Engineering Manager

PurposeMed

Engineering Manager leading technical strategy and mentoring engineering teams at PurposeMed, a healthtech startup improving care accessibility across North America.

Posted 4/15/2026full-timeRemote • 🇨🇦 CanadaMid-LevelSenior💰 CA$140,000 - CA$170,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud Platform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Leading and Mentoring a High-Performing Engineering Team
Guiding and mentoring members of the engineering team while providing coaching in 1:1s and running effective performance reviews
Creating a positive, diverse, and inclusive environment for your team to bring their best selves to work
Fostering strong relationships and effective communication with cross-functional teams and stakeholders
Driving Operational Excellence Across your Pod
Working in close collaboration with Product, Design, and Data leadership on improving ways of working within our POD/Triad model
Leading your pod's processes, and collaborating with other teams to ensure effective collaboration and continuous improvement
Communicating ongoing initiatives and blockers while working with team members on prioritizing tasks that ensure development teams are set up for success
Shaping Technical Strategy and Delivering High-Quality Systems
Supporting the technical strategy and working with the team on defining and setting the product's technical direction
Driving the team to deliver high-quality features and products efficiently, balancing speed with the need for scalable and maintainable architecture
Creating technical diagrams and driving documentation of key technical decisions and strategy

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of experience in Software Engineering with a focus on platform development and infrastructure
3+ years of engineering management experience, supporting and guiding direct reports with a genuine excitement for helping to grow people's careers
Experience with distributed systems, cloud computing, and scaling infrastructure (e.g. GCP, Third Party System Integrations, Data Systems)
An excellent ability to communicate complex technical ideas to both technical and non-technical stakeholders in a way suitable for the audience and situation
Experience with decisions and tradeoffs in applying techniques ranging from rapid prototyping to multi quarter technology shifts
Experience making effective use of AI within a development process.

Benefits

Comp & perks

20 vacation days and a team that will remind you to use them!
Annual winter break closure
Extended medical, dental, and vision care starting on your first day of work!
8 wellness days
$500 health and wellness spending account
$2,000 mental health coverage with additional free online counseling through Inkblot Therapy and FeelingBetterNow mental health assessments
$20,000 of lifetime coverage for gender-affirming care and procedures
$500 learning fund to use towards courses and other professional development
Our unique People Potential program, in which you'll partner with your manager to identify opportunities to grow and achieve your full potential
$3,400 lifetime coverage for fertility drugs
Parental leave program for birthing and non-birthing parents—your choice of:
Short term: 4 weeks off to use flexibly in your first year of parenting
Long-term: 13 weeks EI top-up
Eligible team members and their dependents receive no-cost access to PurposeMed’s services: Freddie, Frida, Foria.

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineeringplatform developmentinfrastructuredistributed systemscloud computingscaling infrastructureAI in developmenttechnical strategytechnical documentationperformance reviews

Soft Skills

mentoringcoachingcommunicationcollaborationrelationship buildingteam leadershipproblem-solvingprioritizationinclusive environmentoperational excellence