Manager – Engineering

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, which manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Manager – Engineering based in Canada. As an experienced engineering leader, you will oversee a talented team of software engineers responsible for building, maintaining, and evolving critical digital platforms and services. You will combine hands-on technical expertise with people management to drive engineering excellence and successful product delivery. Your role will involve shaping technical architecture, guiding development practices, and ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of production systems. Working closely with cross-functional teams, you will translate business priorities into effective technical solutions and long-term improvements. You will foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous learning, and technical ownership. You will also champion modern engineering practices, including the responsible adoption of AI-assisted development tools. This is a remote opportunity within Canada, offering the chance to make a meaningful impact on large-scale Internet infrastructure. Accountabilities: • Lead, mentor, and develop a team of engineers through recruitment, onboarding, regular feedback, performance management, and career development. • Oversee day-to-day engineering execution, including planning, prioritization, delivery, release coordination, and blocker resolution. • Provide hands-on technical leadership through architecture discussions, code reviews, troubleshooting, and contributions to production code. • Guide technical design and architectural decisions while contributing to broader platform strategy and cross-system initiatives. • Translate business and product requirements into actionable engineering plans, balancing roadmap objectives, technical debt, and operational priorities. • Oversee the development and maintenance of backend services, applications, RESTful APIs, database schemas, and integrations. • Coordinate complex technical initiatives across multiple teams, working closely with Product, Operations, QA, Design, and other engineering stakeholders. • Drive improvements in system reliability, scalability, performance, security, observability, and maintainability. • Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives to strengthen production systems. • Establish and continuously improve engineering standards, including automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, documentation, code quality, and release management. • Promote the effective and responsible use of AI-assisted development tools to enhance productivity, testing, code quality, and engineering workflows. • Define clear engineering objectives and monitor delivery, quality, and reliability metrics to support continuous improvement. • Encourage technical ownership and independent decision-making while balancing hands-on involvement with delegation and mentorship. • Communicate technical decisions, delivery progress, risks, and operational priorities clearly to stakeholders. Requirements: • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline. • At least 6 years of professional software engineering experience, with strong expertise in backend development, system design, and production applications. • At least 2 years of engineering management experience, including direct people management, mentoring, and performance evaluation. • Strong programming experience with Python, Go, or comparable backend languages. • Experience designing and developing RESTful APIs using frameworks such as FastAPI or Gin. • Solid experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL, including database schema design and query optimization. • Proven ability to design, build, and operate highly available, scalable, and reliable software services. • Strong technical judgment and hands-on development capabilities, including production code contributions and complex technical problem-solving. • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts, trade-offs, and risks to both technical and nontechnical audiences. • Demonstrated experience managing engineering delivery, technical priorities, and cross-functional dependencies. • Familiarity with Agile methodologies, including Scrum, Kanban, or similar development frameworks. • Practical experience using AI-assisted software development tools, with an understanding of appropriate validation, quality assurance, and security practices. • Experience with automated testing, Continuous Integration, Git, and modern software development workflows. • Proven ability to support production environments, troubleshoot complex technical issues, and lead incident response. • Experience managing and collaborating with geographically distributed engineering teams. Nice-to-have qualifications: • Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or other message brokers. • Knowledge of DNS, EPP, RDAP, or other Internet protocols. • Experience modernizing legacy applications, systems, and services. • Background developing and maintaining e-commerce or other transaction-oriented platforms. • Familiarity with AWS or other cloud platforms and container technologies such as Docker, Docker Swarm, or Kubernetes. • Knowledge of OAuth 2.0, JWT, OpenAPI, and API security best practices. • Understanding of networking, Linux environments, and infrastructure operations. Benefits: • Competitive salary: Annual base salary ranging from CAD 160,000 to CAD 170,000 for Canadian residents, depending on location, experience, and qualifications. • Remote-first flexibility: Work remotely from anywhere in Canada with a reliable Internet connection. • Comprehensive total rewards: Access to a competitive compensation package and generous employee b