Manager/Lead, Software Development

ENGINEERING MANAGER

Calgary, AB Full-time

THE ROLE

Financial software runs underneath the biggest decisions people make. When it's good, it saves real money over years. When it's not, those losses compound just as quietly. Most of it was built to capture value, not create it. Neo is building the alternative.

Neo has been Canada's fastest-growing company three years running. The engineering organization behind that growth runs 150 services in production, deploys hundreds of times a week, and serves over one million customers on a platform built entirely in-house.

Neo's engineering teams are small by design. A typical squad is about eight engineers, one engineering manager, and a product counterpart. Close enough to the work that the manager is never far from the code.

This is a player-coach role. You'll spend real time in the work alongside your team: reviewing code, sitting with engineers to improve and refactor it, making architectural calls, getting into the details when it matters. Your primary job is to make your team better. That means giving direct feedback, running a tight delivery process, and holding a performance bar that most teams never see.

We ship small, fast, and often. The manager role here is less about coordinating approvals and more about building a team that can execute at a pace most of them haven't experienced before.

 
 

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

- Lead a squad of engineers, owning both their delivery and their development

- Develop engineers at all levels, from coaching juniors to helping seniors grow into tech leads

- Stay hands-on with the technical work: code reviews, architectural decisions, release planning, and sitting with engineers to improve their code directly

- Own the delivery process: small tickets, fast cycles, clear priorities

- Give direct, regular feedback to every engineer. Make the performance bar visible and hold it

- Monitor performance. Act on issues when they come up, not after

- Own the...