Manager, Engineering - DevOps/Platform Architectural Engineering

Wavelo, Inc.; Canada; Remote; CAD 165,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Wavelo, a Tucows subsidiary, seeks a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead the Platform Foundations team. You will define engineering standards, guide architectural decisions, and stay close to code while shaping reliability and developer experience across backend services and event-driven infrastructure.

The role emphasizes leadership of a small, senior engineering group, with a strong focus on AI-first development, observability, and collaboration with Operations and SRE for reliability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience with hands-on Golang or similar languages.
• Deep experience with event-driven architectures (Kafka, NATS) and async systems.
• Background in platform or infrastructure engineering with shared internal platforms.
• Experience defining engineering standards (RFCs/ADRs/architecture reviews).
• Strong DevOps sense: CI/CD, containerization, Kubernetes, cloud-native infrastructure.
• Experience mentoring engineers and growing people through the work.
• Comfortable working with ambiguity and incomplete requirements.

Responsibilities

• Partner with leadership to evolve foundational architecture for a cloud-native, event-driven telecom platform.
• Own developer experience: tooling, CI pipeline performance, dependency management, inner‑source models.
• Govern shared UI components and design system practices across teams?
• Establish and maintain engineering standards: RFCs, ADRs, architecture reviews.
• Collaborate with Operations and SRE to define observability standards and reliability practices.
• Champion AI‑first development across tooling and workflows.
• Manage and develop a small team of senior engineers.

Skills

Golang backend

Event-driven architecture

Platform infra engineering

RFCs/ADRs/Architecture reviews

DevOps: CI/CD, Kubernetes

Mentoring engineers

Ambiguity tolerance

Tools

Kafka

NATS

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Wavelo is a SaaS business on a mission to make telecoms a breeze.

We provide flexible software that modernizes how communication service providers (CSPs) do business, helping them drive more value, focus on customer experience, and scale their operations faster.

As part of Tucows (NASDAQ:TCX, TSX:TC)—one of the world’s largest Internet services companies—Wavelo is backed by outstanding resources and talent. We embrace a people-first philosophy that is rooted in respect, trust, and flexibility. We believe that whatever works for our employees is what works best for us. It’s also why the majority of our roles are remote-first, meaning you can work from anywhere you can connect to the Internet!

The work we do genuinely changes lives. If this sounds exciting, we’d love to hear from you!

About the Role

We're looking for a hands‑on Engineering Manager to lead our Platform Foundations team — a small, high‑leverage group responsible for defining the engineering standards and foundational components that the entire platform is built on. This role is primarily technical — you'll stay close to the code and architecture while providing the leadership and direction a senior team needs to do its best work.

You'll work across backend services, DevOps practices, and event‑driven infrastructure to establish patterns the rest of engineering depends on. You'll own the developer experience and component standards that every team builds on top of, and work closely with our Operations and SRE teams to align on reliability practices and observability standards.

This role is fully remote for applicants based in Canada.

What You'll Do

• Partner with engineering leadership to evolve and standardize the foundational architecture for a cloud-native, event-driven telecom platform — identifying areas for improvement and driving safe, incremental modernization alongside active development
• Own developer experience: build tooling, CI pipeline performance, dependency management, and inner‑source contribution models across a shared monorepo
• Govern shared UI component standards and design system practices used across teams
• Establish and maintain engineering standards: RFCs, ADRs, architecture reviews
• Partner closely with Operations and SRE to define observability standards (tracing, logging, metrics), SLO/SLI frameworks, and reliability practices
• Champion AI‑first development practices across tooling, workflows, and culture
• Manage and develop a small, established team of senior engineers

What You Bring

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience, with hands‑on proficiency in Golang or similar languages
• Deep experience with event-driven and async architectures — Kafka, NATS, or comparable systems
• Background in platform or infrastructure engineering: you've built shared internal platforms, not just product features
• Experience defining engineering standards at an org level — RFCs, ADRs, or architecture review processes
• Strong DevOps sensibility: CI/CD, containerization, Kubernetes, cloud-native infrastructure
• Experience managing or mentoring engineers, with a bias toward growing people through the work
• Comfortable working with ambiguity and incomplete requirements

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with supporting & delivering frontend development and component/design systems — enough to govern a shared UI library
• Experience in telecom, BSS/OSS, or similarly complex domain platforms

What We Value

• AI-first mindset: you actively use AI tooling and advocate for it in your team's workflow
• Architectural depth: you can zoom out to the system and zoom in to the implementation
• Low ego, high ownership: you'll write code and stay close to the work alongside your team
• Build in the open: we use information as a bridge, not a moat — you share context broadly, write things down, and bring people along rather than gatekeeping

The base salary range for this position is $165,000 – $175,000 CAD for Canadian residents. Other countries will differ. Range may vary on a number of factors including, but not limited to: location, experience and qualifications. Tucows believes in a total rewards offering that includes fair compensation and generous benefits. Learn more about Tucows Benefits.

Want to know more about what we stand for? At Wavelo and Tucows we care about protecting the open Internet, narrowing the digital divide, and supporting fairness and equality.

We also know that diversity drives innovation. We are committed to inclusion across race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability status. We celebrate multiple approaches and diverse points of view.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation.

We use AI-enabled tools throughout our recruitment process to help us work more efficiently and consistently. These tools support our hiring teams by organizing and reviewing information, while final hiring decisions are always made by people.

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Learn more about Tucows, our businesses, culture and employee benefits on our site here.