Engineering Manager

AlayaCare; Montreal; Hybrid; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in home healthcare software is seeking a technical and people-driven Engineering Manager. This role involves leading a development team, ensuring high standards of software delivery, and fostering a culture of accountability and continuous learning. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in software engineering and people management, contributing to innovative solutions that enhance patient care.

Benefits

Equity in a high-growth company

Flexible vacation policy

Comprehensive group benefits program

Parental leave top-up program

Paid Volunteer Time off Program

Qualifications

• 7+ years professional software engineering experience.
• 3+ years of people management experience in a technical industry.

Responsibilities

• Lead a development team in the Admission & Care Planning domain.
• Drive technical excellence and team development.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Agile

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

SQL

Job description

About AlayaCare:

At AlayaCare, we’re revolutionizing the way that home healthcare is delivered. Our leading cloud-based software allows our customers around the world to manage their employees, scheduling, billing, and enable better delivery of care. We're a fast-growing SaaS company with a team of 550+ team members across Canada, US, Australia, and Brazil. We aim to be the world leader in home healthcare software solutions as we empower providers to deliver better health outcomes to their patients and clients. We pride ourselves on our open and transparent culture, our bias for action, and being committed to a workplace where we can be ourselves.

About the Role:

We are seeking a technical and people-driven Engineering Manager to lead one of our development teams in the Admission & Care Planning domain of the AlayaCare Cloud application. This area is at the core of how our platform supports in-home clinical care—through tools that enable intake workflows, care plan creation, documentation of medical histories, medication tracking, complex form capture, and more.

You will be responsible for driving both technical excellence and team development, helping AlayaCare scale its product offerings while maintaining a high standard of reliability, performance, and impact for our customers.

A day in the Life:

People Leadership & Team Development

• Hire, coach, and retain top engineering talent, setting clear expectations and providing frequent, actionable feedback.
• Foster a high-trust culture of ownership, accountability, inclusion, and continuous learning.
• Conduct performance assessments and drive career development for team members.

Technical & Operational Excellence

• Own the software delivery lifecycle end-to-end, from technical design to deployment and operations.
• Lead by example in engineering standards, technical decisions, operational best practices, and quality ownership. Collaborate with product, design, and other engineering leaders to deliver solutions that are performant, secure, and scalable.
• Own the responsibility for quality regarding deliverables.
• Drive innovation, simplification, and technical excellence across your teams, providing hands-on guidance when needed.

Product and Project Ownership

• Define, prioritize, and execute the team’s roadmap in collaboration with Product Managers.
• Deliver impactful features with a strong focus on customer needs and operational excellence.
• Use data and metrics to measure progress, inform decisions, and drive continuous improvement.

Strategic Impact & Innovation

• Identify long-term technical opportunities, risks, and work proactively to address them.
• Drive innovation and experimentation, encouraging the team to explore and improve how we deliver care through software.
• Influence cross-team architecture and platform evolution, ensuring scalable, resilient systems

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner effectively with Customer Success, Sales Engineering, and other internal stakeholders to solve complex customer challenges.
• Act as the technical liaison for your product area in strategic conversations, balancing business needs with technical feasibility.

What you bring to the team :

• 7+ years professional software engineering experience.
• 3+ years of people management experience in a technical industry, including strong cross-functional leadership and organizational skills.
• Bachelor's Degree (B.Sc., B.Eng.) in Computer Science or Software Engineering.
• Have developed distributed web applications using SQL databases.
• Experience in implementing Scrum/Agile practices with engineering teams.
• You enjoyed an experience with start-ups or scale-ups.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, with an ability to express technical and business concepts in approachable terms.
• Strong knowledge of contemporary software development practices, and opinions on how to best implement them.
• English mandatory and French considered an asset.

Location and travel requirements:

AlayaCare supports a flexible hybrid working model, expecting that our employees have a regular in-office presence at their closest office location while offering flexibility for some remote work. Our team encourages in-person collaboration and with this, the preferred candidate location for this position would be within the Greater Montreal Area.

What Makes AlayaCare a Great Place to Work:

• Our products have a positive impact on the lives of countless care workers and care recipients
• Our company has been recognized by the Globe and Mail as one of Canada’s Top Growing Companies and as a recipient of Deloitte's Technology Fast 50TM program award for our rapid revenue growth, entrepreneurial spirit and bold innovation
• Equity in a well-funded, high-growth company
• Hybrid working models with beautiful and creative office spaces to enjoy in prime locations
• Virtual and onsite social events for employees centered around collaboration, learning, and fun, including DEIBA committee events, volunteer events, fireside chats, catered team lunches, celebrations, and team building activities
• Comprehensive group benefits program, including telemedicine
• Employee expense program for health, wellness, lifestyle, professional development and productivity-related expenses
• Parental leave top-up program
• Flexible vacation policy
• Company Wellness Day program for extra time to unwind
• Paid Volunteer Time off Program
• Career growth and learning and development opportunities
• An entrepreneurial culture of transparency, collaboration, and innovation
• Access to our employee perk program for discounts at various participating vendors

If this sounds like the perfect job for you, apply today. As well as joining a great culture and a market-leading company, you will be part of a team making a positive difference in the post-acute care market. If this isn’t the job for you, you may know someone who is a perfect fit. Please feel free to share this opportunity.

If you want to explore AlayaCare further, please visit our website www.alayacare.com .

Better outcomes, better belonging

Our team members are uniqu e—l ike our products and the customer groups that we service. AlayaCare employees bring different strengths, perspectives, and experiences to their roles and to our products that enable better care. We are committed to offering a people-centric culture where all employees belong and feel heard.

Having a pulse on our employee feedback is important to us as we aim to continuously evolve Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Accessibility within AlayaCare's policies, total rewards offerings, discussions, learning & development programs, and community partnerships. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration.

If you require accommodation as part of the recruitment and selection process, please reach out to [e-mail] . Please note, we do not accept unsolicited headhunter or agency resumes.

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