Senior Engineering Manager – AI-Driven Platform & Payments

Sage Recruiting Inc.; Toronto; On-site; CAD 170,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

15% annual bonus

Job summary

Sage Recruiting Inc. in Toronto is seeking a Senior Manager, Software Engineering to lead multiple product and platform teams across the Financial Management growth segment.

You will set direction, own outcomes, and drive measurable gains in velocity, quality, and reliability, while embedding AI and automation into daily execution. This role requires strong leadership, hands-on engineering presence, and a track record of delivering enterprise software at scale in a fast-growing environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years designing and building enterprise software.
• 3+ years leading engineering teams to ship features and enhancements; managing multiple teams preferred.
• Track record recruiting, coaching, and developing high-performing technical teams.
• Experience building Payments or Financial products preferred.
• Bachelor's in computer science, MIS, or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop high-performing teams to deliver roadmap outcomes; hire, coach, and set clear performance expectations.
• Set technical direction and make prioritization and architecture decisions that reduce tech debt and preserve long-term velocity.
• Stay hands-on: debug customer issues, ship small fixes, and improve operational readiness.
• Own outcomes end-to-end: define success metrics, inspect them regularly, and drive course corrections to improve predictability, cycle time, quality, and reliability.
• Give feedback on product and technical specs; coach ICs and Managers through tradeoffs to reach the right decisions.
• Raise the bar on quality: shift-left testing, enforce Definition of Done, build observability, and lead incident response and RCAs to improve MTTR.

Skills

Team leadership

Enterprise software

SDLC knowledge

CI/CD

Observability

AI automation

Education

Bachelor's in CS or MIS

Tools

Jira

Confluence

GCP

Kubernetes

Git

Apigee

Job description

Sage Recruiting Inc. in Toronto is seeking a Senior Manager, Software Engineering to lead multiple product and platform teams across the Financial Management growth segment.

You will set direction, own outcomes, and drive measurable gains in velocity, quality, and reliability, while embedding AI and automation into daily execution. This role requires strong leadership, hands-on engineering presence, and a track record of delivering enterprise software at scale in a fast-growing environment.