Senior Engineering Manager, Web Apps

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

📋 Description

• Oversee daily engineering operations in a hands-on leadership role, ensuring clarity on priorities, ownership, timelines, risks, dependencies, and quality expectations.

• Supervise Web Services engineers and contractors, providing coaching, feedback, prioritization, performance support, and fostering team development.

• Manage the team's budget and resource allocation, including inputs for contractors, vendors, tooling, service, operational expenses, and headcount planning.

• Convert product direction, technical priorities, and organizational requirements into cohesive engineering plans.

• Develop team processes, workflows, planning methodologies, and operational rhythms that enhance clarity, accountability, quality, and predictability.

• Retain sufficient product and architectural knowledge to assess trade-offs, recognize risks, and manage engineering tasks effectively.

• Enhance engineering practices concerning code reviews, testing, documentation, release readiness, observability, technical debt, and operational preparedness.

• Coordinate launch and operational readiness with technical and cross-functional collaborators.

• Clearly communicate progress, priorities, risks, and decisions to stakeholders while nurturing an engineering culture focused on accountability, inclusion, technical excellence, open-source principles, and continuous improvement.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 15 years of comprehensive industry experience, including a minimum of 10 years in engineering leadership roles within software products, hosted services, SaaS, cloud applications, communications platforms, or similarly intricate technical settings.

• At least 5 years of experience in people management in an engineering context, encompassing coaching, feedback, prioritization, performance support, career advancement, and team development.

• Proven experience managing senior technical teams, overseeing budget and resource planning, and collaborating with directors, senior individual contributors, product stakeholders, infrastructure/SRE teams, contractors, external partners, and cross-functional collaborators.

• Ability to translate technical, product, or organizational directives into actionable execution plans, ownership frameworks, delivery practices, operational rhythms, and quantifiable outcomes.

• Sufficient technical depth to comprehend engineering trade-offs, release risks, codebase quality, architectural ramifications, service reliability, security/privacy considerations, operational readiness, and engineering practices such as code reviews, testing, documentation, observability, CI/CD, incident learning, and technical debt management.

• Exceptional communication and relationship-building capabilities, with a talent for fostering clarity, accountability, and follow-through in small, scaling, ambiguous, or evolving environments.

• Proven ability to critically assess and incorporate AI-driven tools into engineering management practices, team workflows, decision-making, and productivity enhancements, while establishing clear expectations regarding accuracy, privacy, security, and responsible usage.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work & schedule flexibility

• Company-provided laptop

• Annual bonus program

• Monthly remote work stipend

• Annual professional development stipend

• Industry conferences

• Company all-hands and team gatherings

• 24 days PTO per year (prorated)

• Your birthday

• Year-end company shutdown

• 9 wellbeing days

• Public holidays

• Other paid leave

• Quarterly wellbeing stipend for personal/family activities

• RRSP contributions

• Health, dental, & vision insurance

• Disability insurance

• Life insurance

• Employee assistance program

• Paid parental leave

• Paid sick days