MCG Careers, Inc. is seeking a Full-time Engineering Lead (Hybrid/Remote) on behalf of our employer partner under the Winning Edge-Workplace Training Program.

This Calgary-based custom software firm works as their clients' on-demand engineering department, embedded in their business as a forward deployed team.

- Long-running client relationships, not fixed-scope projects
- One engineer leads each account and becomes the client's point person
- When the work needs more hands, that lead brings in engineers from their team and network of 50+ specialists
- Clients own everything they build from the moment it's written
- Fully Canada-based team

The Role Lead the engineering on a client account. You run the team, make the calls, write the code, and ship the work.

This is a senior seat for someone who wants ownership. There is no project manager holding it together for you. If you need a specialist or a second opinion, you ask for one. Otherwise, the account is yours.

What you'll do:

Lead the team

- Run a small team on each account: Thrive engineers, interns, and specialists brought in as the work needs them
- Break the work into a clear backlog, estimate it, and assign it
- Review code, unblock people, and keep the quality bar high
- Mentor junior developers so they get better every sprint

Own the client
- Be the client's main technical contact from day one
- Work out what the business actually needs, often starting with little or no brief
- Run weekly updates and demos, and handle the hard scope conversations directly
- Bring commercial or direction-changing decisions to leadership with a recommendation attached

Build it yourself
- Write production code every week: TypeScript, React, Node, AWS
- Integrate with whatever the client already runs
- Own the unglamorous parts: migrations, legacy auth, the import that has to be right




- Use AI coding tools to move faster without getting sloppy

What success looks like
- The work ships on the dates you set
- The client knows where things stand without having to ask
- Everyone on your team knows what they're working on today
- Problems surface early, with a plan to fix them
- The client keeps coming back with the next thing to build

What you bring Must-haves

- 5+ years building and running production software
- Experience leading developers, as a team lead or tech lead, through to a real release
- A track record of delivering for a client or stakeholder end to end without a project manager in the loop
- Strong in a modern web stack (TypeScript, React, Node) with real cloud experience (AWS preferred)
- Integration work with systems you didn't design
- Daily use of AI coding tools
- The ability to explain a trade-off to a non-technical founder in plain language

Nice-to-haves

- Agency, consulting or solutions engineering experience
- Infrastructure-as-code or CI/CD
- A second discipline: design, product, data or security
- Domain depth in logistics, healthcare, field services or manufacturing

What you get

- Real ownership from week one, across very different businesses
- Competitive senior salary for Western Canada, with transparent paths up
- Hybrid or remote, with flexible hours
- A learning budget

How to Apply Please submit your application directly on Indeed and upload your original resume (NOT an Indeed resume). You will receive a set of automated pre-screening questions after applying. Please respond to those questions. Only candidates who meet both role requirements and the Winning Edge Program eligibility based on the responses will be invited for an initial phone interview and eligibility assessment.

Pay: $40.00-$70.00 per hour

Expected hours: No more than 40.0 per week

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Calgary, AB

📌 Engineering Lead (Calgary)
🏢 MCG Careers
📍 Calgary