Software Engineering Manager

Software Engineering Manager

Location: Greater Montreal, QC (Hybrid)

Salary: $180,000–$210,000 CAD (to be confirmed)

Type: Full-time

Auxo is hiring a Software Engineering Manager for an early-stage AI company building intelligent automation products for finance and back-office operations.

The company is moving from 0 to 1, developing AI-powered teammates that execute complex workflows across financial systems.

We're looking for a hands-on engineering leader who can build and develop a high-performing team, take ownership of technical direction, and turn ambitious product ideas into reliable production systems.

This is not a traditional people management role, nor is it purely a Tech Lead position. You'll combine strong technical judgment with genuine people leadership, accountability, and execution.

What You'll Do

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of approximately 10 engineers, creating a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Own engineering execution, ensuring clear priorities, realistic commitments, and consistent delivery.
• Drive technical direction and architecture across a Python, React, and TypeScript stack.
• Stay technically hands-on through code reviews, architecture decisions, targeted development, and solving complex engineering challenges.
• Lead the development of production AI agent systems, including orchestration, tool calling, workflow execution, evaluation, and enterprise integrations.
• Establish engineering standards for reliability, scalability, security, and maintainability.
• Partner closely with Product and leadership to translate business objectives into actionable engineering priorities.
• Own hiring, performance management, career development, and team structure as the organization grows.
• Identify bottlenecks, challenge assumptions, and proactively drive improvements across engineering.
• Balance speed and quality while building a scalable foundation for multiple AI-powered products.

Who You Are

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including meaningful experience formally managing engineering teams.
• Proven experience hiring, developing, and managing engineers, including performance reviews and difficult feedback.
• Strong hands-on experience with Python and React/TypeScript in production environments.
• Experience building or leading the delivery of production AI systems involving agents, orchestration, tool calling, or autonomous workflows.
• Experience taking products from early development to production, ideally in a startup or 0-to-1 environment.
• Strong technical judgment across software architecture, APIs, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure.
• Demonstrated ownership of engineering delivery, technical decisions, and measurable team outcomes.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity, setting direction, and making decisions without excessive oversight.
• Able to communicate effectively with engineers, Product, and business stakeholders.

Nice to Have

• Experience in fintech, accounting software, financial operations, or regulated environments.
• Experience integrating with ERPs, financial platforms, or enterprise systems.
• Familiarity with AI evaluation frameworks, guardrails, observability, and human-in-the-loop workflows.
• Experience with AWS or GCP.
• Experience building shared platforms, workflow engines, or multi-tenant SaaS products.
• Experience scaling engineering teams and processes in an early-stage company.