Engineering Lead

About Maximus Canada

At Maximus Canada, we share an authentic desire to do something meaningful to help others succeed. We apply our deep operational expertise, technology innovation, and digitally enabled citizen engagement in new ways and help governments solve complex problems.

Maximus Canada collaborates with government partners to deliver a variety of citizen services, including healthcare administration, federal and provincial programs, and contact centre services across Canada. We offer eHealth solutions through our Medigent® suite of products, as well as technology consulting and business process services. We leverage our deep operational expertise, technology innovation, and digitally enabledcustomer engagement to deliver fast solutions.

Today, we proudly support many federal, provincial and municipal programs across the country powered by Canadians.

Globally, Maximus has operations in India, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom. Our mission is to affect fundamental change in the lives of every individual with whom we engage and at every touchpoint. But ultimately, what we do is improve people’s lives. And that is a testament to the ingenuity, commitment, and compassion everyone brings to their role at Maximus Canada and their dedication to connecting citizens with the services they need from Government agencies.

Position Summary

The Engineering Lead oversees the end-to-end engineering lifecycle of a distributed, cloud-native SaaS platform, ensuring architectural integrity, scalability, and the long-term stability of the solution.

Acting as a bridge between technical and business functions, you will serve as the primary technical authority, ensuring that product vision is realized through engineering excellence, and providing mentorship and strategic direction to developers, analysts, and QA teams to ensure cohesive delivery.

Working closely with the Lead Architect, you will establish the development methodologies and architectural standards required to build a scalable, reliable, performant platform, and be responsible for maintaining technical excellence from initial development through to production support and long-term system evolution.

Key Accountabilities

• Technical Leadership: Direct cross-functional squads building cloud-native, microservices-based applications, ensuring alignment between frontend and backend architectures.
• Engineering Excellence: Drive high-velocity development standards by enforcing automated testing, rigorous code reviews, and consistent CI/CD practices.
• Infrastructure & Security: Oversee automated deployment pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), ensuring system stability, security-by-design, and environment predictability.
• Observability: Implement comprehensive monitoring and alerting frameworks to ensure proactive system health management and rapid incident response.
• AI Integration & Innovation: Evaluate and implement AI-driven tools and LLM integrations to enhance application functionality, automate internal workflows, and accelerate developer productivity.
• Mentorship & Growth: Enable a culture of continuous learning and technical rigor, guiding the professional development of junior and senior engineers.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as the primary technical liaison between engineering, product owners, and business stakeholders to ensure successful delivery.
• Strategic Planning: Translate complex business requirements into technical specifications and conduct architectural spikes to de-risk high-complexity features.

Experience & Technical Expertise

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical field
• 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• 4+ years of full-stack experience building modern, microservices-based web applications.
• Frontend Experience: Extensive experience building web applications using React, TypeScript, Next.js, and Tailwind CSS. Proficient with Storybook, Vitest, or similar technologies for component documentation and testing.
• Backend Experience: Extensive experience building high-performance microservices using Python (FastAPI). Experience with service orchestration and distributed caching/state management using Dapr, Redis, or similar technologies. Proficient in Pytest or similar frameworks for unit testing.
• Cloud & Infrastructure Leadership: Hands-on experience managing Microsoft Azure environments using Docker/Containers, Terraform for Infrastructure as Code, and Git Hub Actions for CI/CD.
• 2+ years in a technical leadership or architectural role, with a proven track record of mentoring developers, defining system standards, and cross-functional collaboration.

Engineering Leadership & Culture

• Strategic Execution & Autonomy: Ability to plan and execute complex technical responsibilities with minimal direction while…