Xplore Inc. is Canada’s fibre, 5 G and satellite broadband company for rural living. Xplore is committed to the relentless pursuit of an improved broadband experience for all Canadians. Xplore is building a world-class fibre optic and 5 G wireless network to enable innovative broadband services for better every day rural living, for today and future generations.
We are looking for an experienced Senior Engineering Manager to lead and grow a team of software developers as we embark on a company-wide transformation. This is your chance to use cutting edge tools to build software applications of the future – driving a technical vision while leading teams to deliver on modern digital and operational capabilities across key Telecom domains such as Digital, Field, Ordering, and OSS.

Key responsibilities
Lead multiple software developers across cross-functional Agile teams, ensuring consistent delivery of business value, predictable execution, and solid engineering disciplineDrive AI adoption, modernization of applications, and integrations across Telecom domains (such as Digital, Field, Ordering, OSS), aligning delivery with platform and enterprise architecture directionEstablish and evolve engineering practices for cloud-native delivery on Azure, including CI/CD, automated testing, observability, secure-by-design, and operational readinessPractice servant leadership by supporting developers and technical leads through hiring, performance development, career paths, mentoring, and ensuring a culture of accountability, learning, and inclusionCollaborate with product owners, business leaders and partners on roadmap execution, capacity planning, dependency management, and risk/issue escalation across teams and vendors/partnersEnsure solutions meet non‑functional requirements including performance, security,



resiliency, scalability, data integrity, and compliance while adopting modern software development principles, frameworks and platformsThe ideal candidate will possess
Required Qualifications8+ years in software engineering roles with 3+ years leading teams (people leadership and delivery accountability) in a product‑centric or Agile delivery environmentProven experience delivering enterprise systems and integrations in complex, cross‑functional environmentsStrong technical background with modern application development, APIs/integration patterns, and cloud fundamentals (preferably Azure)Demonstrated experience building software that accounts for performance, observability and securityDemonstrated ability to improve delivery outcomes (quality, cycle time, reliability) using metrics, continuous improvement, and pragmatic engineering practicesExcellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to translate between business outcomes and technical executionTechnical QualificationsWorking experience building and maintaining Microservices and Web API services using technologies like Graph QL, g RPC, REST, SOAP XMLWorking experience building and maintaining customer facing UIs using React JS, Next JS, Vue JS, Angular, and/or other JS frameworksDemonstrated understanding of event driven architectures and messaging services using tools such as Azure Service Bus, AWS SNS/SQS,



Google Pub/Sub, Kafka, Rabbit MQ, and/or equivalent technologiesWorking experience with Azure, AWS and/or GCP using managed servicesStrong understanding of containerized application development and management using tools such as Kubernetes, Docker, and/or Open ShiftStorage Technologies: Databricks, Cosmos DB, SQL Server, Postgre SQL, Redis, Mongo DB, Dynamo DB and/or other equivalent technologiesObservability Platforms: Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace, ELKCI/CD tooling: Azure Dev Ops pipelines, Git Hub actions, Jenkins, Argo CDAI Tooling: Git Hub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code and/or other equivalent technologiesStrong understanding of Cloud Native principles and frameworksPreferred QualificationsExperience working with Salesforce Marketing and Service CloudExperience in Telecom OSS/BSS domains and customer lifecycle processesFamiliarity with TM ForumExperience leading modernization initiatives (legacy decomposition, platform migration, integration modernization, domain/platform realignment).
Exposure to SRE/production operations practices (SLIs/SLOs, incident management, runbooks, post‑incident reviews, operational automation).
Experience working with distributed teams and vendors/partnersCondition of Employment
As a condition of employment and in order to comply with industry related data security standards, this position is subject to the successful completion of a Criminal Background Check. Details will be supplied to applicants as they move through the selection process.
Xplore is committed to creating an accessible environment and will accommodate disabilities during the selection process. Please let your recruiter know during the selection process of any accommodation needs.

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