Remote Engineering Manager — Platform & API Leadership

Tucows; Canada; Remote; CAD 160,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Tucows Domains, the world’s largest wholesale domain registrar, is seeking a Manager, Engineering to lead a skilled engineering team delivering APIs, services, and platforms that power domain infrastructure.

The role combines technical leadership with people management, guiding architecture, day‑to‑day delivery, and collaboration with Product, Operations, QA, and Design to build reliable, scalable systems. Remote-first, Canada-based applicants encouraged.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field.
• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience with backend focus.
• 2+ years of engineering management experience with people management.
• Strong experience with Python, Go, or similar backend languages.
• Experience designing RESTful APIs using frameworks such as FastAPI or Gin.
• Experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL, including schema design.
• Experience designing, building, and operating highly available, reliable, and scalable services.
• Strong technical judgment and hands-on development experience.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience with Agile methodologies.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of engineers through recruiting, 1-on-1s, feedback, and performance management.
• Own day-to-day engineering execution, including planning, prioritization, delivery, release coordination, and blockers.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership through architecture discussions, code reviews, and production contributions.
• Lead design and architecture decisions for the team’s services, aligning with platform strategy.
• Translate business requirements into actionable technical plans while balancing roadmap, debt, and priorities.
• Oversee design and maintenance of services, APIs, databases, and integrations.
• Lead complex initiatives across multiple applications and cross‑team dependencies.
• Drive reliability, performance, security, observability, and maintainability improvements.
• Lead incident response and root cause analysis.
• Establish engineering practices including automated testing, CI/CD, documentation, and code quality.
• Leverage AI-assisted tools to improve productivity and code quality across the team.

Skills

Backend development

Python

Go

RESTful APIs

Distributed systems

Relational databases

Communication

Agile

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering/Computer Engineering

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

OpenAPI

Job description

Tucows Domains, the world’s largest wholesale domain registrar, is seeking a Manager, Engineering to lead a skilled engineering team delivering APIs, services, and platforms that power domain infrastructure.

The role combines technical leadership with people management, guiding architecture, day‑to‑day delivery, and collaboration with Product, Operations, QA, and Design to build reliable, scalable systems. Remote-first, Canada-based applicants encouraged.