Engineering Manager - Product

Accountabilities

• • Lead, coach, develop, and grow a compact product engineering team while maintaining a collaborative, accountable, and high-performing culture.
  • Establish clear priorities, maintain alignment across the team, remove delivery blockers, and ensure consistent progress toward product goals.
  • Partner closely with Product and Design to translate customer needs and business priorities into focused engineering initiatives.
  • Guide the team in balancing delivery speed, technical quality, reliability, and long-term maintainability when making engineering tradeoffs.
  • Enable engineers to take ownership of features from initial concepts and technical planning through implementation, testing, and launch.
  • Establish and maintain practical standards for software design, testing, documentation, technical decisions, and engineering processes.
  • Support recruiting, onboarding, mentoring, and development of new engineering talent as the organization grows.
  • Strengthen collaboration across engineering, product, design, and leadership to ensure decisions are clear and execution remains coordinated.
  • Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, continuous improvement, and strong communication.
  • Help the team deliver dependable and performant product capabilities across spend management, data, visualization, and application infrastructure.

  Requirements

  • Proven experience managing and developing software engineering teams, ideally within a product-focused technology environment.
  • Demonstrated ability to build high-performing teams, develop engineers, and create an environment where people can do their best work.
  • Strong product mindset with the ability to understand customer needs, business priorities, and technical considerations when setting engineering direction.
  • Excellent organizational and communication skills, with the ability to maintain clarity across multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
  • Strong judgment when balancing velocity, engineering quality, technical debt, and customer impact.
  • Experience enabling engineers to own features and projects throughout the complete development lifecycle.
  • Comfortable operating in an early-stage or rapidly evolving environment where processes and priorities continue to develop.
  • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills and the ability to work effectively with Product, Design, and senior leadership.
  • Experience with or familiarity with modern software development environments such as TypeScript, React, Next.js, Tailwind, Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Terraform, GCP, dbt, and Dagster is beneficial but not mandatory.
  • Experience leading engineers within a young startup is a strong plus.
  • Exposure to FinOps, cloud infrastructure, cloud cost optimization, or data platforms is advantageous.
  • Hands-on experience with a comparable modern technology stack is also a plus.

  Benefits

  • Base salary of up to $300,000 CAD, plus additional compensation opportunities.
  • Fully remote work within a distributed engineering environment.
  • Opportunity to lead a small, high-leverage team with significant influence on product and engineering direction.
  • Meaningful ownership over team development, engineering standards, hiring, and delivery practices.
  • Close collaboration with Product, Design, and leadership.
  • Opportunity to work on products addressing complex cloud spending and optimization challenges.
  • High-autonomy environment that encourages thoughtful decision-making and continuous improvement.
  • Opportunity to shape team culture and engineering practices within a growing technology organization.