Engineering Manager

RBC • Toronto, ON

27d • Onsite

About The Position

We're seeking an Engineering Manager to lead and mentor a team of 5-8 full-stack engineers building financial tools for the next generation. You'll balance hands-on technical leadership with people management, maintaining your coding skills while driving team excellence through code quality, process improvement, and developer empowerment. This role is ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of technical depth and team development. We're looking for talented and experienced leaders who can grow a positive, inclusive and supportive culture focused on engineering excellence and delighting customers. You'll foster an environment where engineers learn and develop their skills, and where the team obsesses about quality and maintains a proven track record of shipping great products.

Requirements

• 3+ years of software engineering management experience or 5+ years as a senior engineer transitioning into management
• Deep technical expertise in full-stack development (ideally TypeScript, NestJS, React Native, or similar modern stacks)
• Proven track record of improving code quality and establishing development standards
• Strong people management skills, ability to mentor, coach, and develop engineers at various levels
• Experience driving process improvements and building scalable development practices
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams (engineering, product, design)
• Demonstrated ability to enable and empower teams rather than micromanage
• Comfort with hands-on technical work while balancing management responsibilities
• Background in financial services or fintech

Nice To Haves

• Experience managing distributed or remote teams
• Familiarity with AWS, CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions), and monitoring tools
• Experience scaling teams from 5 to 10+ engineers
• Knowledge of performance optimization and system scalability at scale
• Native development in iOS/Android
• Rapid development using AI workflows

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of 5-8 full-stack engineers, providing career growth, technical guidance, and constructive feedback
• Maintain technical credibility by staying hands-on, participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and occasional feature development to stay current with the stack
• Drive code quality through establishing and enforcing best practices, conducting thorough PR reviews, and fostering a culture of ownership and excellence
• Champion process improvement by identifying bottlenecks, proposing solutions, and continuously refining development workflows (testing strategy, CI/CD, deployment processes, etc.)
• Enable and empower developers by removing blockers, advocating for their growth, and creating psychological safety for innovation and experimentation
• Collaborate across product and design to ensure technical feasibility, scalability, and timely delivery of complex features
• Contribute strategically to architectural decisions and technical direction alongside your team
• Build and scale the team as needed, participating in hiring and onboarding
• Support the team through on-call rotations, driving incident remediation, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement from incidents

Benefits

• Bonuses
• Flexible benefits
• Competitive compensation
• Commissions
• Stock where applicable
• Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive and high-performing team
• A world-class training program in financial services
• Flexible work/life balance options
• Opportunities to do challenging work

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed