Compensation: $125K to $150K + bonus + RRSP match Expect to stay genuinely hands-on: 60–70% of your time is coding, architecture, and system design, even as the team scales under you. The rest is running the team well, agile ceremonies, 1:1s, tech-debt tracking, and representing the team's technical decisions in leadership conversations. Stay hands-on: ~60–70% of your time is coding, architecture, and system design, even as the team scales. Own the backlog with the team's product owner: grooming, estimation, and sprint planning. Partner with the team's tester on coverage and test automation, especially for AI-driven features. Own high-level system architecture and end-to-end workflow design, and explain both clearly to technical and non-technical audiences. Represent the team's technical decisions in bi-weekly leadership meetings Mentor and coach your team, including performance reviews. You're a proven technical lead who's already done this, not someone looking for their first shot at it. You're genuinely AI-native in how you build, comfortable owning architecture and system design, and you communicate risk and tradeoffs before they become someone else's surprise. Proven Team Lead

experience:
system design and architecture ownership, backlog management and reporting, engineering workflow optimization, presenting and defending timelines to leadership, performance conversations,



coaching and mentoring engineers. Hands-on experience with agentic AI workflows in development, not just using an AI chat assistant. Experience working in an Agile environment. Solid foundation in C#/.
NET (.
NET 10), TypeScript, and REST API design. Cloud deployment experience (AWS preferred, but not mandatory). Unit and integration testing as second nature. It's a Bonus If You Have Formal performance-review experience (we'll support you here if you're newer to it). Startup background, full software development lifecycle ownership, self-directed learning style. Frontend: Vue 3, TypeScript, Vite, Tailwind, RekaUI, Vitest, Playwright First 30 days: mostly learning, the product, the roadmap, internal processes and tooling, the domain (CRM, banking, messaging systems, spec-driven development). By 60 days: real, low-risk production work, plus a explicit read on your own gaps and a plan to close them. A real career ladder with clear steps and objectives: next stop is Staff-level developer, then a fork into your choice of architecture or management. A genuinely AI-native team, not AI-curious: you'd be living spec-driven, agentic development day to day. 125K to $150K base + bonus + RRSP matching Paid vacation starting at 3 weeks. Extended health care, dental, and life insurance. #

📌 Software Development Engineering, Team Lead (Canada)
🏢 Sage Recruiting
📍 Canada