Position Overview We’re looking for a seasoned, hands-on Software Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing full-stack engineering team supporting our horizontal services and core technology platforms.

In this role, you’ll balance technical leadership with people management while guiding engineers through complex architectural decisions, delivering scalable solutions, and driving technical strategy across core domains. You’ll partner closely with Product Management, Visual Design, and engineering teams to translate business requirements into reliable, scalable, and developer-friendly solutions.

This is a hands-on leadership opportunity where you’ll mentor and grow engineers, remove technical and delivery blockers, communicate project health and risks to stakeholders, and drive engineering excellence across up-to-date application and platform environments.

The ideal candidate brings strong software engineering fundamentals, robust backend infrastructure experience, and experience building and scaling (CMS), experimentation frameworks, and self-service platforms.

Responsibilities

Lead, mentor, and support the growth of a high-performing full-stack engineering team

Foster an inclusive, collaborative environment that empowers engineers to make autonomous technical decisions

Own project delivery, including roadmap execution, planning, risk management, and operational follow-through

Provide regular project status updates, metrics, progress reporting, and risk assessments to cross-functional stakeholders and leadership

Proactively identify and resolve technical and project bottlenecks, escalating issues effectively to keep initiatives on track

Partner closely with Product Management, Visual Design,



and engineering teams to align priorities and deliver business outcomes

Drive technical direction and architectural decisions for core horizontal services and platforms

Champion strong software engineering principles, code quality, scalability, maintainability, and system reliability

Design and scale distributed systems, microservices, and RESTful APIs

Guide engineering teams in developing resilient, scalable, and maintainable backend services

Promote engineering best practices across architecture, development, testing, deployment, and operational excellence

Oversee the development and scaling of experimentation frameworks, (CMS), and self-service workflows

Build platforms and tools that enable engineering teams and internal customers to work more efficiently and independently

Partner with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities for automation, scalability, and improved developer experiences

Drive technical solutions that support evolving business requirements and high-scale application environments

Design and support event-driven architectures and distributed systems

Work with streaming and messaging technologies such as Kafka

Guide the development of reliable APIs, microservices, and asynchronous workflows

Evaluate and improve system scalability, performance, reliability,



and operational resilience

Minimum Qualifications

3+ years of people leadership experience managing and developing software engineers

10+ years of total software engineering experience

Strong foundation in computer science, software architecture, and software design principles

Proven experience leading engineering teams through complex technical projects and delivering business-critical solutions

Strong experience designing and scaling distributed systems, microservices, and RESTful APIs

Experience with event-driven development and streaming/messaging technologies such as Kafka

Strong understanding of modern frontend ecosystems, including React

Experience with modern (CMS)

Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Java, Python, or Node.js

Strong communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate project health, technical risks, dependencies, and escalation resolutions to stakeholders and leadership

Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with Product, Design, and Engineering organizations

Preferred Qualifications

Experience building or operating experimentation or A/B testing platforms

Experience developing self-service platforms and internal engineering tools

Experience with large-scale content management platforms and workflows

Strong understanding of cloud-native application architecture and distributed infrastructure

Experience with asynchronous processing, event-driven systems, and messaging architectures

Experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives spanning multiple engineering teams

Experience improving developer p

📌 Software Development Manager, Horizontal Services (Toronto)
🏢 Autodesk
📍 Toronto