Senior Engineering Manager

Role Overview

• Shape Product Strategy: Partner with Product Management and Design to shape roadmaps and define clear technical and performance requirements for future initiatives.
• Champion Agility: Promote an agile mindset with team rituals and processes that support predictable delivery, fast feedback loops, and continuous improvement.
• Lead Project Delivery: Drive the execution of complex, cross-functional engineering projects. Scope and stage work into well-defined milestones, ensuring alignment with commonsku's vision.
• Provide Technical Leadership: Act as a technical leader and thought partner, resolving ambiguity and applying strong engineering judgment to ensure sustainable and scalable systems.
• Cultivate Talent: Build, grow, and retain a team of engineering professionals by fostering an environment of psychological safety, accountability, and technical excellence.
• Coach & Mentor: Provide regular coaching, feedback, and career development aligned with our internal progression framework.
• Connect Team to Mission: Ensure each team member understands how their work connects to customers, our mission, and our broader business strategy.
• Navigate Trade-offs: Balance business, customer, and technical trade-offs thoughtfully and transparently.
• Drive Engineering Excellence: Identify strategic opportunities to improve engineering practices, tools, or systems, and drive adoption of these enhancements at scale.
• Represent Engineering Interdepartmentally: Champion the engineering team in company-level initiatives, helping others understand the impact, scope, and feasibility of proposed technical solutions.
• Facilitate Clear Communication: Model clear, proactive, and tailored communication across levels and audiences while sharing learnings, progress, and outcomes broadly.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with a proven track record of delivering scalable, high-quality software in a fast-paced environment.
• 3+ years of experience managing engineers, including hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career development.
• Proven experience partnering with Product and Design teams to shape roadmaps, define scope, and deliver customer-centric features.
• Strong technical background with hands-on experience in system design, architecture, and modern development practices.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-functional projects from concept to delivery, balancing technical trade-offs and business outcomes.
• Strong understanding of Agile principles and experience evangelizing them.
• A proven ability to build and scale engineering processes that support team health, delivery speed, and code quality.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to create clarity and alignment across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• An action-oriented mindset, a customer-first philosophy, and the ability to think and act strategically.
• Comfort working independently and asynchronously, while also prioritizing collaboration and connection with people.
• Experience leveraging AI coding tools and workflows, and establishing best practices for engineering teams.
• Bonus: Experience with devops tools/practices; experience with Generative AI and applying it to solve customer problems.

Benefits

• Remote-first culture (with plenty of excellent in-person experiences sprinkled in)
• Company-wide closure between December 25th and January 1st
• Health and dental benefits, including a $1,000 healthcare spending account
• RRSP/TFSA contributions up to $3,000 a year (no employee contribution required!)
• Twice-yearly company wide summits (we call it HQ and you’ll love it)
• A delightful team of smart people who are good at what they do