Tech Lead

Avenue Code; Canada; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A tech company in Canada is looking for a candidate who can lead engineering teams, emphasizing a collaborative work environment. Ideal candidates will have recent hands-on engineering experience and strong modern engineering habits. You will be expected to drive pragmatic decisions while prioritizing simplicity and collaboration. The role allows for flexibility in people management experience, as the focus is on coaching and improving team performance.

Qualifications

• Experience leading 5–10 engineers or equivalent.
• Must show recent hands-on involvement in engineering.
• Strong modern engineering habits including testing strategy.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate across squads and drive pragmatic decisions.
• Maintain a bias to simplicity and fast execution.
• Coach teams and raise the bar without command-and-control.

Job description

• Experience leading 5–10 engineers (or equivalent), collaborating across squads, and driving pragmatic decisions.
• Bias to simplicity and fast execution over big enterprise architecture and heavy design up front—while maintaining quality.
• Personality: calm, clear, direct, collaborative; coaches teams and raises the bar (not command-and-control). People management is a plus but not mandatory.
• Hands-on recently / tech areas
• Must show recent hands-on involvement (last 12–24 months): code reviews, architecture trade-offs, incident/postmortem leadership, performance/reliability improvements, integration work, etc.
• Strong modern engineering habits: testing strategy, observability, CI/CD mindset, maintainability.