Take your career to new heights with Loopio!

Loopio is a workplace that unleashes learning & growth opportunities for our Loopers. We provide autonomous challenging work that allows each employee to master their craft. We attract and retain people who are naturally curious have grit and are eager to grow and build their careers. At Loopio we genuinely support each other because true success comes from working as #oneteam.

Were looking for a Senior Software Development Manager who blends deep technical expertise with strong leadership skills to drive the success of our engineering teams across both product and platform domains. This is a hands-on leadership role where youll guide complex architectural decisions foster a culture of engineering excellence and help deliver high-quality scalable software solutions.

Youll lead multiple teams and collaborate closely with cross-functional partnersincluding Product Design QA and Infrastructureto ensure seamless execution of projects aligned with our business goals. Experience with AI technologies particularly Large Language Model (LLM)-based applications is a nice-to-have and considered a valuable addition.

This role requires close collaboration with teams across Canada the UK and India. To accommodate the time zone differences you will be expected to work from 11 am - 7:30 pm IST

What Youll Be Doing

Leadership & Team Development

• Lead mentor and grow a high-performing team of software developers.

• Provide career guidance support personal development and drive performance through clear feedback and coaching.

• Champion a culture of ownership learning and inclusivity within the team.

• Recruit onboard and retain top talent ensuring a healthy and collaborative engineering culture.

Technical Direction & Architecture

• Guide architecture and technical design of complex distributed software systems across both product and platform layers.

• Participate in design and code reviews to uphold standards and best practices.

• Balance immediate deliverables with long-term architectural vision scalability and maintainability.
  Promote high code quality and maintain a pragmatic approach to technical debt.

Project Execution & Delivery

• Own the planning resourcing and execution of software development projects using Agile/Scrum methodologies.

• Align team objectives with business priorities in collaboration with Product and Design.

• Track delivery progress address blockers and proactively manage risks and dependencies.
  Drive accountability and continuous delivery of value to customers.

Process & Quality Improvement

• Implement and evolve engineering processes and workflows to maximize team effectiveness.

• Build a culture of iteration feedback testing and continuous improvement.

• Ensure robust test practices monitoring and deployment strategies are in place.

• Lead post-mortem reviews and implement learnings to drive operational excellence.

Cross-Functional Communication & Influence

• Communicate project status technical challenges and decisions across all levels of the organization.

• Translate complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders.

• Represent engineering in strategic planning roadmap discussions and customer interactions when needed.
  Collaborate across teams to build shared understanding and alignment.

Innovation & Emerging Technologies

• Encourage innovation and experimentation within teams.

• Stay current on industry trends and emerging technologies.

• While not a requirement familiarity or interest in AI/MLparticularly LLM-based applicationsis a bonus and may be leveraged for product innovation.

What Youll Bring to the Team

• 10 years of experience in software development including 3 years in a team leadership or engineering management role.

• Proven track record of leading technical teams through complex projects with architectural impact.

• Strong knowledge of modern software engineering practices cloud-native systems microservices and scalable infrastructure.

• Hands-on experience working across both product features and platform components.

• Solid understanding of Agile methodologies and experience driving delivery in an iterative environment.

• Excellent communication collaboration and conflict-resolution skills.

• Passion for developing people building strong engineering cultures and fostering team growth.

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

• Experience in AI/ML or building features that integrate LLM-based technologies

• Background working on large-scale multi-tenant SaaS platforms.

• Familiarity with tools like AWS Docker Terraform MySQL Redis Elasticsearch and React.

Where Youll Work

• Loopio is a remote-first workplace because we recognize the advantages of working flexibly. We are HQd in Canada with established hub regions around the world where we hire from.

• Our employees (or Loopers as we call ourselves!) live and work in Canada (British Columbia and Ontario) London and India (specifically in Gujarat Maharashtra and Bengaluru).

• Our India/UK hub employees work according to the business hours stated in the job description above. This is intentionally designed to enable our global teams to have overlapping hours for collaboration.

• Youll collaborate with your teams virtually across the UK India and North America (were just a Zoom call and Slack message away!) with core sync hours and focus time for headsdown work during the workday

• We encourage asynchronous collaboration to effectively work as a global #OneTeam!

Why Youll Working at Loopio

• Your manager supports your development by providing ongoing feedback and regular 1-on-1s; we leverage Lattice for our 1:1s and performance conversations

• You will have the opportunity to elevate your craft and the opportunity to explore your creativity with a dedicated professional mastery allowance for more learning support! We encourage experimentation and innovative thinking to drive business impact.

• We offer a wide range of health and wellness benefits to support your physical and mental well-being starting day 1 with Loopio.

• Well set you up to work remotely with a MacBook laptop a monthly phone and internet subsidy and a work-from-home budget to help get your home office all set up.

• Youll be joining a supportive culture that has thoughtfully built out opportunities for connections in a remote first environment.

• Participate in townhalls AMA (Ask-Me-Anything) and quarterly celebrations to celebrate the big wins and milestones as #oneteam!

• Our four active Employee Resource Groups offer opportunities for employees to learn and connect year-round.

• Youll be a part of an award-winning workplace with an opportunity to make a big impact on the business.

Questioning your qualifications Read this Hi there we recognize that all too often potential candidates dont apply for a position simply because they dont hit every single criteria included in the job descriptionparticularly members of underrepresented groups.

Whether or not your experience checks off all the boxes on a job posting we still encourage you to apply to ensure that your application receives a review from our team. We understand that a resume can only showcase so much during the applicant stage so weve created prompts in the application for you to share more about yourself. If youve made a career transition (or a few!) youre self taught in a new role or you have skills/experience youd like to highlight we want to hear more about what you could bring to the table.

AI in Recruitment At Loopio we leverage artificial intelligence (AI) technology to enhance our recruitment process. These tools assist with tasks such as resume screening drafting preliminary job descriptions generating initial interview questions and occasionally sourcing prospective candidates. However AI is never used to make final hiring decisions; our use of AI serves to support repetitive and administrative tasks in order to streamline our hiring and recruitment workflows. We are committed to the responsible use of AI in our hiring practices prioritizing both an improved candidate experience and operational efficiency. Our standardized hiring practices remain focused on reducing biases with all key hiring decisions solely made by our team. We continuously review and refine our hiring practices to align with industry best practices and evolving legal guidelines

Loopio is an equal opportunity employer that is deeply committed to building equitable workplaces that are diverse and inclusive. We actively encourage candidates from all backgrounds and lifestyles to consider us as a future employer. Please contact a member of our Talent Experience team () should you require accommodations at any point during our virtual interview processes.