning for ongoing development.

• Opportunities for team-based and company-wide events and activities that inspire, educate, and foster community.