Engineering Manager - Verify: Pipeline Execution

Working Nomads; Canada; Remote; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Canada is seeking an experienced manager to oversee a team working on continuous integration products. The ideal candidate will possess strong people management skills, technical credibility with technologies like Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL, and a solid understanding of CI/CD processes. Join us to lead a passionate team dedicated to making software development easier and more efficient. Please note that we welcome applications from diverse candidates, even if they don't meet every requirement.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience as a People Manager.
• Knowledge of CI/CD and experience with CI systems is a bonus.
• Understanding of how SaaS applications are built.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the Product Manager on project planning.
• Provide guidance on technical contributions and architecture.
• Generate and implement process improvements for team collaboration.

Skills

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Experience with CI/CD

Technical credibility with Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL

People management experience

Job description

Collaborate with the Product Manager to help inform planning and author project plans for epics

Work with other team members (also known as Stable Counterparts), such as Product, UX and Support Engineering to ensure the team direction is clear and the team is delivering value aligned with business needs

Provide guidance and coaching to team members on technical contributions, product architecture, and other areas.

Maintain empathy for the team by keeping awareness of engineering processes and practices. Examples might be: evaluating individual workflow during one on ones, conducting code reviews, or working on non-critical path bugs and/or features.

Actively seek and hire globally-distributed talent.

Contribute to the sense of psychological safety on your team.

Generate and implement process improvements that improve how the team works together and other team processes.

Foster technical decision making on the team, but make final decisions when necessary.

Knowledge of CI/CD. Bonus points if you have hands-on experience with CI systems.

Experience automatic and scaling systems, or have knowledge of performance and reliability challenges at scale

Experience improving database performance and knows where to look to understand where potential bottlenecks lie.

Technical credibility: The team works in Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL and with GraphQL. While we don't require previous development experience in these areas, it's helpful to understand how SaaS applications are built, and discuss technical rationale and reasoning with your direct reports.

Exquisite brokering skills: you'll need to regularly achieve consensus amongst departments

Demonstrated experience as a People Manager

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

You share our values , and work in accordance with those values

About the team

Pipeline Execution started as the core CI team when the Verify stage first formed. The team is made up of 8 engineers, across frontend and backend specialties. The team's mission is to make software development easier, faster, and more reliable by creating and supporting a Continuous Integration product that is performant, scalable, and lovable.

The Verify:Pipeline Execution Group is focused on supporting the functionality with respect to Continuous Integration . A key focus for the Pipeline Execution group is delivering features that achieve the outcome we track in our performance indicator.

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.

Collaborate with the Product Manager to help inform planning and author project plans for epics

Work with other team members (also known as Stable Counterparts), such as Product, UX and Support Engineering to ensure the team direction is clear and the team is delivering value aligned with business needs

Provide guidance and coaching to team members on technical contributions, product architecture, and other areas.

Maintain empathy for the team by keeping awareness of engineering processes and practices. Examples might be: evaluating individual workflow during one on ones, conducting code reviews, or working on non-critical path bugs and/or features.

Actively seek and hire globally-distributed talent.

Contribute to the sense of psychological safety on your team.

Generate and implement process improvements that improve how the team works together and other team processes.

Foster technical decision making on the team, but make final decisions when necessary.

Knowledge of CI/CD. Bonus points if you have hands-on experience with CI systems.

Experience automatic and scaling systems, or have knowledge of performance and reliability challenges at scale

Experience improving database performance and knows where to look to understand where potential bottlenecks lie.

Technical credibility: The team works in Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL and with GraphQL. While we don't require previous development experience in these areas, it's helpful to understand how SaaS applications are built, and discuss technical rationale and reasoning with your direct reports.

Exquisite brokering skills: you'll need to regularly achieve consensus amongst departments

Demonstrated experience as a People Manager

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

You share our values , and work in accordance with those values

About the team

Pipeline Execution started as the core CI team when the Verify stage first formed. The team is made up of 8 engineers, across frontend and backend specialties. The team's mission is to make software development easier, faster, and more reliable by creating and supporting a Continuous Integration product that is performant, scalable, and lovable.

The Verify:Pipeline Execution Group is focused on supporting the functionality with respect to Continuous Integration . A key focus for the Pipeline Execution group is delivering features that achieve the outcome we track in our performance indicator.

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.