We’re looking for an attitude and a great sense of humor to join our growing team. This is a hands-on engineering management role leading development for ClearGov’s product suite—driving technical direction, mentoring engineers, and actively contributing to architecture and delivery.
The ideal candidate demonstrates strong ownership, technical depth, and creative problem-solving, consistently delivering high-quality results. Responsibilities span the full software development lifecycle, including architecture and design, implementation, testing, performance optimization, and ongoing support, while collaborating cross-functionally to deliver reliable and maintainable software.
Duties:
- Lead the delivery of the Platform Services group and oversee engineering execution of platform capabilities.
- Own the development and delivery of platform features supporting planning, budgeting, reporting, and financial data management.
- Drive architectural consistency for shared financial data models across the platform.
- Lead platform migration initiatives using safe deployment strategies, including parallel schemas, feature flags, and phased cutovers.
- Manage, mentor, coach, and develop software engineers to foster technical growth and high performance.
- Lead engineering planning, prioritization, and execution to ensure predictable and timely delivery.
- Support continuous improvement of team processes, incident response procedures, and release readiness.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, reliable, and maintainable platform solutions.
Requirements:
- A bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, business administration, commerce or engineering is usually required.
- Minimum 8 years of professional software engineering experience, including demonstrated success leading engineering teams in a SaaS environment.
- Strong experience with SQL and relational databases, particularly in financial, reporting, or ERP systems.
- Experience designing and developing APIs and integration solutions.
- Knowledge of data import/export processes and integration patterns.
- Experience with background processing and event-driven architectures.
- Strong understanding of observability, monitoring, and production support practices.
- Experience building and supporting multi-tenant SaaS platforms.
- Knowledge of configurable data models and metadata-driven architectures.
- Experience using AI-assisted software development tools.
- Experience working in Agile software development environments and delivery practices.
Terms of Employment: Full-Time (FTE)
Location: Calgary Office – 1550 5 Street SW, Suite 300, Calgary, AB T2R 1K3
Hours of Work: 40 hours per week
Salary: $160,000 CAD per year or $76.92/hour
Language: English
Benefits: Company-sponsored benefits effective from Day 1 of employment, including Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance, Life Insurance, RRSP Plan, Personal Time Off (PTO), Company-Paid Holidays, Annual Holiday "Dimming of the Lights" (reduced working hours), Parental Leave, and Employee Referral Bonus.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, business administration, commerce, or engineering
- Minimum 8 years professional software engineering experience, including leading engineering teams in a SaaS environment
- Experience managing, mentoring, coaching, and developing software engineers
- Strong experience with SQL and relational databases, particularly in financial, reporting, or ERP systems
- Experience designing and developing APIs and integration solutions
- Knowledge of data import/export processes and integration patterns
- Experience with background processing and event-driven architectures
- Strong understanding of observability, monitoring, and production support practices
- Experience building and supporting multi-tenant SaaS platforms
- Knowledge of configurable data models and metadata-driven architectures
- Experience leading platform migration initiatives using safe deployment strategies (parallel schemas, feature flags, phased cutovers)
- Experience using AI-assisted software development tools
- Experience working in Agile software development environments and delivery practices
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