Software Engineering Team Lead

Sage Recruiting Inc.; Canada; On-site; CAD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

RRSP matching

Paid vacation starting at 3 weeks

Extended health care

Dental

Life insurance

Job summary

Sage Recruiting Inc. is seeking a seasoned Team Lead for an AI-powered meeting intelligence product. You’ll stay hands-on most of the time, engineering complex architecture while guiding a growing team.

You’ll own backlog, run agile ceremonies, and ensure robust test automation and deployment practices across the stack. You are fluent in C#/.NET and TypeScript, comfortable with REST APIs, and can articulate trade-offs to leadership.

Qualifications

• Proven Team Lead experience with design ownership and reporting timelines.
• Hands-on experience with agentic AI workflows in development.
• Strong architecture and systems design instincts.
• Experience in an Agile environment.
• Solid foundation in C#/.NET (NET 10), TypeScript, and REST API design.
• CI/CD ownership and cloud deployment experience (AWS preferred).
• Unit and integration testing as a core practice.

Responsibilities

• Stay hands-on: 60–70% coding, architecture and system design while scaling the team.
• Own the backlog with the product owner: grooming, estimation and sprint planning.
• Hold regular 1:1s and check-ins, flag delays or blockers.
• Partner with the tester on coverage and test automation for AI features.
• Track tech debt and dependencies, communicate with product.
• Own high-level system architecture and end-to-end workflow design.
• Represent technical decisions in bi-weekly leadership meetings.
• Mentor and coach the team, including performance reviews.
• Build out team process as headcount doubles.

Skills

Team Lead

AI workflows

Architecture & design

Agile

C#/.NET

TypeScript

REST API

CI/CD

AWS

Testing (unit & integration)

Tools

Vue 3

Docker

GitHub Actions

Vite

Tailwind

Vitest

Playwright

Job description

Compensation: $125K to $150K + bonus + RRSP match

Sage Recruiting is partnering with a well-established, enterprise software company to find a Team Lead for their AI-powered meeting intelligence product, which turns relationship-manager and client conversations into structured, CRM-ready insight automatically. It's a real problem for anyone managing high-value client relationships: the context from a call either gets captured properly, or it quietly disappears. This product exists to make sure it's the former.

The team you'd be joining is the most AI-forward group inside the company. They build with AI wired directly into the development workflow itself: tickets tagged for AI get their own AI developer node spun up automatically, every code change goes through a dedicated AI reviewer, and the team is actively expanding what agentic workflows get to own. It's a rare combination, startup-style ownership and pace, inside a stable, well-established, and profitable company with real customers and real room to keep growing.

The Role

You'd be joining a small team of 4 that's about to double in size. Expect to stay genuinely hands-on: 60–70% of your time is coding, architecture, and system design, even as the team scales under you. The rest is running the team well, agile ceremonies, 1:1s, tech-debt tracking, and representing the team's technical decisions in leadership conversations.

What You'll Do

• Stay hands-on: ~60–70% of your time is coding, architecture and system design, even as the team scales.
• Own the backlog with the team's product owner: grooming, estimation, and sprint planning.
• Hold regular 1:1s and check‑ins, and flag delays or blockers before they become surprises.
• Partner with the team's tester on coverage and test automation, especially for AI-driven features.
• Track tech debt and flag dependencies approaching end of support, with a clear line open to product.
• Own high‑level system architecture and end‑to‑end workflow design, and explain both clearly to technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Represent the team's technical decisions in bi‑weekly leadership meetings
• Mentor and coach your team, including performance reviews.
• Build out team process and structure as headcount roughly doubles under you.

Who You Are

You're a proven technical lead who's already done this, not someone looking for their first shot at it. You're genuinely AI-native in how you build, comfortable owning architecture and system design, and you communicate risk and tradeoffs before they become someone else's surprise.

You Must Have

• Proven Team Lead experience: system design and architecture ownership, backlog management and reporting, engineering workflow optimization, presenting and defending timelines to leadership, performance conversations, coaching and mentoring engineers.
• Hands‑on experience with agentic AI workflows in development, not just using an AI chat assistant.
• Strong architecture and systems design instincts.
• Experience working in an Agile environment.
• Solid foundation in C#/.NET (.NET 10), TypeScript, and REST API design.
• Real CI/CD ownership.
• Cloud deployment experience (AWS preferred, but not mandatory).
• Unit and integration testing as second nature.

It's a Bonus If You Have

• Vue 3 specifically.
• MongoDB.
• Familiarity with other tools in the tech stack (outlined below)
• Experience navigating a team through active growth.
• Formal performance‑review experience (we'll support you here if you're newer to it).
• Startup background, full software development lifecycle ownership, self‑directed learning style.
• Frontend: Vue 3, TypeScript, Vite, Tailwind, RekaUI, Vitest, Playwright
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions
• Containerization: Docker

What Success Looks Like

• First 30 days: mostly learning, the product, the roadmap, internal processes and tooling, the domain (CRM, banking, messaging systems, spec-driven development). Leaning on your manager and the product owner to ramp.
• By 60 days: real, low‑risk production work, plus a clear read on your own gaps and a plan to close them.
• By 90 days: ramped to full capacity.
• 6–12 months in: full partnership with product on rollouts and optimization, owning release traceability, and moving into higher‑leverage work like optimizing client onboarding.

Why Join

• A real career ladder with clear steps and objectives: next stop is Staff‑level developer, then a fork into your choice of architecture or management.
• A genuinely AI‑native team, not AI-curious: you'd be living spec‑driven, agentic development day to day.
• A small, close‑knit team that supports each other.
• An opportunity to work at a startup pace, while still having the benefit of a stable, profitable, and growing company.
• $125K to $150K base + bonus + RRSP matching
• Paid vacation starting at 3 weeks.
• Extended health care, dental, and life insurance.