Role: Software Engineering Expert
Location: Toronto, ON, Canada
The Opportunity
Are you passionate about growing people, scaling engineering teams, and delivering meaningful product impact? At AutoScout24, we're seeking an Engineering Expert who excels at building high-performing systems and creating solutions our customers genuinely value. You'll lead the engineering vision within multiple cross-functional teams of full-stack engineers, fostering an environment of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.
What You'll Do
Engineering Technical Leadership: Provide architectural direction and technical mentorship across our applications. Being both hands as an individual contributor and over-arching guiding multiple teams to ensure technical and architectural solutions appropriately address requirements. Challenging designs when necessary to ensure scalability, quality, and long-term maintainability.
Product Delivery: Ensure that project goals, scope, product requirements, and specifications are complete, coherent, and aligned with intended business outcomes. Ensure solution architecture is defined, highly optimized to achieve the goals of the projects and adhering to the architectural patterns we want to enforce.
AI Innovator: Bringing AI driven efficiency improvements to the team and helping pave the way to improve in how teams work. Being a leader in this new domain to help your team grow their skills and modernize the SDLC.
Operational Excellence: Ensure technical decisions enforce site reliability engineering bests practices. Establish and track meaningful SLOs, develop proactive monitoring systems, ensure incidents lead to learning opportunities, and maintain data quality across your domains.
Strategic Leadership: Connect team initiatives to company objectives. Participate in cross-functional planning, translate business strategy into actionable engineering work, and help the teams understand how their contributions advance AutoScout24's mission.
What We're Looking For
- 8+ years of engineering technical leadership experience.
- Demonstrated success delivering complex software products in collaborative environments.
- Proven experience integrating AI-driven solutions into daily work — such as code generation, debugging, reviews, documentation, and decision support—to improve efficiency for yourself and teams.
- Possess a proactive approach to exploring and implementing AI tools that drive innovation and streamline development processes.
- Strong experience building highly scalable public facing web based applications.
- Strong technical background with expertise in language agnostic full-stack development.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure management (AWS preferred) and modern software architecture patterns.
- Exceptional communication skills with ability to adapt your approach across technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience fostering inclusive team cultures that embrace diverse perspectives and working styles
- Data-driven decision-making abilities balanced with empathetic leadership
Why Join Us?
We're a technology-driven company reshaping the future of mobility across Canada and Europe. At AutoScout24, your leadership directly influences millions of users' experiences through our Website platform and helps define the future of our engineering organization. Join us to lead a team where professional growth, decision-making autonomy, and meaningful impact aren't just aspirational goals—they're embedded in our everyday work.
What's In It For You?
We understand that there is life at work and life outside of work. Here are a few benefits we all benefit from that support us to be our creative best.
Benefits from Day 1
- Gym discounts
- Employee and Family Assistance program
- Virtual wellness events
- Conferences & training budget
- Regular internal training programs
- Financial planning with 3% matching Pension
- Competitive salary
- Annual bonus structure
The base salary range for this position is CAD 125,000 – CAD 160,000.
This range reflects the expected compensation at the time of posting. The final offer may vary and can be higher based on relevant skills, experience, location, and market conditions. Based on the role the total rewards package may also include benefits, bonus, and other employee offerings.
For a career where you can drive our business and shape your future, apply now.
Use of Artificial Intelligence in Hiring: We use artificial intelligence (“AI”) in our hiring process, including to screen, assess, or select applicants for this position.
Vacancy Status: This job posting is for an existing vacancy.
Skills Required
- 8+ years of engineering technical leadership experience
- Proven experience integrating AI-driven solutions
- Strong experience building highly scalable web applications
- Experience with cloud infrastructure management (AWS preferred)
- Exceptional communication skills
What We Do
AutoTrader.ca is the leading advertising partner for Canadian automotive retailers and manufacturers. With over 25.7 million visits a month and more than 6 million total mobile app downloads, our largest automotive marketplaces – AutoTrader.ca and AutoHebdo.net – are the #1 source for all things automotive in Canada. The company offers retailers and manufacturers access to a robust audience of new and used car shoppers, best-in-class advertising services and rich data insights. AutoTrader.ca is proud to be the first to offer a completely integrated digital retail experience for consumers and dealers on a major Canadian automotive marketplace.
