Engineering Manager, Platform
Department: Engineering
Employment Type: Permanent
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Remote Canada, Remote
As the Engineering Manager, you will:
- Your day-to-day will be 70% management, 30% hands-on engineering work.
- You’ll partner closely with Staff engineers and make technical decisions together.
- You’ll set team priorities that respect platform stability while supporting Product development teams.
- You’ll define and track SLOs for platform stability and developer velocity, ensuring the internal 'customer' (our product engineers) can ship code safely and quickly.
- You’ll be accountable for your team’s delivery and outcomes.
- You’ll manage engineers through coaching, mentoring, feedback, and hands-on career development.
- You’ll work with other engineering leaders to continuously improve and nurture our culture, practices, and employee well-being.
- You’ll facilitate collaboration among key stakeholders and cross-functional teams to align on the right goals and support the company's mission.
- You’ll help your team achieve technical excellence by taking a hands-on approach.
- You’ll ensure your teams maintain high standards for quality and security.
- PHP 8.x with Laravel
- Typescript, React, and Redux
- GCP Cloud SQL (MySQL), BigQuery, and Redis
- GCP Kubernetes, Cloud Tasks and PubSub
What You'll Bring:
- You have held a hands-on Engineering Manager role for at least 2 years, managing infrastructure and platform engineering teams.
- You have deep experience with Cloud hosting environments (GCP is a nice-to-have!), CI/CD automation, and observability (we use Grafana and Sentry). Familiarity with PHP/Laravel environments is a significant plus.
- Prior to management, you held a Senior+ role in DevOps, Site Reliability, or Backend Engineering with a heavy focus on infrastructure.
- You have experience managing in a remote or hybrid environment.
- You are outcome-oriented and take full accountability for your team’s delivery.
- You communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical team members and stakeholders.
- You are skilled at prioritizing incoming requests and protecting your engineers’ focus and commitments.
- You stay current with technological changes and set a high standard for yourself and your team
Benefits, Compensation & Perks
Beyond salary, we invest in your growth, well-being, and long-term success through:
- Stock options and variable compensation
- 4 weeks vacation, 5 personal days, and your birthday off (we want to celebrate with you!)
- Comprehensive benefits from day one, plus an annual HSA/WSA spending account
- RRSP matching to support your future
- Annual learning and development budget, plus a book budget
- Parental leave top-ups
- & many more!!
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