Software Developer Manager

Lotlinx•Oakville, ON

6d•CA$135,000 - CA$150,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Lotlinx is seeking a dedicated leader to manage, mentor, and develop the AI Platform team, which is the backbone of the company's transformation towards an Agentic AI approach. This hybrid leadership role requires a player/coach who will split their time between people leadership & project management (60%) and hands-on technical guidance & architecture (40%). The manager will be responsible for ensuring team productivity, partnering with Product Management to define the roadmap, and providing architectural vision and mentorship to build scalable, reliable, and cutting-edge solutions.

Requirements

4+ years of experience in a direct management role, leading a team of software engineers.
Strong technical background and demonstrable experience working on AI/ML-driven products.
Understanding of the ML lifecycle and the practical challenges of building AI systems.
Deep, practical experience designing, building, and maintaining complex microservice-based architectures.
Strong proficiency in Python AND/OR Java, with professional comfort working in both.
Proven, hands-on experience with AWS services and container orchestration using Kubernetes.

Nice To Haves

Direct, hands-on experience with LLM orchestration frameworks like LangChain.
Familiarity with React frontends.
A strong interest or background in Agentic AI principles and RAG architectures.
Experience in the automotive industry or a similar field with massive, complex datasets.

Responsibilities

Manage the performance and career growth of a 5-person engineering team.
Provide continuous feedback, coaching, and mentorship.
Own the team's technical roadmap and agile processes.
Work closely with product managers and stakeholders to translate ambitious business goals into an actionable, prioritized backlog.
Serve as the primary point of contact for your team, managing dependencies, clearing roadblocks, and fostering a culture of collaboration and accountability.
Effectively communicate your team's progress, technical vision, and challenges to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Skillfully manage team dynamics and facilitate healthy, constructive resolutions to disagreements.
Lead technical design reviews and guide the team in building robust, scalable microservices on AWS.
Stay in the code: Review PRs, spike new technologies, and contribute to critical components.
Own the technical stack, ensuring effective leverage of Python, Java, AWS, Kubernetes, and LangChain.
Instill best practices for code quality, testing, CI/CD, and observability within your team.