Manager, Software Engineering

Location

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Salary

CAD 180,000 - 180,000 / year

Company

Akash pawar

Job description

### Role & Company / Project Overview A leading automotive technology organization is hiring a Manager, Software Engineering to lead the full-stack team responsible for a customer relationship management platform and related services. This role combines people leadership, technical direction, and delivery ownership. You will lead a team of 5–6 engineers and partner with Product, UX, Data, and other engineering teams to deliver reliable software and meaningful customer outcomes. ### Key Responsibilities & Daily Duties • Coach and develop engineers; support career growth, performance management, hiring, and onboarding. • Turn business priorities into clear plans, manage dependencies and risks, remove blockers, and follow commitments through to delivery. • Partner with Product and cross-functional teams on scope, acceptance criteria, capacity, milestones, and forecasts. • Guide architecture and technical decisions, contribute to design and code reviews, and help troubleshoot applications, integrations, and infrastructure. • Strengthen testing, observability, security, privacy, accessibility, release readiness, and incident response. • Use retrospectives and delivery metrics to improve team practices while making room for technical improvements and mentoring. • Support practical use of AI tools in development, testing, review, and documentation, with appropriate validation and human oversight. ### Required Qualifications, Skills & Experience • 5+ years of engineering leadership experience, including direct people management, coaching, hiring, and performance management. • Strong software engineering background with hands-on PHP and Laravel experience. • Experience building and operating scalable, customer-facing web applications. • A track record of owning delivery, resolving blockers, and communicating risks with clear options and recommendations. • Experience with delivery practices such as capacity planning, milestone tracking, and dependency management. • Clear communication and sound judgment, with the ability to build trust and accountability across technical and business teams. • Technical environment awareness: Platform includes PHP/Laravel, JavaScript/TypeScript and Vue, relational databases such as PostgreSQL, Redis, APIs and event-driven integrations, plus AWS services and CI/CD. The team also supports mobile applications built with React Native/React. (Specialist-level expertise in every tool is not required; looking for technical judgment to guide design, review work, and help troubleshoot effectively). ### Working Hours, Shifts & Location Details • Location: Toronto / Greater Toronto Area (GTA), Ontario, Canada • Employment Type: Permanent, Full-time • Work arrangement: Hybrid work, with two days per week in a Toronto/GTA office ### Compensation & Benefits • Base salary up to $180,000 CAD, plus bonus • Three weeks of vacation ### Application Instructions • Apply through LinkedIn or message to start a conversation.