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 scalable, reliable, secure software design and implementation; drive design reviews, code quality, operational readiness, and engineering practices.
• Partner with Product, Architecture, Compliance, and Operations; lead incidents, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
• Modernize for scalability, resilience, cloud readiness, and operational efficiency; act as senior technical escalation point.

AI and people leadership

• Set strategy for AI-assisted and agentic engineering across the software development lifecycle; use AI to improve delivery, testing, support, documentation, and developer productivity.
• Identify workflow automation opportunities and establish responsible AI guardrails for security, transparency, and human oversight.
• Lead, coach, and performance-manage a high-performing engineering team; support career development and recruiting.
• Plan team roadmaps, priorities, delivery commitments, goals, expectations, and ownership.

Required qualifications

• Proven experience leading software engineering teams and delivering large-scale enterprise software.
• 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; Agile development and modern engineering practices experience.

Preferred qualifications

• Payments, financial services, compliance, fraud, sanctions screening, or risk management experience is a bonus.
• AI-assisted development, agentic workflows, intelligent automation, or regulated and security-sensitive service experience is preferred.
• Cloud platforms, DevOps practices, and observability tooling knowledge are preferred.
• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related discipline is preferred.

Compensation

• For a role performed in Canada, the successful candidate may be eligible for a discretionary annual incentive program.
• Vancouver pay range listed as CAD 127,000–203,000; the posting does not specify a pay cadence.

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