Senior Engineering Manager

Summary

Join GlossGenius as a Senior Engineering Manager and lead a team of engineers in building and improving our innovative product for small business owners. You will be responsible for growing, mentoring, and managing your team, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and driving key initiatives. This role requires extensive software engineering and people management experience, strong technical foundations, and excellent communication skills. The position offers flexible PTO, competitive health and dental insurance, generous parental leave, a retirement savings plan, professional development opportunities, home office support, and team-bonding activities. Work remotely from anywhere in Canada.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience with 4+ years of experience as a people manager
• Experience leading through other leaders; this can be through technical leads or people managers
• Proven ability to collaborate with product/program managers, designers, and peers to build plans, set expectations, and successfully deliver new 0 to 1 products and features
• A strong business acumen and customer-centric mindset, backed by data analytics skills
• Solid technical foundations, while this is not a hands-on coding role, you should still show sound foundational system design knowledge and be able to guide a team through a technical discussion
• Ability to recruit and build high-performing teams to build the next generation of GlossGenius products!
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written

Responsibilities

• Manage and grow a team of talented senior and staff engineers; holistically view your team and understand how to best utilize their skill sets, empowering them to deliver on their day-to-day engineering responsibilities as well as their long-term career aspirations
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other cross-functional teams to establish the long-term technical and product vision and the steps needed to get there
• Prioritize, plan, and ensure alignment across your team and other cross-functional business teams to execute on key initiatives and drive business impact
• Implement new and effective engineering processes that emphasize quality and progress on key product initiatives
• Partner with recruiting to build a high-performing engineering team; understand how to attract and retain top talent

Preferred Qualifications

Previous experience as leading full-stack engineering teams

Benefits

• Flexible PTO
• Competitive health & dental insurance options, with premiums covered by GG
• Generous, fully-paid parental leave policy
• Retirement Savings Plan
• Professional Development - employees receive a yearly stipend for approved learning and educational-related expenses
• Home office support
• Team Bonding opportunities - as a distributed team, being able to build meaningful bonds both virtually and in person is incredibly important to us! We are constantly evaluating how we accomplish this and currently, teams are given opportunities to gather in person throughout the year