Senior Engineering Manager

Xplore Inc.; Markham; On-site; CAD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Xplore Inc. is Canada's fibre, 5G and satellite broadband company focused on improving rural connectivity.

Xplore is building a world-class fibre optic and 5G network to enable innovative broadband services for better every day rural living, for today and future generations. We are looking for an experienced Senior Engineering Manager to lead and grow a team of software developers as we embark on a company-wide transformation.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Go development experience
• Experience leading software engineering teams
• Comfortable in architecture discussions and code reviews
• Mentors engineers on design and implementation best practices

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple software developers across cross-functional Agile teams
• Drive AI adoption, modernization of applications, and integrations across Telecom domains
• Establish and evolve engineering practices for cloud-native delivery on Azure, including CI/CD, automated testing, observability, secure-by-design, and operational readiness
• Act as a technical leader by actively participating in solution design, architecture reviews, technical discussions, and engineering decision-making across teams
• Provide hands-on technical guidance to developers and technical leads, promoting software engineering best practices, coding standards, and quality-first delivery
• Conduct and oversee code reviews, ensuring maintainable, secure, scalable, and performant software solutions while fostering continuous learning and technical excellence
• Partner with developers and technical leads to resolve complex technical challenges and drive adoption of modern software engineering patterns and practices
• Practice servant leadership by supporting developers and technical leads through hiring, performance development, career paths, mentoring, and ensuring a culture of accountability, learning, and inclusion
• Collaborate with product owners, business leaders and partners on roadmap execution, capacity planning, dependency management, and risk/issue escalation across teams and vendors/partners
• Ensure solutions meet non-functional requirements including performance, security, resiliency, scalability

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Communication

Tools

Go (Golang)

Azure

CI/CD

Architecture reviews

Job description

Xplore Inc. is Canada's fibre, 5G and satellite broadband company for rural living. Xplore is committed to the relentless pursuit of an improved broadband experience for all Canadians. Xplore is building a world-class fibre optic and 5G wireless network to enable innovative broadband services for better every day rural living, for today and future generations.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Engineering Manager to lead and grow a team of software developers as we embark on a company-wide transformation. This is your chance to use cutting-edge tools to build software applications of the future, driving a technical vision while leading teams to deliver modern digital and operational capabilities across key Telecom domains such as Ordering, Provisioning, and Inventory.

This role requires a technically leader who remains close to the technology and engineering practices. The successful candidate must possess recent hands-on Go (Golang) development experience and be comfortable participating in architecture discussions, evaluating technical solutions, conducting code reviews, and mentoring engineers on software design and implementation best practices.

Key Responsibilities Include

• Lead multiple software developers across cross-functional Agile teams, ensuring consistent delivery of business value, predictable execution, and strong engineering discipline
• Drive AI adoption, modernization of applications, and integrations across Telecom domains (such as Ordering, Provisioning, and Inventory), aligning delivery with platform and enterprise architecture direction
• Establish and evolve engineering practices for cloud-native delivery on Azure, including CI/CD, automated testing, observability, secure-by-design, and operational readiness
• Act as a technical leader by actively participating in solution design, architecture reviews, technical discussions, and engineering decision-making across teams
• Provide hands-on technical guidance to developers and technical leads, promoting software engineering best practices, coding standards, and quality-first delivery
• Conduct and oversee code reviews, ensuring maintainable, secure, scalable, and performant software solutions while fostering continuous learning and technical excellence
• Partner with developers and technical leads to resolve complex technical challenges and drive adoption of modern software engineering patterns and practices
• Practice servant leadership by supporting developers and technical leads through hiring, performance development, career paths, mentoring, and ensuring a culture of accountability, learning, and inclusion
• Collaborate with product owners, business leaders and partners on roadmap execution, capacity planning, dependency management, and risk/issue escalation across teams and vendors/partners
• Ensure solutions meet non-functional requirements including performance, security, resiliency, scalability,