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 is a world-class team of 100+ product managers, designers, and software engineers, located in downtown Toronto, working with a wide range of industries and products – from FinTech to EdTech, media to emerging technologies, well-funded start-ups to Fortune 500 companies.

They are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to join them on their mission to help build the most innovative start-ups, scale-ups, and enterprise companies in the world.

Responsibilities:

• Providing technical leadership and oversight for client engagements while setting a high bar for engineering quality, monitoring and reporting on overall project health, proactively addressing concerns, delivering on-time and on-budget, and promoting both team and client satisfaction
• Mentoring a team of developers; providing feedback on work quality, providing coaching, and setting measurable goals that enable them to grow into the next generation of technical leads
• Recruiting talented individuals, participating in and overseeing the hiring process, and representing the company in the community
• Evolving the engineering practice by driving departmental initiatives forward, identifying and executing on training opportunities for the team, contributing to resources and documentation, and introducing emerging technologies

Your qualification

• A strong background in software development; a breadth of experience paired with a demonstrated ability to ship high-quality solutions 
• Prior experience leading and managing development teams and projects, with a proven track record of success
• An excitement for the challenges that come with delivering quality solutions in a rapidly-growing team; an appreciation for the intersection of engineering and interpersonal skills
• The ability to flex and meaningfully collaborate with a variety of teams, stakeholders, employees, and clients; a bias toward action and ownership
• A passion for coaching and mentorship — you genuinely want to see your team members grow and thrive. You feel a drive for constant improvement and aren’t afraid to step outside your comfort zone 
• Technology background: depth of skill sets in one language/framework (in order of priority: Java/Spring, JS or TypeScript/Express/Nest, or C#/.NET) and at the more senior level, breadth of experience in at least one other language (Java, JS, TS, C#, Python, Ruby, Go, etc)

Additional details

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