Engineering Manager - Canada
Ashby · Remote · Remote - Canada · Calgary · Vancouver · Toronto ·
COMPENSATION
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- Fully remote
- Engineering Manager
- TypeScript + React
- High ownership culture
- Unlimited PTO
You will manage three to five engineers across various specializations, including Product, Site Reliability, and Design Engineering. This position requires balancing grassroots leadership with hands-on technical contributions, such as debugging issues and improving internal tooling.
The team operates with significant autonomy, where engineers define product specs and drive projects end-to-end. You will help maintain this culture by coaching engineers, refining hiring processes, and leading initiatives that enhance code quality and review efficiency.
What you'll do
- Manage and hire three to five engineers across multiple specializations
- Coach engineers to deliver large, loosely defined projects with minimal intervention
- Provide feedback on product and technical specs to improve quality and scope
- Debug customer issues and ship small bug fixes to stay technically current
- Lead department-wide initiatives such as improving pull request reviews
- Design and refine interview processes based on candidate and team feedback
- Improve data generation and simulation for demo accounts
What you'll need
- Former engineer who loves coding and stays up-to-date with technology
- Experience building teams of exceptional engineers
- Ambition and courage to change processes within teams or departments
- Ability to thrive in a high-autonomy environment with minimal guardrails
- Belief that staff engineers should lead by example rather than just project manage
- Optimism about building large engineering teams without traditional status quo processes
- Willingness to work in a low-meeting, high-focus culture
Stack
- TypeScript
- React
- GraphQL
- Node.js
- Postgres
- Redis
How you'll work
- Fully remote position
- Flexible hours with sacred focus time
- Less than two hours of meetings per week
- In-person meetups twice a year
- Budget for local regional meetups
What you get
- Competitive salary and equity
- 10-year exercise window for stock options
- Unlimited PTO with encouragement to use it
- Minimum 12 weeks fully paid parental leave
- Generous equipment and office furniture budget
- $100 monthly education budget
- $250 monthly tool budget plus AI token access
- Fully covered health insurance for employees and dependents
Hiring process
- Introduction call with Director of Engineering
- Technical screen pairing in the actual codebase
- Leadership experience interview with Director of Engineering
- Interview with VP of Engineering
- Interview with Head of Engineering EMEA
- Final round with Engineers and other Engineering Managers
- Reference checks near the end of the process