Manager, Engineering

Canon Medical Informatics

$159K — $207K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience
  • 7+ years of professional software development experience
  • 2+ years of experience in team leadership or management
  • Strong understanding of software engineering best practices and Agile methodologies
  • Ability to guide technical trade-offs without hands-on coding
  • Strong communication and organizational skills

Responsibilities

  • Own delivery commitments for the team and ensure predictable execution against quarterly plans
  • Translate roadmap priorities into executable plans with clear milestones
  • Manage scope, capacity, and risk trade-offs to protect delivery commitments
  • Guide team-level technical decisions and ensure sound engineering trade-offs
  • Balance feature delivery with technical debt reduction and quality investments
  • Conduct regular one-on-one meetings, performance reviews, and feedback conversations
  • Partner with Product Management, Architecture, Quality, and other stakeholders to align on priorities

Benefits

  • Drive improvements in automation, reliability, and operational practices
  • Promote continuous improvement in team processes and workflows
  • Support career development, skill growth, and engagement for team members
  • Lead hiring, onboarding, and staffing decisions for the team
Full Job Description
POSITION OVERVIEW

Are you ready to lead, inspire, and drive impact? We're seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to guide a dynamic agile software engineering team. In this role, you'll own delivery outcomes, champion team performance, and nurture ongoing technical excellence.

As an Engineering Manager, you'll be at the heart of people leadership-empowering your team, fostering growth, and ensuring exceptional software quality. You'll collaborate closely with Product Management, Architecture, Quality, and other key partners to turn roadmap priorities into seamless, predictable results. Along the way, you'll uphold high engineering standards and ensure compliance with our Quality Management System (QMS).

If you thrive on execution accountability, building high-performing teams, and making a tangible difference in software quality, we want to hear from you!

RESPONSIBILITIES

Delivery Ownership
  • Own delivery commitments for the team and ensure predictable execution against quarterly plans
  • Translate roadmap priorities into executable plans with clear milestones
  • Manage scope, capacity, and risk trade-offs to protect delivery commitments

Technical Leadership
  • Guide team-level technical decisions and ensure sound engineering trade-offs
  • Balance feature delivery with technical debt reduction and quality investments
  • Ensure long-term technical health of the team's codebase and systems

People Leadership & Development
  • Conduct regular one-on-one meetings, performance reviews, and feedback conversations
  • Support career development, skill growth, and engagement for team members
  • Lead hiring, onboarding, and staffing decisions for the team

Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Partner with Product Management, Architecture, Quality, and other stakeholders to align on priorities
  • Manage trade-offs between scope, schedule, quality, and capacity
  • Resolve cross-functional issues that impact team delivery

Quality & Operational Excellence
  • Ensure adherence to engineering standards and QMS requirements
  • Drive improvements in automation, reliability, and operational practices
  • Promote continuous improvement in team processes and workflows

REQUIRED EDUCATION AND SKILLS

Required
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience
  • 7+ years of professional software development experience
  • 2+ years of experience in team leadership or people management
  • Strong understanding of software engineering best practices and Agile delivery methodologies
  • Ability to guide technical trade-offs without requiring hands-on coding
  • Strong communication and organizational skills

Preferred
  • Experience managing software engineers in a regulated or quality-managed environment (e.g., healthcare, medical devices)
  • Familiarity with CI/CD practices and modern software development workflows
  • Demonstrated success leading hiring, onboarding, and performance management processes

COMPENSATION

$159,520 - $207,380/year base salary, dependent on experience

In alignment with applicable pay transparency legislation, we disclose the full salary range for this position. Our compensation philosophy is designed to ensure fair and equitable pay practices that are both market-competitive and internally consistent. Salary ranges are established using external market data and are intended to reflect the full scope of experience, skills, and proficiency levels associated with the role.

As part of our standard hiring practice, we aim extend offers at or near the midpoint of the range for candidates who are fully qualified and demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and experience required to perform the role independently and effectively. Final compensation decisions may vary based on individual qualifications, experience, and other job-related factors, while remaining within the established range.

JOB COMPETENCIES
  • Leadership - Leads through change and adversity, makes the tough call when needed, builds consensus when appropriate, motivates and encourages others.
  • People Development - provides feedback and coaching, rewards hard work and risk taking, takes mentoring role, challenges and develops employees, accepts mistakes, provides visibility/opportunity.
  • Analytical Skills - Interprets and digests complex information, applies logic and sound critical thinking to astutely evaluate information, identifies flaws in reasoning but integrates good judgment in presenting findings, creates insightful and comprehensible reports, devises improvements or corrections to processes/procedures/plans based on strong analytical findings.
  • Creativity/Innovation - Generates new ideas, challenges the status quo, takes risks, supports change, encourages innovation, solves problems creatively.
  • Quality Work - Is attentive to detail and accuracy, is committed to excellence, looks for improvements continuously, monitors quality levels, finds root cause of quality problems, owns/acts on quality problems.
  • Sense of Urgency - Prioritizes well, shows energy, reacts to opportunities, instills urgency in others, meets deadlines.
  • Teamwork - Meets all team deadlines and responsibilities, listens to others and values opinions, helps team leader to meet goals, welcomes newcomers and promotes a team atmosphere.

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