Engineering leader driving technical direction and execution of software development for Centah's SaaS platform. Collaborating across teams to enhance delivery, quality and engineering culture.
Responsibilities
Own the technical direction, architectural roadmap, and scaling strategy for Centah’s SaaS platform.
Champion organizational alignment through clear, consistent, and context-rich communication with the engineering team, executive leadership, and key stakeholders
Improve engineering execution through effective SDLC practices, delivery metrics, planning rhythms, and cross-functional communication.
Partner with Product to inform the quarterly roadmap priorities, balancing new functionality, platform modernization, technical maintenance, and operational risk.
Strengthen operational excellence across production support, incident response, observability, release management, and defect prevention.
Drive organizational health and high performance by administering regular performance cycles, defining outcome-based KPIs with the team, and using clear reporting to demonstrate the Development Team's ROI to executives
Evolve management practices to build and scale an empowered, highly connected engineering team, working alongside Development Managers and QAs to ensure timely delivery and alignment with career path expectations
Guide architectural decisions related to reliability, scalability, performance, data integrity, authorization boundaries, and multi-tenant SaaS design
Maintain and improve engineering practices that support SOC2 compliance, security, and responsible handling of customer data.
Use engineering and product metrics to communicate team impact, delivery health, and investment priorities to executive stakeholders.
Identify opportunities to optimize the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) across infrastructure, tooling, delivery practices, and engineering investments.
Requirements
5+ years of experience in engineering leadership, including direct management of software development, QA, and/or DevOps/platform engineering teams.
A degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent hands-on experience
Experience leading engineering teams of approximately 10–20 people across multiple workstreams, squads, or pods.
Strong architectural judgment with the ability to guide decisions around reliability, scalability, performance, security, data integrity, and maintainability.
Experience with cloud-based applications, preferably in AWS.
Familiarity with multi-tenant SaaS platforms and authorization boundaries.
Experience with Ruby on Rails or similar backend frameworks.
Experience with modern JavaScript frontend frameworks; Ember.js experience is a strong asset.
Strong understanding of CI/CD, automated testing, deployment pipelines, environment management, observability, logging, error monitoring, and production support.
Deep expertise in modern software development life cycles (SDLC) and agile delivery methodologies
Proven ability to partner with Product and business stakeholders to align technical decisions with company goals.
Strong people leadership skills, including coaching, mentoring, performance management, hiring, and team development.
Clear understanding of engineering and product metrics that drive delivery performance, quality, and business impact.
A genuine passion for team development and continuous improvement.
Benefits
An award-winning culture with a collaborative & inclusive team.
Competitive pay and performance-based bonus.
Base salary: $175,000 - $200,000
Annual bonus: 30%
Committed to flexible work arrangements, offering hybrid workplace options.
Comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage + Lifestyle Account.
RRSP Matching and Parental Leave Top UP Program.
In office massage & workout sessions.
Virtual events such as Lunch & Learns, company parties, fun team activities and charity initiatives.
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