Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Why This Role Exists

is scaling a modern, AI-augmented Engineering Hub to support high-traffic, regulated digital platforms across multiple product domains.

The Senior Manager, Software Engineering will ensure we are able to:

• Increase delivery velocity without increasing risk
• Scale teams and systems predictably
• Use AI responsibly to improve developer productivity and experience
• Maintain high engineering standards in a regulated environment

This is a role for leaders who own outcomes, not just teams.

What You Will Lead

• Multiple product-aligned teams across different
• Team Leads, Software Engineering
• Delivery execution, technical quality, and operational ownership for everything your teams ship

Core Responsibilities

Engineering Leadership & Delivery

• Own end-to-end delivery execution across multiple teams and domains
• Drive predictable planning, estimation, and execution
• Maintain high standards for code quality, production readiness, and maintainability
• Partner with Product on what and why, while retaining authority over how
• Actively reduce architectural coupling and technical debt
• Ensure teams own:
  • On-call participation
  • Post-incident remediation

AI‑Augmented Engineering

You are expected to treat AI as a first-class productivity lever, not an experiment.

Drive adoption of enterprise-approved AI coding assistants to:

• Reduce boilerplate and repetitive coding
• Accelerate refactoring and modernization
• Improve test scaffolding and coverage
• Improve code comprehension and onboarding

Establish clear standards for AI-assisted development:

• Encourage scaffolding, refactors, test generation, documentation
• Mandatory human review for: business logic, security-sensitive code
• Ensure AI is integrated into IDE, PR, and CI/CD workflows in a governed, auditable way
• Partner with Platform and Security leaders to ensure AI usage meets:
  • Privacy requirements
  • Security standards
  • Auditability expectations

AI is an accelerator — you remain accountable for outcomes, quality, and risk.

Operational Ownership

• Ensure teams support what they ship
• Own code-level root cause resolution for production incidents
• Use incident data to drive systemic improvements

OKRs & KPIs (Performance-Critical)

Primary OKR Ownership

Deliver predictable engineering outcomes without increasing risk

KPIs You Own (Trend-Based)

• Delivery predictability (% of commitments delivered)
• Lead time from commit → production
• Production defect rate
• Code health / technical debt trend
• PR review turnaround time
• Engineering engagement and retention

AI-Related Outcomes

• Reduced lead time and onboarding time without increased defects
• Measurable reduction in low-value manual engineering work
• Stable or improved quality as throughput increases

Improving these trends over time is a core performance expectation.

What You Bring

• 12+ years in software engineering with significant people leadership experience
• Proven experience leading Team Leads or Managers
• Strong technical grounding in modern web and backend systems
• Experience delivering cloud-native systems on AWS, including serverless patterns
• Comfort operating in regulated, high-availability environments
• Strong data-driven leadership mindset (metrics over anecdotes)

Technical Experience

• JavaScript / TypeScript ecosystems (Vue, Next, Node.js)
• Exposure to Drupal / PHP in CMS-heavy platforms
• CI/CD and IaC experience:
  • Terraform
  • AWS SAM
  • AWS Amplify
  • GitLab pipelines
• Observability mindset (metrics, logs, traces)
• Hands-on experience rolling out AI coding assistants in production teams

Why Join Us?

We’re a team of curious minds who love to learn, build, and grow together. We value transparency, ownership, and continuous improvement. You’ll have the freedom to innovate and the support to thrive.

Ready to build the future with us?

Our Perks

• You get your Birthday off!
• This role requires two in‑office days per week (Tuesday and Thursday), with an additional Wednesday in the office every other week
• 4 weeks of 'Work from Anywhere Program' every year
• Full employer-paid benefits
• RRSP Matching Program with Wealthsimple
• Annual holiday festivities, free lunches and so much more
• Helping you help others with our paid volunteer programs
• Employee satisfaction survey for you to voice your opinion on Group Ltd.
• Free access to LinkedIn Learning
• Lounge and games room - ping-pong, pool, foosball, and more!

The compensation package consists of a competitive salary, benefits, and an incentive bonus.

Group Ltd. and its subsidiaries are committed to being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide equal opportunity to all qualified individuals regardless of race, color, religion, age, gender, gender expression, national origin, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected categories such as sexual orientation. We believe that diversity, equity and inclusion are critical to our mission - creating a foundation for a creative workplace that leads to innovation and growth. We value diversity and strive to create an inclusive, accessible workplace where all individuals feel valued, respected, and heard.

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