Engineering Manager leading backend services, APIs, and distributed systems for Slice’s restaurant technology platform. Building high - performing teams that deliver measurable value to independent restaurants.
About the role
- Engineering Manager leading backend services, APIs, and databases for Tucows Domains, the world’s largest wholesale domain registrar. Managing engineers and driving reliable, secure platform delivery.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of engineers through recruiting, hiring, regular one-on-ones, feedback, career development, and performance management
- Own day-to-day engineering execution, including planning, prioritization, technical delivery, release coordination, and resolving blockers
- Provide hands-on technical leadership through architecture discussions, code reviews, troubleshooting, and contributions to production code
- Lead technical design and architecture decisions for the team's services, partnering with engineering leadership on broader platform strategy and cross-system initiatives
- Translate business and product requirements into actionable technical plans, balancing roadmap delivery, technical debt, and operational priorities
- Oversee the design and maintenance of services, applications, APIs, database schemas, and integrations
- Lead complex initiatives across multiple applications and services, coordinating dependencies with Product, Operations, QA, Design, and other teams
- Drive improvements in system reliability, performance, security, observability, and maintainability
- Lead technical incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvements to system reliability
- Establish and improve engineering practices, including automated testing, CI/CD, documentation, code quality, and release processes
- Leverage AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity, code quality, testing, and development workflows, while encouraging responsible adoption across the team
- Establish clear engineering goals and use delivery, quality, and reliability indicators to drive continuous improvement
- Develop technical ownership within the team, balancing hands-on involvement with effective delegation and mentorship
- Communicate engineering progress, technical decisions, risks, and operational concerns clearly to stakeholders
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong background in backend development, system design, and production applications
- 2+ years of engineering management experience, including direct people management, mentoring, and performance management
- Strong experience with Python, Go, or similar backend languages
- Experience designing RESTful APIs using frameworks such as FastAPI or Gin
- Experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL, including schema design and query optimization
- Experience designing, building, and operating highly available, reliable, and scalable services
- Strong technical judgment and hands-on software development experience, including contributions to production code and technical problem-solving
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to explain technical decisions, trade-offs, and risks to technical and nontechnical stakeholders
- Experience managing engineering delivery, technical priorities, and cross-team dependencies
- Experience with Agile software development methodologies, including Scrum, Kanban, or similar approaches
- Demonstrated experience using AI-assisted software development tools, including appropriate validation and security practices
- Experience with automated testing, Continuous Integration, Git, and modern development workflows
- Experience supporting production systems, troubleshooting complex issues, and leading incident response
- Experience leading and collaborating with geographically distributed engineering teams
Benefits
- Generous benefits as part of a total rewards offering
- Remote-first work arrangement
- Flexible work philosophy
- Reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities
- Inclusive workplace committed to diversity, fairness, and equality
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