Senior Manager, Software Engineering
đź“Ť North York, Toronto | Hybrid (3 Days Onsite)
đź•’ Full-Time |
đź’Ľ Role: Full Stack (Angular/React Native, Micro-Front End, Cloud, Back-End)
About the Role
We are on a mission to democratize finance and empower everyday investors through cutting-edge technology. As part of our Brokerage Technology group, you will help shape the future of digital investing by building scalable, high-impact applications used by thousands of customers.
We are looking for a strategic, forward-thinking Senior Manager, Software Engineering to lead multiple engineering squads. In this role, you will own cross-team technical direction, guide architectural decisions, and strengthen our engineering culture—while working closely with Product, Design, and Technology leadership.
This is a key leadership role for someone who wants to balance technical strategy, architecture, team leadership, and business impact.
What You’ll Do
People & Culture Leadership
- Lead and mentor engineers across multiple squads, ensuring alignment with long-term tech and business goals.
- Build career-development frameworks and identify high-potential talent.
- Promote an inclusive, diverse, and growth-oriented engineering culture.
- Communicate a compelling technical vision and motivate teams through periods of change.
- Provide stable leadership during transitions and ambiguous situations.
Technical Strategy & Architecture
- Manage a large, complex technology portfolio with high business impact.
- Define high-level architectural direction and approve system-wide design patterns.
- Drive major technical and vendor selection initiatives across teams.
- Ensure engineering decisions support broader organizational tech strategy.
- Focus on long-term architecture and technical direction rather than day-to-day coding.
Delivery & Operational Excellence
- Serve as a key engineering leader in the Product–Design–Engineering (PDE) trio.
- Translate technical initiatives into business value and gain stakeholder buy-in.
- Guide products from prototyping to production and beyond.
- Oversee performance, scalability, reliability, and optimization of high-traffic applications.
- Improve engineering processes, governance, and development best practices.
- Represent the department at internal/external tech events or publications.
Education & Experience
- 8+ years in web-based technologies, with 3+ years in team/people management.
- Degree/diploma in Computer Science, Engineering, or related experience.
- Digital financial services or fintech experience is highly preferred.
- Experience in enterprise-level architecture and solutioning.
Technical Skills
- Cloud-native microservices development on GKE / Google Cloud Platform .
- Strong expertise with Angular and React Native , including Micro Front-End architecture .
- Hands-on experience with Cloud SQL, MongoDB, Redis, SQL Server .
- Knowledge of event streaming tools: Google Pub/Sub, Kafka .
- Proficiency in CI/CD , GitLab, Jira, Confluence.
- Strong skills in performance tuning and system optimization.
Leadership & Strategic Strengths
- Exceptional stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
- Ability to coach teams through change, ambiguity, and high-pressure situations.
- Expertise across the full SDLC—design, integration, testing, deployment, and support.
- Strong risk mitigation skills, ensuring system scalability and maintainability.
- Excellent communication skills, capable of explaining technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
