Software Development Manager, Rendering Foundations

Role overview

Key responsibilities

• Recruit, mentor, motivate, promote, and manage performance for an inclusive, high-performing engineering team.
• Set the technical vision and roadmap for how agents discover, render, and compose shopping experiences.
• Own the orchestration authoring language, generated constructs, build-time synthesis and validation, runtime conformance tests, and authoring abstractions.
• Build evaluation pipelines that compare agent output against known-good results.
• Provide IDE and build integrations, linting, documentation, migration tooling, and compatibility policies for developers.
• Partner across product, design, and engineering to take prototypes to launch.
• Lead architecture and design decisions and technical deep dives into complex issues.
• Manage priorities, delivery commitments, cross-team dependencies, and risks.
• Define strategy and roadmaps with executive and business stakeholders.
• Monitor service availability, latency, reliability, and operational excellence.
• Foster an inclusive team culture and support engineer development.

Basic qualifications

• At least 3 years of engineering team management experience.
• At least 7 years of experience working directly within engineering teams.
• At least 8 years leading definition and development of multi-tier web services.
• Knowledge of software development lifecycle practices, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, builds, testing, certification, and operations.
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience building a new team or launching a greenfield product.
• Experience with developer platforms, SDKs, languages, compilers, or infrastructure-as-code tooling such as AWS CDK.
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems, server-driven UI, or rendering and layout platforms.
• Experience with LLM applications, AI agents, agent protocols, or evaluating LLM output quality.
• Experience promoting AI-native software development practices.
• Experience communicating with users, technical teams, and senior leaders about requirements, features, designs, or strategy.
• Experience recruiting, hiring, mentoring, coaching, and managing software engineers.

Compensation

• The listed annual base salary range for Vancouver, British Columbia is CAD 171,400 to CAD 286,200.
• Total compensation may include sign-on payments and restricted stock units; final compensation depends on experience, qualifications, and location.