Engineering Manager, App Platform

GlossGenius; Ontario; Hybrid; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A high-growth tech startup in Canada is seeking an Engineering Manager for their App Platform team. This role involves leading software engineers, defining technical strategies, and fostering team growth. Candidates should have extensive software engineering experience and strong leadership skills, emphasizing collaboration and data-driven decision-making. The company offers competitive health benefits, flexible PTO, and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

Flexible PTO

Competitive health & dental insurance

Generous parental leave

Retirement Savings Plan

Professional Development stipend

Team Bonding opportunities

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years as a people manager.
• Demonstrated success in collaborating with teams to deliver new products.
• Strong business acumen with customer-centric approach.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of senior and staff engineers.
• Define long-term technical and product strategy.
• Establish engineering processes focused on quality.

Skills

Software engineering experience

Team leadership

Collaboration with product managers

Data analytics

Technical understanding

Excellent communication skills

Job description

GlossGenius is building an ecosystem enabling entrepreneurs to succeed. We empower small business owners to focus on being creators, not admins, by offering a range of business management tools including booking and scheduling, marketing, analytics, payment processing and much more.

Over 90,000 small business owners have chosen to rely on GlossGenius every day to run their entire set of business operations. Joining its powerful, intuitive platform with its vibrant, distinguished brand, GlossGenius is the ideal combination of a fintech, SMB software, and consumer company all in one.

About the Role

GlossGenius has been empowering independent entrepreneurs in the beauty and wellness space to pursue their dreams and successfully grow their businesses. As we continue to scale, we’re strengthening our App Platform team. This team is foundational to everything we build — from enabling developer velocity to ensuring mobile reliability at scale.

As an Engineering Manager of the App Platform team, you will be supporting the full spectrum of application development at GlossGenius. We span backend, frontend, and mobile stacks, not as owners of features but as enablers of scalable, consistent, and high-quality engineering. Our scope includes frameworks, shared services, tooling, and release infrastructure, making it clear that we are building the platform that product teams rely on to deliver value. This name reinforces our mission to provide the foundation that helps every team move faster, build better, and scale with confidence.

You will report to the VP of Engineering and can be based remotely in the Greater Toronto Area.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead and develop a team of senior and staff engineers, understanding their skills and fostering their professional growth to achieve daily tasks and long-term career goals.
• Work closely with product managers, designers, and other teams to define the long-term technical and product strategy and the necessary steps for its realization.
• Prioritize, plan, and ensure team and cross-functional alignment to execute key initiatives and achieve business results.
• Establish and implement effective engineering processes focused on quality and progress in key product initiatives.
• Collaborate with recruiting to build and retain a high-performing engineering team by attracting top talent.

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years as a people manager.
• Led two or more engineering pods with a proven ability to lead teams through technical leads or people managers.
• Demonstrated success in collaborating with product/program managers, designers, and peers to develop plans, manage expectations, and deliver new products and features (0 to 1).
• Strong business acumen and customer-centric approach, supported by data analytics skills.
• Solid technical understanding, capable of guiding technical discussions despite this being a non-coding role.
• Experience in recruiting and building high-performing teams for future GlossGenius products.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Flexible PTO
• Competitive health & dental insurance options, with premiums covered by GG
• Generous, fully-paid parental leave policy
• Retirement Savings Plan
• Professional Development - employees receive a yearly stipend for approved learning and educational-related expenses
• Home office support
• Team Bonding opportunities - as a distributed team, being able to build meaningful bonds both virtually and in person is incredibly important to us! We are constantly evaluating how we accomplish this and currently, teams are given opportunities to gather in person throughout the year

At GlossGenius, we celebrate our differences and are committed to creating a workplace where all employees feel supported and empowered to do their best work. We believe this benefits not only our employees but our product, customers, and community as well. GlossGenius is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.

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