Engineering Manager, Applications Jobs

About the Role

Athennian offers the most advanced platform for managing corporate structure records. The world’s largest law firms and corporations use our products to manage their corporate records, governance and workflows. Our vision is to establish Athennian as the go-to platform for all critical business workflows for corporate finance, legal, compliance and tax teams, and keep them transaction ready.

As the Manager for the Applications team, you are well versed in all aspects of Software Development, best practices and have managed small teams before. We're looking for someone that is able to make large architectural decisions with enthusiasm, decisions that help make Athennian’s stack more robust and efficient; capable of selecting, developing, and implementing core technologies across a variety of projects (front-end and back-end), and passionate about bringing teams together in a supportive and pleasant environment to work together in solving technical issues. You'll also work with the Product Managers team to balance new feature development with operational work, and technical debt. Doing all this while supporting your direct reports to help them grow in their careers.

Location

We have embraced a distributed model of working to reach the best talent in Canada. While some roles may require proximity to our Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver offices, roles based outside our office locations can be remote in Canada. Ideally, we are looking for someone to come into the office on a hybrid schedule.

What you'll be doing

• In partnership with the Product Managers, develop, execute and influence the product roadmap
• Driving innovation by coming up with new and innovative ideas for our application and processes
• Design, code and test technical solutions with performance and security in mind
• Empower the engineering team to design, implement, deliver and support the applications that will push our business forward
• Encourage programing standards by creating reusable, testable and maintainable code
• Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies and processes to ensure the highest quality product platform
• Understand and communicate the business domain, and how it affects requirement and implementation detail
• Contribute to technical documentation which clearly communicate design ideas, functionality and optimization
• Improve code quality and foster a culture of strong engineering design, delivery and quality
• Engineering management and mentorship of 1 - 2 cross-functional, agile engineering teams

What you bring

• Proficiency in one or more frameworks (React, Vue, Angular)
• Excel in a fast paced startup-like development environment
• Active listening and respect for others opinions and ideas
• 3+ years of engineering management experience
• Demonstrated success in coaching and mentoring others
• Strong understanding of the principles of scalable application design
• Proven experience as a Senior Full Stack Engineer or similar role
• Very good communication, mentoring and leadership skills
• Excellent knowledge working with relational and non-relational databases (MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• Comfortable working in a Linux environment
• Experience with NodeJS and Express
• Experience with developing or delivering web services, applications, and API’s
• Passion and drive to help the team improve and deliver great products

This position reports to: VP, Engineering

Our Culture

We believe incredible teams can solve any problem and we strive to be an inclusive workplace where ideas thrive. We are first and foremost an organization of people who are passionate about learning, building, and sharing software to transform the legal industry. Our team members thrive when they’re passionate about what they do. We strive to create an engaging environment with challenging tasks, foster meaningful relationships with colleagues, and encourage each other to become the best we can be. Whether you want to customize your workspace, share your latest hobby with the team, or broaden your horizons with a specific project, we have a wealth of opportunities to keep you growing and learning. We’re here to help you become the best version of yourself, all while having fun and connecting with coworkers.

Diligent Builder: Ability to design and build scalable systems

Focused Creative: Strategic mind with a solution first attitude and uses data to navigate the next steps

Ambitious Learner: Eager to take on new challenges and present innovative solutions

Champion Mindset: We set ambitious goals and hustle to make them happen

Benefits at Athennian

We offer competitive benefits and perks because we believe that happy people produce great results. We are always adding to this list based on employee feedback: generous vacation/sick/flex days, remote work options, flexible working hours, health/dental/vision/group life/gRRSP/LTD/AD&D/EFAP benefits , high growth environment, team-building, day-to-day variety (never a dull moment), MacBook for all employees, stock options, and a culture of transparency.