Engineering Manager 2

📋 Description

• • Lead and inspire a high-performing team of 6-10 software engineers in our Toronto hub, setting clear technical direction and career growth paths while embodying Homebase’s “Win Together” value.
• • Own the end-to-end delivery of AI-powered products that directly accelerate the velocity of 100,000+ small businesses—from intelligent scheduling and payroll forecasting to real-time labor optimization—ensuring every release raises the bar for customer impact.
• • Translate ambitious product visions into executable engineering roadmaps, balancing rapid experimentation with rock-solid reliability; you’ll define quarterly OKRs, manage capacity, and ruthlessly prioritize features that move the needle for hourly teams.
• • Foster AI fluency across your squad by championing the adoption of cutting-edge models, tooling, and best practices; run internal workshops, pair-programming sessions, and hack-days that turn curiosity into production-grade innovation.
• • Collaborate daily with Product, Design, Data Science, and Customer Success in a truly cross-functional environment; you’ll represent engineering in strategic planning, negotiate trade-offs, and ensure technical decisions map to customer pain points and revenue goals.
• • Instill a culture of continuous delivery and operational excellence: implement robust CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and observability standards that keep our systems resilient as we scale to the next million workers.
• • Mentor engineers at all levels—from new-grads to staff engineers—through regular 1:1s, actionable feedback, and personalized development plans; track progress against growth frameworks and celebrate promotions that reflect our “Master Your Craft” principle.
• • Drive rigorous technical reviews and architecture decisions, ensuring every solution is secure, performant, and maintainable; you’ll hold the quality bar high while still empowering teams to “Move Fast, Learn Fast.”
• • Act as a force multiplier by removing blockers, streamlining processes, and advocating for the right tooling; whether it’s negotiating cloud costs or refining sprint rituals, you’ll optimize for flow and focus time.
• • Champion diversity, equity, and inclusion within the team and across Homebase; you’ll lead inclusive hiring practices, sponsor under-represented groups, and cultivate psychological safety so every Homie can bring their full self to work.
• • Represent Homebase externally by speaking at meetups, contributing to open-source projects, and sharing engineering blog posts that showcase our AI innovations and engineering culture.
• • Own production incident response and post-mortems, turning failures into learning opportunities that strengthen both systems and team resilience.
• • Partner with Finance and Legal to ensure compliance with Canadian data-privacy regulations and labor standards, embedding security-by-design into every feature.
• • Continuously measure customer impact through A/B tests, usage analytics, and direct feedback loops, iterating rapidly to maximize value for small-business owners and their teams.