Engineering Manager

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Engineering Manager based in Canada.

This is a people-focused engineering leadership role within a fast-growing fintech environment serving the e-commerce industry. You will lead a fully distributed team of 6–8 mid-to-senior engineers across in-house and nearshore locations. Reporting directly to the CTO, you will help increase organizational capacity while strengthening engineering execution and team development. The team is modernizing a legacy PHP product into a contemporary Ruby on Rails platform using Ruby 4 and Rails 8. Your focus will be approximately 80% people and process, with opportunities to contribute technically through reviews, architecture, mentoring, and solution evaluation. You will also play a key role in hiring, project communication, delivery practices, and creating an environment where engineers can do their best work. The role offers significant ownership and flexibility within a fully remote, distributed engineering organization.

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Accountabilities You will be responsible for the day-to-day leadership and development of the engineering team while introducing greater structure and consistency to how work is planned, communicated, and delivered.

• Manage a team of 6–8 mid-to-senior engineers across in-house and nearshore locations.

• Conduct regular 1:1s, provide coaching, support career growth, and manage performance.

• Strengthen project communication, planning, prioritization, and delivery processes.

• Contribute to technical decision-making through code reviews, architecture discussions, project scoping, and solution evaluation.

• Mentor engineers on technical topics and support sound engineering practices.

• Help guide the migration from a legacy PHP codebase to a modern Ruby on Rails stack using Ruby 4 and Rails 8.

• Drive hiring activities and help build a strong, diverse engineering team.

• Contribute code occasionally when useful, while keeping people leadership and process management as the primary focus.

Requirements:

You should combine hands-on software engineering experience with demonstrated people leadership and the ability to manage distributed, diverse teams effectively. Experience with modern development practices and AI-assisted coding tools is also important.

• At least 1 year of direct people management experience.

• Experience managing fully or partially distributed engineering teams.

• Experience leading diverse teams across different locations and backgrounds.

• A software engineering background prior to moving into management, ideally with 3+ years of engineering experience.

• Ruby on Rails experience is preferred, though there is flexibility for candidates with strong engineering management backgrounds in other technologies.

• Strong communication, coaching, mentoring, and performance-management skills.

• Ability to facilitate architecture discussions, evaluate technical solutions, scope projects, and support engineering decisions.

• Comfort working with AI coding tools such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and Claude Code.

• Ability to understand, review, and critically assess AI-generated code while maintaining clear human ownership and accountability for production software.

• Familiarity with Ruby on Rails, Aurora MySQL, AWS, server-rendered HTML, and light JavaScript is beneficial.

Benefits:

• Salary of $170,000–$200,000 CAD.

• Fully remote position within Canada.

• Work within North American time zones, with most team members based in the Eastern time zone.

• No required core working hours, providing flexibility in how you structure your working day.

• Opportunity to lead a distributed team and make a significant impact on engineering processes and team development.

• Exposure to a major technology modernization initiative involving Ruby on Rails, AWS, and AI-assisted development tools.

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