Tech Lead Manager, Integrations in Vancouver

What you will be doing:

• Technical Leadership & Execution
• Design, architect, and implement scalable integration infrastructure that achieves five-nines accuracy and near real-time synchronization.
• Engage in hands-on coding, code reviews, and performance optimizations, setting the standard for technical excellence across the team.
• Drive the technical vision for data pipelines, distributed systems, and real-time processing frameworks, ensuring maintainability and long-term viability.
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Implement best practices in code quality, testing, observability, and performance monitoring to ensure reliability and uptime.
• Champion a culture of automation, streamlined operations, and continuous improvement across the engineering organization.
• Act as a thought leader, evaluating and introducing new technologies, tools, and patterns that enhance integration capabilities.
• People Management & Team Leadership
• Manage, coach, and develop a team of engineers, owning their career growth, performance reviews, and professional development.
• Conduct regular 1:1s, provide timely and constructive feedback, and create individual development plans for each report.
• Drive hiring for the team - defining roles, conducting interviews, and making hiring decisions to build a world-class integration engineering team.
• Foster a healthy, inclusive team culture rooted in psychological safety, trust, and accountability.
• Participate in sprint planning, backlog grooming, and Agile ceremonies to ensure alignment with product and organizational goals.
• Partner with the Engineering leadership, product management, and cross-functional leaders to influence the team’s roadmap and priorities.
• Advocate for reliability engineering, helping the team continuously improve systems for high availability and fault tolerance.

What you must have:

• Education & Experience
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (required).
• 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with a strong focus on building scalable, reliable, and secure distributed systems.
• 2+ years of experience in a people management or tech lead role with direct reports.
• Proven experience building and scaling integration systems - including API connectors, webhook infrastructure, data synchronization pipelines, or iPaaS-style platforms.
• Deep expertise in working with large-scale data pipelines, streaming architectures, or ETL frameworks across multiple external systems.
• Proven track record of driving technical initiatives, mentoring engineers, and influencing architectural decisions.
• Technical Skills
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript and NestJS (required); experience with Ruby or Python is a plus.
• Hands-on experience integrating with external databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Snowflake) and designing resilient data access layers across third-party systems.
• Strong understanding of cloud architectures, containerization, and orchestration technologies.
• Extensive experience with observability tools, CI/CD pipelines, and automation frameworks.
• Familiarity with testing methodologies, performance tuning, and high-availability strategies.