Engineering Lead - Platform Team

SaaS Growth Co is a fast-growing B2B software company serving 2,000+ customers worldwide. Our platform helps companies manage their operations more efficiently. We’re scaling rapidly and need strong technical leadership to build our platform team.

The Role We’re hiring an Engineering Lead to build and lead our Platform Team. You’ll manage a team of 5-7 engineers while remaining hands‑on with architecture and code. This role balances people management (60%) with technical leadership (40%).

What You’ll Do

Build and lead a high-performing platform engineering team

Hire, mentor, and develop engineers (junior through senior levels)

Define team roadmap and prioritize platform initiatives

Architect scalable infrastructure and platform services

Drive engineering best practices and technical standardsCollaborate with product teams to understand platform needs

Participate in hands‑on coding and architecture reviews

Conduct 1‑on‑1s, performance reviews, and career development

Foster team culture of quality, ownership, and collaboration

Report to VP of Engineering on team progress and challenges

Requirements

8+ years of software engineering experience

2+ years of people management experience

Strong technical background in backend/platform engineering

Experience with Python, Go, or similar languages

Deep knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)

Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration

Track record of building and scaling engineering teams

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Ability to balance technical and people leadership

Passion for mentoring and developing engineers

Nice to Have

Experience at high‑growth SaaS companies

Background in DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering

Understanding of observability and monitoring platforms

Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi)

Prior startup or scale‑up experience

What We Offer

Competitive salary ($140K-$170K CAD)

Stock options with early‑stage startup equity

100% remote within Canada (PT or MT timezone preferred)

Flexible work hours with core collaboration hours

Professional development and conference budget

Annual team offsites

Opportunity to shape engineering culture and practices

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