# Engineering Manager

**Company:** [Pigment](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/pigment)
**Location:** Toronto, Canada
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $180k – $250k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** C#, Java, C++, Go, Rust, Python, Ruby, Object-Oriented Design, Software Engineering, Production Systems, Alerting, Observability, Incident Response, Performance Management, Career Development
**Posted:** 2026-04-02

> Engineering Manager leading and coaching distributed software engineering teams across North America and Europe while remaining hands-on with production software. The role requires 7–8+ years of engineering experience, 2–3+ years of people management, and strong distributed-team leadership skills.

## Job Description

## 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).

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