Manager, Software Engineering

Role overview

Technical leadership

• Own technical direction, architecture, and delivery strategy for the Sanctions Service platform, built primarily in Java and C++.
• Lead design and implementation of scalable, reliable, secure software solutions, and drive design reviews, code quality, operational readiness, and engineering best practices.
• Partner with Product, Architecture, Compliance, and Operations; lead incident response, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
• Drive modernization for scalability, resilience, cloud readiness, and operational efficiency; act as senior technical escalation point.

AI and agentic engineering

• Define and execute adoption of AI-assisted and agentic engineering across the software development lifecycle.
• Use AI tools to improve delivery, testing, operational support, documentation, and developer productivity; automate workflows and reduce operational overhead.
• Establish responsible AI guardrails and governance, including security, transparency, and human oversight, while maintaining compliance and risk controls.

People leadership

• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing software engineering team, including career development and performance management.
• Partner with recruiting to attract and retain talent and foster an inclusive, accountable, psychologically safe team culture.
• Plan and prioritize team roadmaps and delivery commitments; establish clear goals, expectations, and ownership.

Required qualifications

• Experience leading software engineering teams and delivering large-scale enterprise software solutions.
• Strong technical background designing distributed, highly available systems and ability to balance hands-on technical leadership with people management.
• Experience managing product roadmaps, business priorities, engineering deliverables, and technical risks.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder-management skills; experience with Agile development and modern engineering practices.
• Passion for mentoring engineers and building high-performing teams.

Preferred qualifications

• Payments, financial services, compliance, fraud, sanctions screening, or risk management experience is a bonus.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools, agentic workflows, or intelligent automation is preferred.
• Experience operating services in regulated, security-sensitive environments is preferred.
• Cloud platform, DevOps, or modern observability knowledge is preferred.
• A bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related discipline is preferred.

Security responsibilities

Compensation

• For work performed in Canada, the role offers competitive pay based on location, experience, and qualifications and may include a discretionary annual incentive.
• The stated Vancouver pay range is CAD $127,000–$203,000.