Senior Manager, Engineering, Lister Remote within Canada Engineering Remote Full-time Our platform has already matched over 1.4 million renters with their next home, while helping properties fill units with the right residents. Backed by strong growth and a big vision, we’re building the future of renting—and inviting bold thinkers to help us shape it!

As Senior

Manager, Engineering for the Lister team, you'll lead the engineering behind how property partners get their listings onto Apartment List and get value back out.

Through

Lister, we turn partner data from across the property management landscape into accurate listings, and turn renter interest into revenue for our partners. Reporting into the Head of Engineering, you'll play a pivotal role in executing product strategy for the Lister domain, setting the engineering vision, roadmap, and delivery across three pods, each supported by a team lead who owns day-to-day execution. Our ideal leader is both a robust operator and a strategic one: a player-coach who brings deep expertise in backend services and data pipelines that partners depend on, and knows how to apply AI to move faster.

You stay close enough to the code to keep the technical bar high while growing the engineers and championing the partners the team serves.

Own the outcomes of the Lister domain end to end: delivery, technical health, partner data quality, and the health of the team that carries it. Grow their scope from project leadership toward broader ownership, and coach the engineers under them. Review code, drive architecture decisions on the pipeline and partner integrations,



and pick up work when the situation calls for it.

Partner with Product, Design, Analytics, Partner Success, and Finance to translate ambiguous partner and regulatory pressure into scoped engineering work. Classify incoming partner escalations, data quality reports, and feature asks, and push back when the answer is no.

Represent Lister engineering to leadership: what shipped, what is at risk, what it will take. 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 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. ~ You have owned a system whose inputs you did not control, and you know how to build guardrails, observability, and reconciliation around data you cannot trust. ~ Strong technical judgment. You can explain a data pipeline failure to a partner-facing stakeholder and a business trade-off to an executive. ~ Experience with Kotlin, Ruby, and Typescript, or the willingness to learn them. ~ Experience building cloud-native applications, preferably on Google Cloud Platform. Zone 1: $175,000 - $212,000 TTC (including $154,000 - $180,000 base salary) + equity Zone 2: $157,000 - $190,000 TTC (including $138,000 - $161,000 base salary) + equity We also rely on market indicators along with considering your work location, job related skills, experience and relevant education and training, to determine compensation that is fair and competitive for you.

📌 Senior Manager, Engineering, Lister (Vancouver)
🏢 Canaan Partners
📍 Vancouver