Engineering Manager, Platform

Description

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

• 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!!