Remote Engineering Manager — Lead Platform & Teams

Tucows; United States; Remote; USD 160,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Tucows Domains is seeking a Manager, Engineering to lead a highly skilled team responsible for designing, building, and maintaining services, databases, and APIs behind Tucows Domains platforms. This is a hands-on leadership role combining technical leadership, people management, and delivery execution.

You will guide architecture and technical decisions, own day-to-day delivery, and partner with Product, Operations, QA, and Design to deliver reliable, scalable systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 6+ years of professional software engineering with backend focus and production apps.
• 2+ years in engineering management with direct people management.
• Strong experience with Python, Go, or similar backend languages.
• Experience designing RESTful APIs using FastAPI or Gin.
• Experience with PostgreSQL and schema design.
• Building and operating highly available, scalable services.
• Hands-on software development and incident resolution experience.
• Experience leading distributed engineering teams and cross‑team collaboration.
• Experience with Agile methodologies, including Scrum or Kanban.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools and secure practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of engineers through hiring, reviews, and career growth.
• Own day‑to‑day engineering delivery, planning, releases, and blockers.
• Provide hands‑on technical leadership through architecture discussions and code reviews.
• Drive architecture decisions for services and platform strategy.
• Translate product needs into actionable technical plans, balancing roadmap and tech debt.
• Oversee design and maintenance of services, APIs, databases, and integrations.
• Lead complex cross‑team initiatives with Product, Operations, QA, and Design.
• Improve system reliability, performance, security, observability, and maintainability.
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and post‑mortem improvements.
• Establish engineering practices: testing, CI/CD, documentation, and code quality.

Skills

Python

Go

Backend design

REST APIs

Agile methodologies

AI-assisted tooling

Code reviews

Distributed teams

DevOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

PostgreSQL

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Git

FastAPI / Gin

Job description

Tucows Domains is seeking a Manager, Engineering to lead a highly skilled team responsible for designing, building, and maintaining services, databases, and APIs behind Tucows Domains platforms. This is a hands-on leadership role combining technical leadership, people management, and delivery execution.

You will guide architecture and technical decisions, own day-to-day delivery, and partner with Product, Operations, QA, and Design to deliver reliable, scalable systems.