Engineering Manager

About Global Skills Hub

Global Skills Hub helps international technical talent to find jobs with Canadian companies and relocate to Canada.

We match developers from all around the world with suitable remote or relocation jobs with Canada's top tech companies. We exclusively partner with employers that are open to sponsoring your visa costs and we also help with the entire immigration process.

We're on a mission to solve one of the biggest challenges for high-growth companies across Canada: the shortage of highly skilled and experienced technical talent. 
At the same time, we are committed to helping tech professionals integrate into a safe and diverse environment, that ensures a path to a thriving life and career.

P.S. We don’t charge our candidates any fees.

Position

Our hiring partner, based in Toronto, is a leading product innovation firm, focused on the strategy, design, and development of cutting-edge apps (certified as “Great Place to Work, Canada”). Their comprehensive 360-degree product development process includes ideation, research, app strategy, design, development, maintenance, and customer acquisition. Through its R&D division, the company builds solutions with emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence, IoT, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Blockchain.

They are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to join their team. The Engineering Manager leads the engineering department with direct responsibility for hiring and training new engineering team members, preparing technical budgets, assigning resources to the projects, developing competent technological/engineering solutions, planning, and scheduling activities and resources.

Responsibilities:

• Hire & Train Engineering team members across multiple technologies
• Prepare and manage Engineering budgets
• Resource allocations based on skill set requirements for all projects
• Establish code review process
• Ensure proper cadence to development standards are maintained
• Represent the engineering team on qualified lead – sales calls
• Coordinate with external stakeholders for new integrations and tools
• Interface with all other departments to ensure a cooperative effort
• Responsible for technical development of all projects
• Accountable for delivery of projects within schedules and timelines
• Manages day-to-day operational aspects of a project and scope
• Develop, improve, and maintain software development processes
• Plans and directs all aspects of the engineering activities within the organization
• Other duties, as assigned

Leadership:

• Provide constructive support, advice, and project rollout updates during leadership meetings
• Create a positive atmosphere by demonstrating a Growth Mindset and Lead company values by example
• Have a proactive solutions-oriented approach to issues that may arise
• Define technology strategy and oversee implementation for front end (native mobile applications & web applications) and Backend development
• Establish a process around code reviews & peer reviews
• Ensure compliance with security regulations
• Manage geographically distributed teams (Internal & External) to deliver products with high quality and within the stipulated budget 

Manager responsibilities:

• Day to day employee Management – managing team’s time, queries, administrative, etc.
• Identification and promotion of high potentials and talent
• Regular management of direct reports - 1:1s, appraisals, learning/coaching plans defined
• Leadership to the team
• Resource Allocation on projects based on the right skill set mapping
• Allocation of budgets and tracking budgets to ensure high billability for resources. Drive adoption of the best engineering practices in the team and the organization 
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices best practices for the full software development life cycle including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

Your qualification

• Minimum 4+ years as a Director of Engineering or in a similar senior-level
• Extensive experience with cloud technologies and modern human-computer interfaces
• Hands-on experience in back-end and front-end development
• Good understanding of agile methodologies
• Leadership abilities with a strategic mind
• Excellent project management skills
• Hands-on Experience on at least 1 of these technologies: Java, Node, Python, .net
• Understanding of front-end technologies such as React, Angular, Kotlin and XCode
• Experience with Restful APIs
• Experience in understanding & decrypting technical architecture
• Project Management certifications such as PMP, Six Sigma, EMPC, PgMP
• Hands-on experience as Full stack developer
• Expert in Native Mobile App Development
• Proficient in database technologies like MongoDB or RDBMS
• Good exposure to scalable and distributed systems using microservices
• Willingness to understand innovative technology and map it to improve business outcomes
• Lead technology architecture and development as per product needs
• Must have hands-on experience in troubleshooting and debug issues in the production environment 
• Exposure to Mobile Hybrid development
• Exposure to various cloud hosting environments (Preferably AWS)
• Good to have- experience in Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, Elastic Search, Redis
• Exposure to DevOps/ CI-CD processes/practices in production environments
• Knowledge with AI/Machine Learning is a plus

What we offer

Relocation package:

• Visa services (work visa sponsorship)
• Assistance in getting a work permit
• Airport pick-up
• Adaptation tips
• Assistance in finding rent/accommodation
• Flight coverage