Software Engineering Manager - Fintech

<div> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">We are TRADER, a Canadian leader in digital automotive solutions. Our flagship brands —&nbsp;<strong>AutoTrader.ca</strong>,&nbsp;<strong>AutoSync</strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Dealertrack Canada and CMS</strong>&nbsp;— help Canadians buy, sell, and finance vehicles with confidence.</span></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">As part of&nbsp;<strong>AutoScout24 group</strong>, Europe’s largest online car marketplace, we’re shaping the future of automotive retail in Canada and beyond.</span></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Learn more at&nbsp;<a href="http://tradercorporation.com/">tradercorporation.com</a>.</span></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This role will be within our&nbsp;<strong>Collateral Management (CMS)</strong>&nbsp;team, a national tech solution that boosts lien and registration services, recovery services, and insolvency management solutions for Canadian Lenders.</span></div> </div> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">---</span></p> <div> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">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 <strong>build and lead a full-stack team</strong> reimagining auto repossession systems—making them smarter, more automated, and increasingly AI-assisted.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This role is for someone who thrives in <strong>fast-moving environments with ambiguity</strong>, asks sharp questions early, and leads through clarity, trust, and technical judgment. You won’t just run a team—you’ll <strong>multiply its impact</strong>.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">What You'll Own:</span></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>A High-Ownership Engineering Team</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Build, hire, and grow a team of full-stack engineers working with modern .NET on AWS</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Create an environment of trust, psychological safety, and high standards</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Coach engineers to take ownership—not just complete tickets</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Transform engineering teams to be curious about the problems they solve and the outcomes to reach</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Meaningful Business Outcomes</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Own delivery end to end: velocity, quality, reliability, and long-term maintainability</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Partner tightly with Product, Design, and Data to ship incremental value fast</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Reduce manual operational effort and unlock new automation and AI-enabled capabilities</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Technical Direction Without Becoming the Bottleneck</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Guide architecture and technical decisions across services and systems</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Review PRs, challenge assumptions, and raise the quality bar</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Balance short-term delivery with long-term system health</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Execution in Ambiguity</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Navigate legacy systems alongside greenfield development</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Make progress with imperfect information—and help your team do the same</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Ask the right questions to turn uncertainty into clarity</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>AI-Driven Leverage (Practical, Not Theoretical)</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Encourage and model the use of AI and Generative AI to improve engineering productivity</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Integrate AI-driven tools into daily workflows—code generation, debugging, reviews, documentation, and decision support</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Identify opportunities to automate repetitive work and streamline development processes</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Take a proactive, hands-on approach to exploring and adopting AI tools that meaningfully improve efficiency and quality for yourself and your team</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>What We're Looking For:</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>You’re a Multiplier</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">2+ years leading engineers as an Engineering Manager or Tech Lead</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">You measure success by how effective your team becomes</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">You take responsibility for outcomes, not just execution</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Strong Engineering Fundament</strong><strong>als</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Hands-on experience with full-stack development</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Production experience with modern .NET and cloud platforms (AWS preferred)</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Solid understanding of microservices, distributed systems, and SRE practices</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Builder’s Mindset</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Comfortable getting hands-on when needed—without defaulting to it</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Not afraid of legacy systems, and motivated to improve or replace them</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">High bar for code quality, testing, and system design</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Leadership Style</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Clear, direct communicator with empathy and conviction</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Comfortable giving and receiving feedback</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Curious, pragmatic, and biased toward action</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Why Strong Candidates Choose This Role:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">You’ll <strong>own a meaningful problem space</strong>, not just a team</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">You’ll have room to shape systems, culture, and technical direction</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">You’ll work with peers who value judgment, curiosity, and impact</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">You’ll apply AI where it actually matters—<strong>to reduce toil and increase leverage</strong>, not for demos</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">If you’re an Engineering Manager who wants to <strong>build leverage through people, systems, and smart use of AI</strong>, operate comfortably in ambiguity, and stay close enough to the work to influence quality—this role is built for you.</span></li> </ul> </div> <div> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong><span data-contrast="auto">What’s in it for you…</span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;335559739&quot;:0}">&nbsp;</span></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span data-contrast="auto">We understand that there is life at work and life outside of work. Here are a few benefits we all benefit from that support us to be our creative best.</span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;335559739&quot;:0}">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Benefits from Day 1</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;335559739&quot;:0}">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span data-contrast="auto">Gym discounts</span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;335559739&quot;:0}">&nbsp;</span></span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span data-contrast="auto">Employee and Family Assistance program</span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;335559739&quot;:0}">&nbsp;</span></span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span data-contrast="auto">Weekly virtual wellness events</span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;335559739&quot;:0}">&nbsp;</span></span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span data-contrast="auto">Conferences &amp; training budget</span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;335559739&quot;:0}">&nbsp;</span></span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span data-contrast="auto">Regular internal training programs</span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;335559739&quot;:0}">&nbsp;</span></span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Competitive salary</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;335559739&quot;:0}">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span data-contrast="auto">Annual bonus structure</span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;335559739&quot;:0}">&nbsp;</span></span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span data-contrast="auto">3% CPP matching</span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;335559739&quot;:0}">&nbsp;</span></span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span data-contrast="auto">For a career where you can drive our business and shape your future, apply now.</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">---</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The&nbsp;<strong>base salary range</strong> for this position is CAD $140,000 – CAD 190,000.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This range reflects the expected compensation at the time of posting. The final offer may vary and can be higher based on relevant skills, experience, location, and market conditions. Based on the role the total rewards package may also include benefits, bonus, and other employee offerings.</span></p> </div> <p>&nbsp;</p><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p><strong>Compensation </strong></p> <p>Our ranges reflect the expected compensation at the time of posting. The final offer may vary and can be higher based on relevant skills, experience, location, and market conditions. Based on the role, the total rewards package may also include benefits, bonus, and other employee offerings.</p></div><div class="title">The base salary range for this position is</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$140,000</span><span class="divider">&mdash;</span><span>$190,000 CAD</span></div></div></div>