7+ years of hands-on experience in product engineering
Strong fundamentals in software architecture, design, development, testing, and production support
Excellence in identifying trade-offs and opportunities for improvement
Experience with experimentation, incremental delivery, and tight feedback loops
Ability to maintain a big-picture perspective while managing details
Track record of fostering collaboration and mentoring engineers
Excellent communication, leadership, organizational, and problem-solving skills
Responsibilities
Support and manage a team of 3-5 software engineers
Guide architecture, design, data modeling, and implementation choices
Set a trajectory of continuous improvement in technical practices and delivery processes
Create a cohesive team culture with high engagement and shared ownership
Involve engineers in discovery to internalize the 'why' of their work
Help engineers improve their craft and provide frequent feedback
Collaborate with Product Manager and Designer to understand customer needs
Benefits
Opportunity to lead and mentor a small team of engineers
Engagement in both leadership and hands-on development roles
Collaboration with cross-functional teams to shape product direction
Focus on continuous improvement and team culture
Involvement in decision-making processes that impact multiple teams
Full Job Description
ROLE OVERVIEW
This role has three dimensions: leading engineers, working closely with a Product Manager and Designer as a "product trio", and collaborating with other engineering leaders on common needs and shared concerns.
You will be deeply involved in the technical details of your team's work - to assist or unblock them, challenge them, and help them improve both individually and as a team.
Your leadership responsibilities will generally require about two thirds of your time and attention; the remainder will be spent as a hands-on contributor in development and/or testing.
WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING
Engineering leadership:
Support and manage a team of 3-5 software engineers
Guide architecture, design, data modelling, and implementation choices within your team
Set them on a trajectory of continuous improvement - in technical practices, delivery processes, and systems thinking
Create a healthy and cohesive team culture, with high engagement, a strong sense of shared ownership, and the ability to mostly self-organize without relying on your directives
Involve engineers in discovery, and ensure they understand, internalize and apply the "why" of what they're working on
Help each of the engineers improve their craft and grow in their careers, keep them motivated, and provide frequent informal feedback and semi-annual reviews
Work closely as part of a trio with the team's Product Manager and Designer to ...
Discover and understand the needs of your customers
Experiment with different ways to fulfill those needs to identify which are most effective and engaging - and which make them want to come back for more
Assess feasibility, costs, risks and technical challenges of different opportunities and solutions early in the process, and take them into account when deciding which ones to pursue
Challenge ideas constructively, pushing back on opportunities and solutions that are too costly or risky - and proposing simpler alternatives
Break down large features and initiatives into smaller steps for incremental delivery of user value, fast feedback cycles, and adjusting or pivoting as we learn
Maintain a healthy balance between building new capabilities/enhancements and maintaining the health of the existing product - in both its functional and technical aspects
Share accountability for outcomes, not just output
Collaborate with other Tech Leads and Engineering Managers on:
Technical choices, practices and processes which affect multiple teams
Boundaries and dependencies between teams and their systems - including domain modelling, API definitions, information flows, and composable UIs
Improving the way we use infrastructure, CI/CD, test automation, AI assistants and agents, and other tools for development, testing, trouble-shooting and security
Hiring
Engineering culture
Ensuring that for each subsystem within the product, we have clarity on which team is responsible for maintaining it, supporting it, and serving as the stewards of its evolution and long-term health
WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TABLE
7+ years of hands-on experience in product engineering
Strong fundamentals in software architecture, design, development, testing and production support
Excellence in identifying trade-offs and opportunities for improvement, and good judgment in navigating them - both in products themselves and in the way your team works on them
Experience with experimentation, incremental delivery and tight feedback loops, where user behaviour plays a major role in shaping the evolution of the product
Ability to keep the big picture in mind while working in the weeds - and pay close attention to low-level details while working on the big picture
Track record of fostering and facilitating collaboration, excellence and alignment with both engineers and cross-functional peers;mentoring engineers;and giving constructive feedback
Excellent communication, leadership, organizational and problem-solving skills
Ability to bridge divides and create shared understanding among engineers, product managers, designers and customer-facing teams
IN A PERFECT WORLD, YOU HAVE EXPERIENCE IN MANY OF THE FOLLOWING
A tech lead or engineering manager role where you were a full-time enabler and force-multiplier (as opposed to one where you were also doing hands-on development work)
Cloud-based distributed systems
Many/most of the specific technologies we use:TypeScript, Node.js, React, React Native, Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, AWS, K8s, Terraform, PHP/Laravel
Wrangling messy legacy systems, and step-wise techniques for evolving and/or replacing them
SaaS products which serve the needs of both small businesses and consumers
Marketplace products which balance the needs of a variety of market participants while ensuring that all of them are getting a good deal
Helping your team work through uncertainty and ambiguity, and bringing clarity to complex, fast-changing situations
Identifying and navigating trade-offs between short-term and long-term needs, and between functional requirements, technical health, and business needs
Ensuring security, data privacy and compliance with Ontario legal requirements for accessibility, data privacy, payments and CASL
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