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Blue J

Engineering Manager

Blue J

. Collaborate with Product and Engineering leaders to define goals and priorities .

Posted 11/5/2026full-timeToronto • CanadaSeniorLead💰 CA$160,000 - CA$195,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in designing and building customer-facing SaaS products, with a strong architectural foundation and experience in managing complex systems. Proven ability to lead engineering teams, improve practices, and communicate effectively across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Highest-signal resume keywords
SaaS Product DevelopmentTeam ManagementArchitectural DesignData Pipeline ManagementEvent-Driven Distributed Systems

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Hard Skills
Node.jsReactTypeScriptPythonSystem DesignRoadmap CreationData Ingestion SystemsFault-Tolerant SystemsResilient SystemsTesting Practices
Soft Skills
Clear CommunicationCoachingProblem-SolvingCollaborationCreative Mindset
Tools & Technologies
AWSTerraformKubernetesDockerLaunchDarklyGitHubCircleCIPostgreSQLElasticsearchDynamoDB
Industry Keywords
AI Content PlatformCross-Functional ProjectsComplex SystemsHigh-Confidence ReleasesSystem Thinking

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AWSDistributed SystemsDockerDynamoDBElasticSearchJavaScriptKafkaKubernetesNode.jsPostgresPythonReactTerraformTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Collaborate with Product and Engineering leaders to define goals and priorities
  • Identify and monitor key success measures for the AI Content Platform
  • Advance systems for ingesting, understanding, curating, indexing, and rendering content for near-real-time AI use
  • Lead engineers in designing and building foundational systems and internal tools
  • Guide teams through ambiguity, complexity, and difficult tradeoff decisions
  • Keep projects on track and communicate progress clearly to stakeholders
  • Support frequent, safe, high-confidence releases
  • Coach and develop engineers into system thinkers and leaders
  • Improve engineering practices for quality, lean iteration, testing, and healthy system design
  • Hire high-performing engineers
  • Create clarity around ownership, mandates, interfaces, and platform boundaries across pods
  • Build architectural and codebase understanding, contribute to design discussions and code reviews
  • Work with the pillar Director to clarify priorities, surface risks and constraints, and adjust plans

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 7+ years of hands-on experience, including designing and building heavily used customer-facing SaaS products
  • 0–2 years directly managing teams of 4+ engineers
  • Experience managing engineers ranging from students to Senior+ level
  • Evidence of shaping innovative products and technical direction in partnership with Product and Design
  • Entrepreneurial and creative mindset
  • Strong architectural foundation and experience owning complex systems end-to-end
  • Experience with roadmap creation, system design, implementation, and long-term system evolution
  • Ability to operate as a senior-level individual contributor when needed
  • Clear communication skills for explaining complex system designs to technical and non-technical audiences
  • Experience with data pipelines at scale, especially with RAG systems
  • Experience with ingestion systems handling heterogeneous trusted and untrusted data
  • Experience with fault-tolerant, resilient, event-driven distributed systems
  • Experience managing cross-functional projects and communicating risk
  • Node.js, React, TypeScript, Python
  • AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, LaunchDarkly
  • GitHub, CircleCI
  • PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, S3
  • Kafka, NATS, SNS/SQS
  • Must live within driving distance of the Toronto office

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Stock options
  • Benefits designed to support you and your family
  • Primarily remote work with occasional travel to the Toronto office and conferences as needed
  • Travel and accommodation covered for the first three days of onboarding if based outside the local commuting area
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Professional development through coaching and leadership growth
  • Inclusive and accessible hiring experience with reasonable interview accommodations
  • Collaborative, ambitious, and supportive team environment