Vendasta Hiring for Engineering Manager (Remote Friendly) at Toronto, ON Full Time

At Vendasta, we believe in helping great local businesses survive and thrive in a world that’s more competitive than ever—and we’re growing our team! This is an opportunity to join one of the fastest growing tech companies in Canada and make a direct impact on local economies worldwide. In a world where local businesses all over the globe have had their livelihoods turned upside down, Vendasta continues to help them embrace digital solutions and flourish.

Vendasta is a certified Great Place to Work and Best Workplace™ for Today’s Youth and Women. Keep reading if you’d like to join us on our mission to support small businesses all over the world.

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About the Job*
We are looking for an Engineering Manager to improve the effectiveness of all of R&D, and its development teams. They will focus on ensuring development/infrastructure standards and processes to create software products that are continually evaluated and refined. They are responsible for creating a high performing/high-velocity organization as Vendasta evolves and grows as a business.

The Vendasta platform enables cloud brokers a unified experience to help enable their customers with digital solutions. Being part of the team means that you get to help drive the development processes that allow our software developers to build and support the infrastructure of the platform.

If the opportunity to be a leader in culture, recruitment, staff management, and career growth excites you, this is the opportunity for you!

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The impact you’ll have*

• Manage 2-3 software teams
• Foster culture of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback and metrics for teams and individual contributors
• Assist in the recruitment process to build a strong cross-functional organization
• Manage the engineering staff’s professional development, training, career path, promotion and appraisals
• Establish relevant and beneficial metrics that monitor, report and drive business results
• Ensuring health of the system by managing defects and technical debt, and prioritizing and scheduling this work into team Sprints
• Drive strong communication and transparency between individuals, teams, and management
• Work with other Engineering Managers, General Manager, Chief Technology Officer, Product Managers, Designers, Product Marketers and Senior Developers to ensure we are building the best product for our customers, with the right process
• Assist in the preparation of government funding initiatives such as Scientific Research and Experimental Development tax credit
• Developer on-call oversight

The value you’ll bring

• 3+ years experience managing agile software teams, ideally managing between 8 and 12 developers across multiple teams
• 5+ years experience as a software developer
• Bachelor’s degree in software engineering or computer science considered an asset
• Experience or strong understanding with high scalability, data-intensive, distributed Internet applications
• Ability to generate support for a company/team decision to help drive objectives
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information clearly and concisely to a variety of audiences
• Bias for action, while dealing well with ambiguity

About Vendasta
So what do we actually do? We create an entire platform full of digital products & solutions that help small to medium sized businesses (SMBs) have a stronger presence online through digital advertising, online listings, reputation management, website creation, social media marketing … and much more! Our platform is used exclusively by channel partners, who sell products and services to SMBs, allowing them to leverage us to scale and grow their business. We’re trusted by 60,000+ channel partners, serving over 5.5 million small to medium businesses worldwide!

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Perks*

• Benefits – health, dental, life, and disability insurance, an employee assistance program (EAP)*, and $500 annual Health Spending Account. Premiums for health & dental insurance will be covered by Vendasta!
• Vacation – Minimum 3 weeks paid vacation per year; uncapped sick time policy.
• Employee Options Program – get in on Vendasta’s growth and success!
• Sweet Eats – On site cafeteria with beverages & snacks all day and free catered lunch every Friday
• Training & Career Development – Education reimbursement program, professional development plans, leadership workshops, mentorship program, and so much more!
• Culture – comprised of our core values: Drive, Innovation, Respect, and Agility
• Social Events – Ideas on Tap, ski trips, virtual talent shows, yoga classes, and more!
• Giving Back – endless opportunities to take part in programs and initiatives that give back to the community we work in, including paid volunteer time.

Job Type: Full-time