Location: Toronto, Ontario

Our client is more than a global e-commerce leader — they’re changing the way the world shops and sells. Their platform empowers millions of buyers and sellers in more than 190 markets around the world. They’re committed to pushing boundaries and leaving their mark as they reinvent the future of e-commerce for enthusiasts.

Their customers are their compass, authenticity thrives, bold ideas are welcome, and everyone can bring their unique selves to work — every day. They're in this together, sustaining the future of their customers, their company, and our planet.

Join a team of passionate thinkers, innovators, and dreamers — and help them connect people and build communities to create economic opportunity for all.

Our client is the leading collectibles marketplace platform, with millions of customers globally. Their mission is to be the most trusted destination for collectors of trading cards, memorabilia, comics, video games and more.

To accomplish this, they always put collectors first and hire the very best to join their team. The company would not be what it is today without its amazing employees — from consignment directors to customer support and everyone in between. They take great pride in hiring and developing top talent who can add to their culture and believe in their mission and vision.

This is an exciting opportunity to work in a growing market—and have a lot of fun doing it.

About the team and the role:

Their Buyer Experience engineering team is looking for a seasoned Engineering Manager to work with as they redefine the face of the company. You’ll be working with a world-class team of engineers, designers, product managers, and analysts to create great products that make a difference on one of the world’s most trafficked and loved websites.

The ideal candidate will possess a good balance of technology and people management skills; lead with empathy; has a keen desire to deeply understand their products and services to push their technology forward with respect to functionality, performance, reliability, and scalability.

The ideal candidate has a deep understanding of building large-scale applications, low-latency APIs, and data pipelines, and a high focus on capability-oriented architecture. As the lead engineer, you will supervise aspects of the software lifecycle: design, development, testing and experimentation.

What You will accomplish:

1. Lead a talented full-stack team of backend and frontend engineers.
2. Mentor and guide the development of your team members in a tailored empathetic manner suited for each individual.
3. Build collaborative and inclusive teams.
4. Own your team's deliverables and ship high-quality, maintainable software.
5. Build and maintain a healthy prioritized backlog in alignment with the team goals.
6. Collaborate with product managers, business units, and analytics to brainstorm and build the next generation of the product and scale it.
7. Layout technical vision for the team.
8. Push the bar to solve complex technical challenges of scale and performance.
9. Maintain a balance between short-term and long-term goals while shipping high-impact products quickly.
10. Partner effectively and influence peers and senior leadership both within the organization and across the company.
11. Drive the adoption of cloud services, recommending the best AWS tools and services for each application's requirements.
12. Ensure security best practices are coordinated into the development and deployment processes.
13. Stay ascertain of new AWS services, Python development, and architectural standard methodologies.
14. AWS features and technologies, integrating them into solutions to improve performance and scalability.
15. Lead by example, giving high-quality code reviews, and encouraging a culture of excellence and continuous improvement.

What You will bring:

1. Bachelor’s degree and 12+ years experience (or) an MS in Computer Science and 10+ years of software design experience.
2. 3+ years of experience managing a small to medium-sized team of developers.
3. Experience leading or managing a small to medium-sized team of developers.
4. Experience in building large-scale distributed systems with high availability, scalability and resilience.
5. Experience applying machine learning in a user-facing environment like personalization, ranking, or recommendations is a plus.
6. Proven results-oriented person with a focus on delivery in a high-velocity environment.
7. Great communication skills and ability to articulate thoughts and proposals clearly.
8. Experienced working in Agile teams.
9. Ability to grasp new areas; and adapt to changes.
10. Familiarity with e-commerce is a plus.
11. Must have expertise in Python with a deep knowledge of its ecosystems and frameworks. Knowledge of Java is a plus.
12. Strong experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, Cognito, EKS, Open Search, DynamoDB, Lambda, Kinesis, and CloudFormation.
13. Proficient in microservices, event-driven architecture and container orchestration tools (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker).
14. Design & Implemented CI/CD pipelines using AWS native services (CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodeCommit).
15. Knowledge of networking, security, and database design.
16. Developed and drove the adoption of technical patterns that significantly improved engineering practices across the organization.