Software Engineering Manager

Job Tittle : Manager, Software Engineering - C++

Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid)

Employment Type: Full-Time (FTE)

Department: Brokerage Technology

What You’ll Do

People & Culture Leadership

• Lead and manage engineers across one or more squads, ensuring alignment with long-term business and technology goals
• Develop high-performing teams by mentoring leaders, identifying high-potential talent, and enabling clear career growth paths
• Champion an inclusive, collaborative, and high-trust engineering culture
• Inspire teams with a clear technical vision through impactful communication and presentations
• Provide steady leadership during ambiguity, change, or complex transitions

Technical Strategy & Architecture

• Own and evolve a complex technology portfolio aligned with business mission
• Define high-level system architecture and approve design patterns for scalable, enterprise-grade platforms
• Lead major technical initiatives, including vendor selection and strategic investments
• Partner with senior technical leaders on architectural decisions and critical problem-solving

Delivery & Operational Excellence

• Serve as the engineering leader within the Product–Design–Engineering trio , ensuring technical feasibility and innovation
• Communicate the business value of technology initiatives to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Lead initiatives from early prototyping to full production deployment and ongoing optimization
• Ensure applications are highly available, performant, and scalable under heavy load

What You Bring

Experience & Education

• 5+ years of backend development experience
• 3+ years of people management experience
• Degree, diploma, or equivalent experience in Computer Science or Engineering
• Experience in digital financial services (strongly preferred)
• Background in enterprise-scale systems

Technical Expertise

• Deep expertise in C++ with a focus on low-latency, high-performance systems
• Experience with cloud-native microservices , particularly on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and GKE
• Strong understanding of data storage technologies (Cloud SQL, MongoDB, Redis, SQL Server)
• Experience with event-driven architectures (Kafka, Google Pub/Sub)
• Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines and tools such as GitLab, Jira, and Confluence
• Strong skills in performance tuning and system optimization