Remote Engineering Manager: Platform & API Leadership

Tucows Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 114,000 - 122,000; Full time

Job summary

Tucows Domains is seeking a Manager, Engineering to lead a team of engineers building the services, databases, and APIs behind Tucows Domains platforms. This role blends technical leadership with people management and delivery accountability.

You will guide architecture, own day-to-day execution, support production systems, and mentor engineers into strong, independent contributors while partnering with Product, Operations, QA, Design, and other teams to deliver reliable, scalable, secure

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong background in backend development, system design, and production applications.
• 2+ years of engineering management experience, including direct people management, mentoring, and performance management.
• Strong experience with Python, Go, or similar backend languages.
• Experience designing RESTful APIs using frameworks such as FastAPI or Gin.
• Experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL, including schema design and query optimization.
• Experience designing, building, and operating highly available, reliable, and scalable services.
• Strong technical judgment and hands-on software development experience, including contributions to production code and technical problem-solving.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to explain technical decisions, trade-offs, and risks to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Experience managing engineering delivery, technical priorities, and cross-team dependencies.
• Experience with Agile software development methodologies, including Scrum, Kanban, or similar approaches.
• Demonstrated experience using AI-assisted software development tools, including appropriate validation and security practices.
• Experience with automated testing, Continuous Integration, Git, and modern development workflows.
• Experience supporting production systems, troubleshooting complex issues, and leading incident response.
• Experience leading and collaborating with geographically distributed engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead a high-performing engineering team responsible for designing, building, and maintaining services, apps, databases, and APIs.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership through architecture discussions, code reviews, and production contributions.
• Own day-to-day delivery, planning, prioritization, and release coordination.
• Guide architecture decisions and broader platform strategy with leadership.
• Translate business needs into technical plans, balancing roadmap, technical debt, and reliability.
• Drive improvements in system reliability, security, observability, and maintainability.
• Lead incident response and root-cause analyses for critical outages.
• Establish and improve engineering practices, including automated testing and CI/CD.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools to boost productivity and code quality.
• Communicate progress, risks, and decisions clearly to stakeholders.

Skills

Python

Go

REST APIs

PostgreSQL

CI/CD

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

AI tooling

Distributed teams

Agile

Git

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

FastAPI

Gin

AWS

PostgreSQL

Git

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Tucows Domains is seeking a Manager, Engineering to lead a team of engineers building the services, databases, and APIs behind Tucows Domains platforms. This role blends technical leadership with people management and delivery accountability.

You will guide architecture, own day-to-day execution, support production systems, and mentor engineers into strong, independent contributors while partnering with Product, Operations, QA, Design, and other teams to deliver reliable, scalable, secure