About the Role
AutoScout24 is modernizing a critical, real-world domain where software decisions directly reduce operational friction and unlock new business opportunities. We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to build and lead a full-stack team reimagining auto repossession systems—making them smarter, more automated, and increasingly AI-assisted. This role is for someone who thrives in fast-moving environments with ambiguity, asks sharp questions early, and leads through clarity, trust, and technical judgment. You won’t just run a team—you’ll multiply its impact.
Responsibilities
- Build, hire, and grow a team of full-stack engineers working with modern .NET on AWS
- Create an environment of trust, psychological safety, and high standards
- Coach engineers to take ownership—not just complete tickets
- Transform engineering teams to be curious about the problems they solve and the outcomes to reach
- Own delivery end to end: velocity, quality, reliability, and long-term maintainability
- Partner tightly with Product, Design, and Data to ship incremental value fast
- Reduce manual operational effort and unlock new automation and AI-enabled capabilities
- Guide architecture and technical decisions across services and systems
- Review PRs, challenge assumptions, and raise the quality bar
- Balance short-term delivery with long-term system health
- Navigate legacy systems alongside greenfield development
- Make progress with imperfect information—and help your team do the same
- Ask the right questions to turn uncertainty into clarity
- Encourage and model the use of AI and Generative AI to improve engineering productivity
- Integrate AI-driven tools into daily workflows—code generation, debugging, reviews, documentation, and decision support
- Identify opportunities to automate repetitive work and streamline development processes
- Take a proactive, hands-on approach to exploring and adopting AI tools that meaningfully improve efficiency and quality for yourself and your team
Requirements
- 2+ years leading engineers as an Engineering Manager or Tech Lead
- Measure success by how effective your team becomes
- Take responsibility for outcomes, not just execution
- Hands-on experience with full-stack development
- Production experience with modern .NET and cloud platforms (AWS preferred)
- Solid understanding of microservices, distributed systems, and SRE practices
- Comfortable getting hands-on when needed—without defaulting to it
- Not afraid of legacy systems, and motivated to improve or replace them
- High bar for code quality, testing, and system design
- Clear, direct communicator with empathy and conviction
- Comfortable giving and receiving feedback
- Curious, pragmatic, and biased toward action
- Own a meaningful problem space, not just a team
- Have room to shape systems, culture, and technical direction
- Work with peers who value judgment, curiosity, and impact
- Apply AI where it actually matters—to reduce toil and increase leverage, not for demos
- Build leverage through people, systems, and smart use of AI
- Operate comfortably in ambiguity
- Stay close enough to the work to influence quality
Skills
- Full-stack development
- Modern .NET
- AWS
- Microservices
- Distributed systems
- SRE practices
- AI
- Generative AI
Location
- Canada
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Engineering Manager
- Tech Lead
Salary/Compensations
- CAD $140,000 – CAD 190,000
Benefits
- Gym discounts
- Employee and Family Assistance program
- Weekly virtual wellness events
- Conferences & training budget
- Regular internal training programs
- Competitive salary
- Annual bonus structure
- 3% CPP matching
About the Company
- TRADER is a Canadian leader in digital automotive solutions.
- Our flagship brands — AutoTrader.ca, AutoSync, Dealertrack Canada and CMS — help Canadians buy, sell, and finance vehicles with confidence.
- As part of AutoScout24 group, Europe’s largest online car marketplace, we’re shaping the future of automotive retail in Canada and beyond.
- Learn more at tradercorporation.com.
- This role will be within our Collateral Management (CMS) team, a national tech solution that boosts lien and registration services, recovery services, and insolvency management solutions for Canadian Lenders.
