Engineering Manager – Product Engineering
Our client is building a modern digital platform designed to make complex customer journeys simpler, faster, and more intuitive.
The team operates with a product-led, startup mindset inside a larger enterprise environment. The focus is on moving quickly, challenging the status quo, and building scalable digital experiences using modern engineering practices, AI, and automation.
As Engineering Manager, you’ll own the performance and delivery of a single engineering squad. This is a hands-on leadership role where you’ll balance technical contribution with people management, delivery accountability, and close partnership with Product and Design.
What You’ll Do
- Lead sprint execution and delivery commitments for your squad
- Translate product requirements into clear, executable engineering work
- Manage and develop engineers, including coaching, feedback, performance, and career growth
- Maintain strong engineering standards and code quality
- Stay technically involved through architecture discussions, code reviews, and hands-on contribution when needed
- Remove blockers and manage dependencies across teams
- Partner closely with Product and Design to shape scope and priorities
- Balance technical debt with feature delivery
- Help the team increase delivery speed without sacrificing quality
- Build a healthy, accountable, high-performing engineering culture
What Success Looks Like
Your team delivers predictably and at a strong pace. Engineers are engaged and developing. Code quality remains high, stakeholders trust the team’s commitments, and the squad consistently ships work that drives measurable business outcomes.
Who You Are
- An experienced engineer who has moved into people leadership, or an Engineering Manager from a product-focused technology environment
- Comfortable working with a startup mindset while operating within a larger, regulated organization
- Able to balance hands-on technical work with people leadership
- Strong in Agile delivery, sprint planning, estimation, and execution
- Comfortable having direct conversations around performance and accountability
- Able to move easily between technical discussions, 1:1s, delivery management, and stakeholder conversations
- Focused on improving speed of delivery and challenging existing ways of working
What You Bring
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
- 2+ years in an Engineering Manager, Technical Lead, or equivalent leadership role
- Experience owning the end-to-end delivery and health of a software engineering team
- Strong hands-on experience with modern JavaScript technologies, backend services, APIs, microservices, and enterprise integrations
- Experience with modern front-end frameworks such as React is an asset
- Strong understanding of architecture, code quality, design reviews, and engineering best practices
- Experience hiring, onboarding, coaching, and developing engineers
- Proven ability to partner with Product and Design teams
- Experience improving delivery predictability, team velocity, and engineering processes
Work Style
This is a hybrid role, with team members expected in the office approximately 1–2 days per week.
