Engineering Manager

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

📋 Description

• Guide, mentor, and cultivate a team of engineers through recruitment, hiring, individual meetings, feedback, career growth, and performance oversight.

• Oversee daily engineering operations, including planning, prioritizing tasks, technical delivery, release coordination, and resolving obstacles.

• Offer hands-on technical guidance through discussions on architecture, code reviews, troubleshooting, and contributions to production code.

• Direct technical design and architectural choices for team services while collaborating on broader platform strategies and cross-system initiatives.

• Convert business and product requirements into actionable technical plans, balancing roadmap execution, technical debt, and operational priorities.

• Manage the design and upkeep of services, applications, APIs, database schemas, and integrations.

• Spearhead complex projects across multiple applications and services, coordinating dependencies with Product, Operations, QA, Design, and other teams.

• Propel enhancements in system reliability, performance, security, observability, and maintainability.

• Lead technical incident management, root cause analysis, and ongoing reliability enhancements.

• Establish and refine engineering methodologies, including automated testing, CI/CD, documentation, code quality, and release processes.

• Utilize AI-assisted development tools to boost productivity, code quality, testing, and workflows while promoting responsible team adoption.

• Set engineering objectives and leverage delivery, quality, and reliability metrics to foster continuous improvement.

• Cultivate technical ownership within the team through active involvement, delegation, and mentorship.

• Relay engineering progress, technical decisions, risks, and operational issues to stakeholders.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a similar technical discipline.

• Over 6 years of professional software engineering experience, encompassing backend development, system design, and production applications.

• At least 2 years of engineering management experience, including direct people management, mentoring, and performance oversight.

• Proficient in Python, Go, or comparable backend programming languages.

• Experience in designing RESTful APIs utilizing frameworks like FastAPI or Gin.

• Familiarity with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL, including schema design and query optimization.

• Proven experience in designing, building, and maintaining highly available, reliable, and scalable services.

• Strong technical acumen and practical software development experience, including contributions to production code and technical problem-solving.

• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities to convey technical decisions, trade-offs, and risks to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Experience in managing engineering delivery, setting technical priorities, and handling cross-team dependencies.

• Knowledge of Agile software development methodologies, including Scrum, Kanban, or similar frameworks.

• Demonstrated experience utilizing AI-assisted software development tools, including validation and security practices.

• Familiarity with automated testing, Continuous Integration, Git, and contemporary development workflows.

• Experience in supporting production systems, troubleshooting intricate issues, and leading incident responses.

• Proven experience in leading and collaborating with geographically distributed engineering teams.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote-first work culture; this position is available remotely for candidates based in Canada.

• Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits package.

• Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities throughout the application, interview, and employment process.

• An inclusive workplace dedicated to diversity, equity, and fairness.