Technical Strategy and Execution: Own the end-to-end delivery of key projects, ensuring high standards of quality, reliability, and scalability.
Drive engineering best practices across the full development lifecycle, including design reviews, code quality, testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Use data and metrics to inform decisions, prioritize work, and continuously improve solutions.
Balance short-term delivery with long-term system health, advocating for reduced technical debt and strategic architecture improvements.
People Leadership: Hire, mentor, and develop high-performing engineers through regular coaching, performance reviews, and career planning.
Foster a culture of ownership, learning, experimentation, and engineering excellence.
Create an environment where engineers are empowered, aligned, and able to deliver their best work.
Contribute to quarterly planning and help shape Ratehub’s broader technical and product strategy.
Collaboration and Communication: Partner with Product and Design to define requirements, prioritize backlog items, clarify trade-offs, and ensure shared ownership of outcomes.
Collaborate with other engineering and cross-functional leaders to align on dependencies, architecture, and long-term technical direction.
Earn trust by communicating progress, risks, and key decisions proactively and effectively to stakeholders and leadership.

Requirements

3+ years of engineering management experience, with a proven ability to hire, develop, and mentor high-performing engineers.
5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience building modern web applications.
2+ years of experience in system design or architecture, with a focus on performance, reliability and scalability of new and existing systems.
Strong understanding of engineering best practices across the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, version control, build automation, testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Experience partnering with product management, design, and data teams to define requirements, plan roadmaps, and deliver high-quality solutions.
Strong communication and collaboration skills, with an ability to influence and align cross-functional partners.
Ability to work in a fast-paced, ambiguous, high-growth environment, with strong ownership and decision-making skills.
Bachelor's or advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
Nice-to-haves: Experience leading software development for customer-facing financial services or fintech products.

Benefits

Competitive salary: We know it’s expensive to live/work in Canada
Remote-first organization: we love opportunities to get together as a team, but for the most part we offer our employees the flexibility to work anywhere in Canada
Flexible hours: Enjoy a couple more hours of sleep in the morning, if you want
Benefits: Health is wealth! A benefits package with no employee contribution required
Perks: RRSP matching program, individual training allowance, fun team socials (remote AND in-person) and more!

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineeringsystem designarchitectureweb applicationscoding standardscode reviewsversion controlbuild automationtestingdeployment

Soft Skills

people leadershipmentoringcoachingcommunicationcollaborationinfluenceownershipdecision-makingproblem-solvingstrategic thinking

Certifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer ScienceBachelor's degree in Engineeringadvanced degree in Computer Scienceadvanced degree in Engineering