Engineering Manager in Canada Creek, Nova Scotia at Jobgether

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

This role offers the opportunity to lead experienced engineering teams building secure, scalable, and reliable financial technology solutions.
You will guide engineers working on backend platforms, compliance products, and infrastructure that support critical banking operations.
The position combines technical leadership, people management, and hands-on collaboration to drive high-quality engineering outcomes.
You will play a key role in transforming complex business challenges into clear technical strategies and execution plans.
Working in a remote-first environment, you will partner with product, compliance, and engineering teams to deliver impactful platform capabilities.
This is an ideal opportunity for an engineering leader who enjoys ownership, solving ambiguous problems, and building systems where reliability and trust are essential.

As an Engineering Manager, you will lead and support high-performing engineering teams responsible for building backend systems, platform capabilities, and customer-facing solutions in a regulated technology environment. You will combine strong technical judgment with effective leadership to improve execution, team performance, and engineering quality.

• Lead, mentor, and develop engineers through coaching, performance feedback, hiring support, and day-to-day prioritization.
• Translate complex and ambiguous challenges into clear execution plans aligned with product, engineering, and business objectives.
• Partner closely with engineers on architecture decisions, technical tradeoffs, and scalable solutions across backend and platform systems.
• Maintain strong technical involvement by reviewing approaches, removing blockers, and contributing to implementation when valuable.
• Support the development of reliable systems, including event-driven services, infrastructure components, operational workflows, internal tools, and data-intensive applications.
• Improve engineering processes by strengthening execution practices, prioritization, documentation, and delivery quality.
• Collaborate with product, compliance, and engineering stakeholders to identify risks and ensure solutions meet business and operational requirements.
• Help teams balance feature delivery with platform improvements, maintenance, reliability initiatives, and long-term technical investments.
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, continuous improvement, and technical excellence.

The ideal candidate is an experienced engineering leader with a strong software development background and proven ability to manage teams building complex, production-grade systems. You should be comfortable operating in environments where reliability, security, compliance, and technical decision-making are critical.

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 3+ years of direct engineering management experience, including coaching, performance management, and involvement in hiring.
• Proven experience leading backend or platform engineering teams working on complex operational systems.
• Strong proficiency in Go and experience building and maintaining production software.
• Ability to contribute to architecture discussions, evaluate technical decisions, and engage deeply with engineering teams.
• Experience turning unclear problems into structured plans, priorities, and actionable solutions.
• Strong judgment around technical scope, sequencing, tradeoffs, and risk management.
• Demonstrated ownership of team outcomes and ability to improve engineering effectiveness.
• Experience with fintech, banking, infrastructure, developer platforms, or other regulated environments is highly preferred.
• Familiarity with technologies such as cloud platforms, databases, APIs, Kubernetes, infrastructure tooling, or event-driven architectures is a plus.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively across technical and non-technical teams.

• Competitive compensation based on location, with Canada salary range of approximately CA$128,000 – CA$178,000.
• Equity participation through a stock options program.
• Fully remote work environment for employees based in Canada and the United States.
• 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
• Extended healthcare benefits and annual health spending support for Canadian employees.
• Retirement benefits including RRSP contributions for Canadian employees.
• Mental health resources and wellness support.
• Unlimited paid time off.
• Generous paid parental leave program.
• Home office setup stipend.
• Opportunity to make a significant impact within an early-stage, fast-growing technology company.
• Collaboration with a talented and passionate engineering team.