About the Role
We're hiring an Engineering Manager who reports to the VP of Engineering. You'll own people leadership for a group of our engineers: their growth, performance, well-being, and talent bar. You’ll be implementing and shaping our engineering growth culture. This is a player-coach role where you are a strong engineer and can stay close to technical work.
Responsibilities
- Own growth, performance, 1:1s, and the talent bar for a team of engineers (software, ML, and infrastructure).
- Own outcomes end to end, collaborating with PM, design, CS, and sales.
- Unblock people day in and day out on product, technology, and individual growth.
- Coach individuals to foster self-improving paths.
- Set clarity and context for the team.
- Identify systemic causes of underperformance.
- Sustain urgency without burnout.
- Lead an AI-native team, decomposing ambiguous goals into AI-executable work.
- Innovate on the craft of management and build a repeatable way of managing.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in engineering, including 2+ as a manager and 5+ years as an IC engineer.
- Managed people who visibly grew, levelled up, got promoted, or went on to lead.
- Experience building or reshaping team rituals, tooling, culture, or process to solve business problems.
- Player-coach experience at a startup or scale-up, scaling a small, high-output team while staying close to the work.
- Technical depth across the stack.
- Ability to drop into technical work when necessary.
- Reason from first principles, judiciously using best practices, frameworks, or playbooks.
- Ability to take and deliver hard feedback with radical candor and care.
- Experience in a regulated industry (healthcare, finance, or similar) is an asset.
- Enjoy the art of delegation.
- Have a framework for coaching people.
- Think in sociotechnical systems.
- Prefer changing team culture over implementing more processes.
- Comfortable in a ~40-person company that ships daily.
Skills
- People leadership
- Engineering growth culture
- Delegation
- Coaching
- Problem diagnosis and solving
- Process improvement
- Tooling
- Technical depth
- First principles reasoning
- Radical Candor
- AI-native team leadership
- Sociotechnical systems thinking
Location
- Canada
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Manager
- Senior IC Engineer
Salary/Compensations
- $180,000 - $230,000 a year
Benefits
- Flexible work hours
- Comprehensive health and wellness coverage from day one
- Unmetered wellness days
- Competitive PTO
- Winter shutdown Dec 25 - Jan 1
- Paid Taliversaries
- Paid birthdays
- 'Extra long' long weekends
- $2000 annually in "Knowledge Dollars"
- Quarterly socials & company outings
About the Company
- Tali AI is one of the fastest-growing startups in Canada, on a mission to make healthcare more accessible with AI.
- Building the clinical operating system: an ambient AI scribe, a billing agent, scheduling, clinical decision support, and more on one platform.
- Thousands of clinicians across Canada and the US already use Tali, integrated deeply with North American health-record systems.
- Traction includes multiple commercial product lines, 15M+ patient visits documented, and 70+ years worth of time saved for clinicians in under three years.
- Tali is one of Linkedin's Top Startups of 2025.
- Tali is part of the renowned Digital Supercluster Project.
