Software Engineering Manager
Software Engineering Manager
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Job Description
We are seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead teams of software developers and QA engineers. This is a handson leadership role and you are expected to plan projects review code and contribute where you have bandwidth. You will work across multiple stacks of technologies and will be in charge of building and maintaining the core parts of our platform.
The ideal candidate will have extensive experience as a handson software engineer as well as with leading engineering teams and driving technical initiatives. We are looking for a leader who is passionate about building innovative technologies is customerfocused and is able to work collaboratively in a fastpaced environment.
The ideal candidate will also bring experience driving improvements in process and engineering maturity best practices and developing a culture of excellence and delivery.
You will collaborate closely with the product team ensuring that the engineering team is delivering solutions that exceed customer expectations and align with the product roadmap. You will lead a team of talented and motivated engineers providing technical guidance and mentorship while driving continuous improvement in quality productivity and performance.
The majority of the team is based in the Toronto metro area and works remotely and we are ideally seeking a candidate who can work remotely in a similar time zone (MT CT ET).
You will:
- Lead teams of software developers QA engineers and DevOps professionals to advance and maintain a cloudbased SaaS application for legal practice management and accounting.
- Introduce best practices for software development drive improvements in process and develop a culture of excellence in delivery.
- Stand up metrics and KPIs to measure team effectiveness and ensure the team delivers highquality software on time and within budget.
- Measure and drive improvements in product quality change failure rate cycle time support escalations and other quality metrics.
- Lead important technical decisions with an eye towards scalability modernization and maintainability.
- Provide regular updates to stakeholders across the organization.
- Recruit interview and onboard great people to your teams.
- Encourage a safe and healthy work environment that is both supportive and challenging.
- Engage in performance conversations and help align business objectives to career goals.
- Key areas of focus include:
- Level up the SDLC by adhering to Agile fundamentals
- Improve performance and scalability of the platform by introducing cloudnative technologies such as containers serverless computing and NoSQL
- Accelerate deployment and decrease cycle time by introducing CI/CD and a modern build pipeline
- Migrate hosting from Azure to AWS
- Lead a UX upgrade from AngularJS to React
- Deliver major feature upgrades against our roadmap
Requirements
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field
- 5 years of experience as a Software Engineering Manager preferably at a B2B SaaS company
- 10 years of experience as a software developer / individual contributor
- Experience with Jira DevOps or other project management tools
- Strong knowledge of architecture patterns for modern SaaS and mobile applications
- Understanding of AWS offerings such as Aurora Lambda and S3
- Selfstarter with the ability to operate and lead when no protocol exists
- Demonstrated ability to solve problems in software architecture and platform modernization
Benefits
We have a fantastic and inspirational working environment!
- Medical dental vision offerings
- RRSP with company match
- Flexible workingand PTO
- Take your birthday off
- Frequent team building events
- Fantastic training and development opportunities
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
