Compensation: $125 K to $150 K + bonus + RRSP matchThe RoleYou'd be joining a small team of 4 that's about to double in size. 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.What You'll DoStay 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.Hold regular 1:1s and check-ins, and flag delays or blockers before they become surprises.Partner with the team's tester on coverage and test automation, especially for AI-driven features.Track tech debt and flag dependencies approaching end of support, with a clear line open to product.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 meetingsMentor and coach your team, including performance reviews.Build out team process and structure as headcount roughly doubles under you.Who You AreYou'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.You Must HaveProven 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.Robust architecture and systems design instincts.Experience working in an Agile environment.Solid foundation in C#/. NET (. NET 10), Type Script, and REST API design.Real CI/CD ownership.Cloud deployment experience (AWS preferred, but not mandatory).Unit and integration testing as second nature.It's a Bonus If You HaveVue 3 specifically.Mongo DB.Familiarity with other tools in the tech stack (outlined below)Experience navigating a team through active growth.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, Type Script, Vite, Tailwind, Reka UI, Vitest, PlaywrightCI/CD: Git Hub ActionsContainerization: DockerWhat Success Looks LikeFirst 30 days: mostly learning, the product, the roadmap, internal processes and tooling, the domain (CRM, banking, messaging systems, spec-driven development). Leaning on your manager and the product owner to ramp.By 60 days: real, low-risk production work, plus a clear read on your own gaps and a plan to close them.By 90 days: ramped to full capacity.6–12 months in: full partnership with product on rollouts and optimization, owning release traceability, and moving into higher-leverage work like optimizing client onboarding.Why JoinA 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.A small, close-knit team that supports each other.An opportunity to work at a startup pace, while still having the benefit of a stable, profitable, and growing company.$125 K to $150 K base + bonus + RRSP matchingPaid vacation starting at 3 weeks.Extended health care, dental, and life insurance.#J-18808-Ljbffr

📌 Software Engineering Team Lead (Winnipeg)
🏢 Sage Recruiting
📍 Winnipeg