Software Development Manager

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

📋 Description

• Enhance customer satisfaction by ensuring that releases elevate the customer experience and scrutinizing efforts that do not contribute.

• Leverage AI to accelerate processes, enhance release quality, and streamline maintenance tasks.

• Maintain focus within each squad on the appropriate priorities.

• Create squads that assume complete responsibility for their segment of the product, from design to production.

• Collaborate with Product and Design to keep the roadmap aligned with the team's goals.

• Elevate development practices and support the individuals who uphold these standards.

• Mentor and recruit developers.

• Oversee 12 developers distributed across 3 squads.

• Engage in close collaboration with Product and Design teams.

• Make prompt decisions and adapt them as necessary.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in managing a development team of 5 or more individuals, encompassing hiring and coaching processes.

• The managerial courage to engage in challenging performance discussions, deliver direct feedback, and uphold high standards.

• A robust product mindset, beginning with the customer’s problem and understanding when to decline tasks that do not address it.

• Comprehensive knowledge of modern software development and architectural practices, with sufficient depth to question technical choices.

• A demonstrated history of enhancing team operations through AI and automation, while evaluating the outcomes.

• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and making swift, reversible decisions.

• Proficiency in English is mandatory.

🏝️ Benefits

• Annual bonus program.

• Long-Term Incentive Plan (LTIP), allowing participation in Workleap’s long-term growth.

• Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP).

• Family group insurance.

• Access to telemedicine services.

• Annual wellness budget.

• Flexible vacation policy.

• Opportunity for remote work, with access to Montreal offices.

• In-person gatherings twice a year.

• Claude available to all employees.