Engineering Manager, Recording Platform 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, Recording Platform based in Canada.

This role offers the opportunity to lead a critical engineering domain within an innovative AI-powered software environment.
You will guide a talented team responsible for building reliable recording experiences across desktop, mobile, and real-time media platforms.
As a player-coach leader, you will combine technical expertise, people development, and strategic decision-making to drive meaningful impact.
You will shape the future of a foundational product area by improving scalability, reliability, and user experience.
Working closely with engineering, product, design, and operations teams, you will turn complex technical challenges into elegant solutions.
This position is ideal for an experienced engineering leader who enjoys building high-performing teams while staying close to the technology.

The Engineering Manager, Recording Platform will lead the development and evolution of a complex technical platform while supporting engineers’ growth and ensuring operational excellence. This role combines team leadership, technical guidance, and hands-on engineering contributions to deliver reliable and impactful user experiences.

• Lead and grow the engineering team responsible for desktop applications, recording experiences, mobile capabilities, and real-time audio and video infrastructure.
• Coach, mentor, and develop engineers while fostering technical ownership, collaboration, and knowledge sharing across the team.
• Establish technical direction and priorities for the recording platform, balancing user-facing improvements with long-term infrastructure investments.
• Improve platform reliability through enhanced observability, tooling, incident response processes, and operational best practices.
• Remain technically involved by contributing production code, supporting complex debugging efforts, reviewing architecture decisions, and exploring new technical approaches.
• Guide the adoption of AI-assisted development tools and workflows to improve engineering productivity while maintaining high-quality standards.
• Partner with Product, Design, SRE, and engineering leadership teams to define priorities, solve complex problems, and deliver measurable outcomes.
• Use customer feedback and support insights to influence product improvements and platform evolution.
• Drive initiatives around system scalability, performance, and reliability across multiple devices, operating systems, and integrations.
• Support future platform innovation, including deeper operating-system integrations, mobile enhancements, and intelligent on-device capabilities.

The ideal candidate is an experienced engineering leader with a strong software development background and a passion for building reliable systems and high-performing teams.

• 7+ years of software engineering experience with a proven track record delivering production software.
• 2+ years of experience managing and developing software engineering teams.
• Strong desire to remain technically hands-on and contribute directly to engineering challenges.
• Experience leading teams responsible for mission-critical or customer-facing systems.
• Demonstrated ability to improve system reliability, monitoring, scalability, and operational processes.
• Strong technical judgment when balancing product delivery, technical debt, user needs, and platform investments.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, establish direction, and drive alignment across multiple teams.
• Experience developing innovative AI-assisted engineering workflows, tools, or processes that improve development efficiency.
• Experience with systems where performance, latency, availability, or real-time behavior significantly impact user experience.
• Proven ability to hire, mentor, and grow engineers with diverse technical expertise.
• Excellent communication skills with engineers, product teams, leadership, and other stakeholders.
• Passion for creating both exceptional technology and a collaborative engineering culture.

Nice-to-have qualifications include:

• Experience building desktop applications, particularly with Electron.
• Background in real-time media systems, audio/video pipelines, WebRTC, or similar technologies.
• Experience supporting software across multiple operating systems, devices, and third-party integrations.
• Experience leading engineering teams through periods of rapid growth or major technical transformation.

• Fully remote work model for candidates based in Canada.
• Flexible collaboration environment with core working hours aligned to team needs.
• Optional access to office spaces in select Canadian locations.
• Opportunity to work on an impactful AI-powered product used by organizations worldwide.
• High level of ownership and influence over a foundational technology platform.
• Collaborative culture focused on curiosity, innovation, and solving meaningful problems.
• Opportunities to grow teams, shape engineering practices, and influence product direction.
• Inclusive workplace committed to diversity, equity, and equal opportunity.
• Supportive environment that values both technical excellence and team well-being.