Engineering Manager

Xero•Vancouver, BC

30d•CA$188,000 - CA$236,000•Hybrid

About The Position

You will step into a foundational leadership position designed to spearhead a cultural renewal and drive a pivotal technological transition for a distributed engineering team. As the founding leader for our new Vancouver hub, you will guide a talented group of engineers, moving away from isolated work streams towards a predictable, well-planned delivery cadence. Your focus will be on improving team planning, estimation, and communication, ensuring the technical roadmap is executed smoothly while maintaining high quality. Your technical impact will center on supporting a company-wide transition from legacy Microsoft SQL Server environment to modern, open-source solutions. You will take ownership of building internal compliance and observability tools that empower product teams across the business to independently manage and operate their databases. By shielding your team from external pressures and resolving critical dependencies, you will create an environment where engineering excellence can thrive at scale.

Requirements

Strong background in systems design and scaling, ideally gained within high-scale cloud, platform, or monitoring organizations.
Aptitude for AI tooling and a passion for staying ahead of modern technological trends.
Inclusive leadership style that allows you to listen to, learn from, and build alongside a senior team before introducing major changes.
Exceptional stakeholder management skills to clear roadblocks, manage external pressures, and communicate delivery timelines predictably.
Proven technical depth, allowing you to confidently audit complex technical work and maintain system health without micromanaging.
Proactive approach to delivery planning to bring structure, better estimation practices, and alignment to distributed engineering groups.

Responsibilities

Spearhead a cultural renewal and drive a pivotal technological transition for a distributed engineering team.
Guide a talented group of engineers, moving away from isolated work streams towards a predictable, well-planned delivery cadence.
Improve team planning, estimation, and communication.
Ensure the technical roadmap is executed smoothly while maintaining high quality.
Support a company-wide transition from legacy Microsoft SQL Server environment to modern, open-source solutions.
Take ownership of building internal compliance and observability tools that empower product teams across the business to independently manage and operate their databases.
Shield your team from external pressures and resolve critical dependencies.
Support the migrating core services away from legacy Microsoft SQL Server technologies over to Aurora Postgres and DynamoDB.
Construct and scale internal compliance and observability tools to enable decentralized database ownership for product teams.
Utilize AI technologies to gather and surface intelligent insights to product teams to allow them to confidently own and evolve their databases.
Establish fresh team processes, refine sprint estimation, and establish a unified, collaborative culture following recent turnover.