Engineering Manager

Responsibilities

• Develop the product alongside engineers locally and overseas in distributed teams.
• Own reporting lines within a community, managing engineers across Europe and North America.
• Ensure collaboration and alignment across teams in France, the UK, and Canada/US.
• Act as a culture carrier for the AMER region and Toronto office.
• Support engineer growth, performance, and engagement.
• Hire, coach, and manage software engineers.
• Define expectations, provide feedback, and support performance management.
• Build and follow career development plans using a skill-leveling matrix.
• Participate in performance and compensation discussions, including under-performance remediation.
• Onboard and ramp up new hires.
• Lead cross-team and cross-location initiatives that improve engineering practices, culture, or processes.
• Contribute to hiring, employer branding, and local office culture.
• Collaborate daily with teams in France and the UK across time zones.
• Maintain production systems, operational conditions such as alerting and observability, and incident response practices.

Software Engineering Requirements

• Translate functional requirements into simple, scalable, elegant designs.
• Deliver high-quality, production-ready code.
• Understand product and customer needs and contribute ideas that maximize user value.
• Remain close to the code to support technical credibility and team ramp-up.
• Apply strong software engineering fundamentals.

Requirements

• Typically 7–8+ years of senior-level software engineering experience working on production systems.
• 2–3+ years of people management experience.
• Experience designing object-oriented software using languages such as C#, Java, C++, Golang, Rust, Python, or Ruby.
• Strong communication, empathy, coaching, and leadership skills.
• Experience working with distributed or remote teams.
• Knowledge of the Canadian market and practices.
• Fluent English.
• A people-focused, collaborative, learning-oriented, and humble approach.

Work Arrangement

• Hybrid role based in the Toronto office.
• 50% office presence is required to strengthen team bonding and local culture.

Compensation

• Salary: 180000–250000 (ATS-provided).