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Engineering Manager, Developer Infrastructure

Ottawa, ONRemoteFull-time2026-11-03 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Lead the backend infrastructure team to define and uphold engineering standards for quality, scalability, and maintainability of the core Ruby on Rails application.

Role type

Engineering Manager, Developer Infrastructure

Builds

The long-term technical health of Fullscript's core Ruby on Rails application and the developer experience within it

Domain

Health technology / Backend Infrastructure

Required skills

People leadership, Ruby on Rails, Application architecture, Testing, Performance optimization, Reliability engineering, Security, Project management, Roadmap planning, Cross-team coordination

Preferred skills

Large Rails monolith evolution, Major framework upgrades, CI pipeline improvement, Infrastructure-as-code, React, GraphQL, E-commerce or health tech experience

Technologies

Ruby, Rails, React, GraphQL, Infrastructure-as-code

Responsibilities

Lead, coach, and develop engineers through clear expectations, regular feedback, career development, and performance management. Build a team culture grounded in ownership, collaboration, learning, and technical excellence. Own the team's roadmap, balancing immediate developer needs, foundational improvements, and long-term application health. Guide technical direction for the Rails monolith, improving code structure, maintainability, scalability, reliability, and security. Lead foundational upgrades across Ruby, Rails, and related frameworks and dependencies. Improve developer productivity through shared tooling, CI checks, testing infrastructure, documentation, and simpler development workflows. Oversee shared application infrastructure, including feature flags, end-to-end tests, and infrastructure-as-code within the monolith. Coordinate cross-team projects, making scope, ownership, dependencies, risks, and progress clear. Partner with product engineering teams to resolve recurring technical problems and support adoption of shared tools and standards. Define and track meaningful outcomes, such as faster feedback cycles, fewer recurring failures, and less time spent working around platform limitations.

Seniority

Manager, hands-on technical leadership