Senior Engineering Manager

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

📋 Description

• Shape Product Strategy: Collaborate with Product Management and Design to develop roadmaps and establish clear technical and performance criteria for upcoming projects.

• Champion Agility: Foster an agile mindset through team rituals and processes that enhance predictable delivery, swift feedback cycles, and continual improvement.

• Lead Project Delivery: Steer the execution of intricate, cross-functional engineering projects. Define and segment work into well-defined milestones, ensuring alignment with commonsku's vision.

• Provide Technical Leadership: Serve as a technical leader and thought partner, clarifying ambiguity and applying sound engineering judgment to guarantee sustainable and scalable systems.

• Cultivate Talent: Develop, nurture, and retain a team of engineering professionals by creating an environment of psychological safety, accountability, and technical excellence.

• Coach & Mentor: Offer consistent coaching, feedback, and career development in line with our internal progression framework.

• Connect Team to Mission: Ensure every team member comprehends how their contributions relate to customers, our mission, and our overall business strategy.

• Navigate Trade-offs: Thoughtfully and transparently balance business, customer, and technical trade-offs.

• Drive Engineering Excellence: Identify strategic opportunities to enhance engineering practices, tools, or systems, and promote the widespread adoption of these improvements.

• Represent Engineering Interdepartmentally: Advocate for the engineering team in company-wide initiatives, helping others understand the impact, scope, and feasibility of proposed technical solutions.

• Facilitate Clear Communication: Exhibit clear, proactive, and tailored communication across various levels and audiences while broadly sharing learnings, progress, and outcomes.

⛳️ Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with a demonstrated history of delivering scalable, high-quality software in a dynamic environment.

• 3+ years of experience in managing engineers, encompassing hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career development.

• Proven experience collaborating with Product and Design teams to shape roadmaps, define scope, and deliver customer-focused features.

• Strong technical foundation with hands-on experience in system design, architecture, and contemporary development practices.

• Demonstrated capability to lead complex, cross-functional projects from inception to delivery, balancing technical trade-offs with business outcomes.

• Solid understanding of Agile principles and experience promoting them.

• A proven track record of building and scaling engineering processes that enhance team health, delivery speed, and code quality.

• Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal, with the capacity to create clarity and alignment among technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• An action-oriented mindset, a customer-first approach, and the ability to think and act strategically.

• Comfort working independently and asynchronously, while also valuing collaboration and connection with colleagues.

• Experience utilizing AI coding tools and workflows, and establishing best practices for engineering teams.

• Bonus: Familiarity with devops tools/practices; experience with Generative AI and its application in solving customer challenges.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote-first culture (with a variety of excellent in-person experiences included)

• Company-wide closure from December 25th to January 1st

• Health and dental benefits, along with a $1,000 healthcare spending account

• RRSP/TFSA contributions of up to $3,000 per year (no employee contribution needed!)

• Biannual company-wide summits (referred to as HQ, which you'll enjoy)

• A wonderful team of intelligent individuals who excel in their roles