Senior Manager, Engineering, Lister
$157,000–$190,000 year
RemoteCanada
Job Summary
Own the end-to-end outcomes of the Lister domain, including delivery, technical health, and partner data quality. Set and defend a quarterly roadmap across three pods while developing team leads and coaching engineers. Stay hands-on by reviewing code, driving architecture decisions on pipelines, and handling critical incidents. Partner with Product, Design, and Finance to translate ambiguous pressure into scoped work, and manage the intake of partner escalations and feature requests. Represent engineering to leadership on shipped items and risks. Manage on-call health and operational completeness for systems relying on external, uncontrolled inputs.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of software engineering experience
- 5+ years managing engineering teams of 5 or more
- Experience managing through team leads or senior engineers, not just direct ICs
- A track record of building and scaling backend services and data pipelines that other teams and external partners depend on
- Comfort with messy third-party integrations
- Experience owning a system whose inputs you did not control
- Experience building guardrails, observability, and reconciliation around data you cannot trust
- Strong technical judgment
- Experience holding the architecture bar for a team you do not out-code
- Experience partnering directly with Product Managers, Designers, and Analysts to shape roadmaps
- A record of growing engineers, including promoting people and turning around underperformance
- Clear written communication
- Experience explaining a data pipeline failure to a partner-facing stakeholder
- Experience explaining a business trade-off to an executive
- Experience with Kotlin, Ruby, and Typescript, or the willingness to learn them
- Experience building cloud-native applications
- Experience building cloud-native applications on Google Cloud Platform
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