Location: Remote

Working Hours: Must provide strong overlap with U.S. Eastern Time

Employment Type: Contract-to-Hire

Reporting To: Head of Engineering

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a remote full-stack development team for a U.S.-based technology company. The successful candidate will combine strong people leadership, technical depth, and delivery management experience across applications built with C#, Java, Ruby, and AWS.

This role is ideal for a hands-on engineering leader who can guide architecture and technical decisions, develop high-performing teams, and ensure the predictable delivery of secure, scalable, and reliable software products.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead and mentor a cross-functional team of full-stack developers, quality engineers, DevOps engineers, and technical leads.
- Manage the complete software-development lifecycle, including planning, design, development, testing, deployment, and production support.
- Own sprint planning, delivery commitments, resource allocation, and engineering execution.
- Provide technical direction for applications and services developed using C#, .NET, Java, Ruby, and modern web technologies.
- Guide the design of scalable, secure, cloud-native applications hosted on AWS.
- Review system architecture, technical designs, and complex code changes.
- Establish and enforce engineering standards for coding, testing, documentation, security, and deployment.
- Collaborate with product managers, architects, business stakeholders, and customer-facing teams to translate requirements into executable technical plans.
- Identify delivery risks, dependencies, and technical debt, and develop appropriate mitigation plans.
- Improve development velocity, product quality, platform reliability, and release predictability using measurable engineering metrics.
- Promote automated testing, CI/CD, observability, and DevOps best practices.




- Manage production issues and ensure timely root-cause analysis and corrective actions.
- Conduct performance reviews, provide regular feedback, support career development, and participate in hiring and team-building activities.
- Communicate engineering progress, risks, decisions, and outcomes clearly to U.S.-based stakeholders.
- Build a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous learning, and engineering excellence.

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- 9+ years of software-engineering experience, including at least 2 years in an Engineering Manager or similar leadership role.
- Experience managing remote or geographically distributed development teams.
- Strong technical experience in at least two of the following technologies, with the ability to oversee solutions across the others:

– C# and .NET

– Java and related frameworks

– Ruby and Ruby on Rails

- Solid experience with AWS services and cloud-native application architecture.
- Experience designing and delivering full-stack web applications, APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
- Understanding of relational and NoSQL databases, data modelling, performance optimization, and system integration.
- Experience with Git-based development, code reviews, automated testing, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Working knowledge of containers, Docker, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, monitoring, and application observability.
- Strong understanding of software security, scalability, availability, and performance.
- Demonstrated success delivering enterprise software within defined timelines and quality expectations.
- Excellent leadership, stakeholder-management, problem-solving, and written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work remotely with consistent availability during U.S. Eastern Time business hours.

- • Good to have: Experience enabling AI within an organization or team, with a trailblazer mindset and an AI-first approach to problem-solving.

📌 Engineering Manager – Full-Stack Development (Canada)
🏢 Digy4
📍 Canada