Manager, Software Engineering & AI

Role overview

Workplace

• Hybrid work model with four days in the office.

Responsibilities

• Lead hiring, onboarding, coaching, performance management, and career development for the engineering team.
• Identify AI and workflow-automation opportunities with business teams and product partners; define priorities, roadmaps, and delivery plans.
• Guide architecture and delivery of AI applications, agents, and workflows; oversee frontend, backend, and integrations.
• Establish standards for design, code quality, testing, reviews, CI/CD, and production readiness.
• Ensure secure, reliable, scalable, observable, and maintainable enterprise solutions.
• Manage risks, dependencies, delivery, and production health; support incidents and continuous improvement.
• Coordinate with architecture, security, data, infrastructure, and platform teams and communicate progress and risks.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience and 2+ years leading or managing engineering teams.
• Experience hiring, mentoring, and developing engineers across AI, frontend, and backend disciplines.
• Knowledge of architecture, system design, APIs, distributed applications, and production enterprise applications.
• Working knowledge of LLM applications, AI agents, RAG, prompt engineering, and tool calling.
• React, JavaScript, Python, RESTful APIs, Google Cloud or another major cloud, testing, Git, CI/CD, observability, and production support experience.
• Understanding of privacy, application security, AI safety, and responsible AI; Agile and cross-functional delivery experience.

Assets

• Assets include Vertex AI, Gemini, BigQuery, vector databases, embeddings, semantic search, Docker, enterprise workflow automation, highly available applications, retail or e-commerce, JIRA, and Confluence.

Compensation

• Hiring range is CAD 120,000–154,000 per year; pay may vary by experience, knowledge, and location.

Screening

• The employer states that candidates aged 18 or older must complete a criminal background check.
• The company uses AI to screen, assess, or select applicants.