Engineering Manager: Lead High-Impact Tech Teams

Société Financière Manuvie; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 113,000 - 163,000; Full time

Job summary

Société Financière Manuvie is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of full-stack engineers and provide technical direction across the software lifecycle. You will coach engineers, drive inclusive hiring, and foster a culture of innovation, learning, and accountability in a hybrid Toronto-based role.

You will shape architectural decisions, oversee delivery of complex initiatives, and collaborate with Product, Architecture, Cybersecurity, and Operations teams in a regulated enterprise

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in software engineering, including experience delivering enterprise applications.
• Demonstrated experience leading or mentoring engineering teams.
• Hands-on experience with modern application development using Java/Kotlin (Spring Boot), Python, C#/ .NET, TypeScript, React, Node.js.
• Experience with SDLC tools such as GitHub, Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, Maven, Snyk, SonarQube or similar.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and support a team of full-stack engineers, fostering an inclusive, collaborative, and respectful team environment.
• Support employee growth through regular feedback, development planning, and career progression opportunities.
• Contribute to building diverse, high-performing teams through inclusive hiring and talent development practices.
• Create a team culture that encourages innovation, learning, and accountability.
• Provide technical leadership across the software development lifecycle, including design, development, testing, deployment, and support.
• Contribute to architectural decisions, technical design reviews, and solution quality.
• Guide the team in building scalable, resilient, and maintainable applications using modern full-stack and cloud-enabled approaches.
• Support informed decision-making by evaluating trade-offs, risks, and technical options.
• Ensure solutions align with organizational architecture, security, and compliance standards.
• Lead delivery of complex initiatives, ensuring alignment with customer, business, and technology objectives.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners including Product, Architecture, Cybersecurity, and Operations teams.
• Support Agile practices to improve planning, predictability, and delivery outcomes.
• Use delivery and engineering metrics to continuously improve team effectiveness, quality, and throughput.
• Maintain oversight of application health, lifecycle management, and production support activities.
• Promote operational excellence, including reliability, monitoring, and issue resolution practices.

Skills

People leadership

Team development

Technical leadership

Delivery leadership

Full-stack engineering

Cloud-enabled

Agile practices

Mentoring

Communication

Architectural review

Tools

GitHub

Jira

Confluence

Jenkins

Maven

Snyk

SonarQube

Job description

Société Financière Manuvie is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of full-stack engineers and provide technical direction across the software lifecycle. You will coach engineers, drive inclusive hiring, and foster a culture of innovation, learning, and accountability in a hybrid Toronto-based role.

You will shape architectural decisions, oversee delivery of complex initiatives, and collaborate with Product, Architecture, Cybersecurity, and Operations teams in a regulated enterprise