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Engineering Manager, Software

4 months, 1 week ago

Canada

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Engineering Manager

Software Development

Apache Airflow LLM Machine Learning

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Description

Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers building catalog enrichment platforms and ML data interfaces.
Define and execute the technical roadmap, balancing platform investment with reliability, observability, and developer experience.
Build and operate AI-native enrichment pipelines that combine LLMs, classical ML, rules, workflow orchestration, and human review.
Drive the evolution toward autonomous pipeline construction using plain-language goals and system-generated workflows.
Own the ML-facing catalog data layer, including canonical product metadata and policy controls for data use.
Partner with ML, search, ads, commerce, operations, and retailer teams to streamline end-to-end data flows.
Advocate for readable controls around source prioritization, rights management, licensing, and compliance.
Improve developer and operator productivity through AI-assisted testing, investigation tooling, and on-call automation.
Set and meet SLAs for core attributes and model usage.
Contribute to architecture discussions, design reviews, and code reviews, especially in exploratory areas.

Requirements

7+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years managing engineers as a people leader.
Experience leading production data or ML platforms, including batch and streaming components.
Strong foundation in distributed systems, data pipelines, and workflow orchestration.
Demonstrated build/buy/partner decision-making experience.
Experience owning data quality, coverage, or compliance commitments.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical work to diverse audiences.
Experience with catalog, commerce, or product data platforms operating at large scale (preferred).
Hands-on experience with workflow orchestration systems such as Temporal, Airflow, or Flink (preferred).
Experience shipping applied AI/ML features in production and weighing trade-offs across LLMs, classical ML, deterministic rules, and human review (preferred).
Familiarity with data governance, rights management, and licensing controls in multi-stakeholder environments (preferred).

Benefits

Remote Flex First work environment with flexibility to work from home, an office, or another location.
Highly market-competitive compensation.
Base salary range of $196,000 to $207,000 CAD for Canadian candidates.
Eligible for a new hire equity grant.
Eligible for annual refresh equity grants.
Hiring currently available in Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia.

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