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Guide cross-functional engineering teams in product development, maintain roadmaps, hire and mentor staff, and ensure quality standards are met.
KUBRA is seeking an experienced Manager, Product Engineering to join our growing team!
In this strategic and hands-on leadership role, you will guide a team of cross-functional engineers in developing, maintaining, and enhancing our product portfolio. You’ll work closely with the Product Manager to ensure engineering efforts align with KUBRA’s business goals, driving innovation, efficiency, and quality throughout the product development lifecycle.
If you’re passionate about leading engineering teams, shaping product strategy, and delivering exceptional solutions, we want to hear from you!
This is a hybrid opportunity in Mississauga, ON.
What you get to do every day!
- Plan, balance, and execute sprints containing bug fixes, feature requests, and new product development
- Help maintain product roadmaps for the team’s portfolio of products along with the Product Manager
- Develop a strong understanding of the products in the engineering team’s portfolio and be able to act a resource for questions about all aspects of those products
- Ensure that any necessary documentation is written and maintained by the engineering team
- Hire, train, coach, mentor, and develop staff, including conducting performance reviews and providing constructive feedback through employee recognition, rewards, and disciplinary action with the assistance of Human Resources when necessary
- Maintain professional and technical knowledge by following the broader industry, attending management-focused training sessions and educational workshops
- Create and maintain a workplace culture that is consistent with the overall organization with an emphasis on the KUBRA mission, vision, guiding principles, and values
- Maintain and enforce quality and service standards, analyze and resolve issues, identify trends, and recommend improvements
- Manage a number of products and tasks using a variety of technologies
- Participate in on-call rotations in accordance with team requirements
- •Lead the team in achieving strategic goals and departmental objectives while fostering accountability and continuous improvement.
- •Foster an environment that emphasizes trust, open communication, creative thinking, and cohesive team effort
- Contribute to roadmap development, execution, and releases
- Contribute to the code and architecture of a highly concurrent, high-throughput system on the AWS cloud
- Work with other engineering teams via “Guilds” of functional skill sets (Back-End,
- Front-End, Security, QA, Agile) to develop departmental standards for those functions.
- Achieve staff results by clearly communicating job expectations, coaching, counseling, mentoring, and even disciplining employees if they fail to meet clearly communicated expectations and productivity goals.
What kind of person should you be?
- Proficiency in .NET Core technologies
- Microservices experience
- Familiarity with Linux-based systems
- Proficiency in Cloud-based architectures
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes and Docker
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills and an ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in all communications
- Leadership and management skills – the ability to attract, retain, motivate, mentor, and develop team members to perform to their highest potential
- Project management skills – the ability to plan and manage successful projects; including managing risks, costs, time, and roadmaps
- Excellent organization, time management, problem-solving, and analytical skills
- Ability to handle pressure and focus on results
What skills do you need?
- 8-10 years of experience in Software Engineering
- 1-2 years of leadership experience managing teams or leading complex projects, with a strong understanding of Agile practices.
- .NET Core experience
- Microservices experience
- Experience with Cloud Services is required (AWS, GCP, Azure, PCF, etc.) experience with Amazon AWS cloud services (EC2, RDS, S3, SQS…) is preferred
What can you expect from us?
- Award-winning culture that fosters growth, diversity and inclusion for all
- Annual performance-based bonus
- Flexible schedules
- Paid day off for your birthday
- Two paid days for volunteer opportunities
- Generous benefit coverage with low premiums (+ a Health Care Spending Account)
- RRSP Matching
- Free unlimited access to our refreshment stations (fully stocked with tea, coffee and other beverages)
- A free premium membership for ‘Headspace’; an app geared towards mental health and wellbeing
- Access to Perkopolis retail discounts
- Access to LinkedIn learning courses
- Continued education with our education reimbursement program
KUBRA is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce. We will provide accommodations during the recruitment process upon request by emailing [email protected]. Information received relating to accommodation will be addressed confidentially. We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only candidates under consideration will be contacted.
While we value the skills and experiences listed in our job requirements, we also recognize that talent comes in many forms, and welcome applications from candidates who meet most but not all specified requirements. If you possess a strong desire to learn and grow in a dynamic work environment, apply now!
KUBRA is a fast-growing company that delivers customer communications solutions to some of the largest utility, insurance, and government entities across North America. KUBRA offers billing and payments, mapping, mobile apps, proactive communications, and artificial intelligence solutions for customers. With more than 1.5 billion customer interactions annually, KUBRA services reach over 40% of households in the U.S. and Canada. KUBRA is an operating subsidiary of Hearst.
Our office is small enough to allow creative individuals to flourish, yet large enough to provide long-term stability. We place a tremendous amount of responsibility on our team members to be productive, focused and self-motivated. We offer a casual work environment, competitive compensation and a stellar benefits program.
KUBRA does not typically provide immigration-related assistance, including employment-based work visa (e.g. H-1B) sponsorship, work permit applications and extensions, permanent residence (green card) sponsorship, LMIA applications or permanent residency nominations. Candidates must ensure they have legal authorization to work in the U.S/ Canada. All sponsorship determinations are case by case based on business need.
Top Skills
.Net Core
AWS
Azure
Ci/Cd
Docker
GCP
Kubernetes
Microservices
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