Engineering Team Lead

The role

You will lead a small engineering team and spend 60–70% of your time on coding, architecture, and system design. You will guide the development of an AI-powered meeting intelligence product.

What you will do

• Provide hands-on technical leadership through coding, architecture, and system design.
• Own system architecture and design reliable end-to-end workflows for an AI-powered SaaS product.
• Lead an AI-native development environment using agentic AI workflows.
• Partner with the Product Owner to manage the backlog, refine requirements, and plan sprints.
• Improve development workflows, CI/CD practices, and technical standards.
• Track technical debt and communicate risks, tradeoffs, and timelines.
• Partner with the team's tester to strengthen test coverage.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, demos, and retrospectives.
• Represent the team in bi-weekly leadership meetings.
• Coach and develop the team through one-on-one meetings and mentorship.

Required qualifications

• Proven experience leading a software engineering team.
• Experience owning system design, architecture, backlog management, delivery reporting, and engineering workflow improvements.
• Experience presenting technical decisions, risks, tradeoffs, and timelines to leadership.
• Experience coaching and mentoring engineers and supporting performance conversations.
• Experience working in an Agile software development environment.
• Experience helping a software team grow and introducing processes for growth.
• Experience developing customer-facing products with integrated AI capabilities.
• Understanding of the product lifecycle for AI-enabled features.
• Ability to assess and communicate risks and tradeoffs of AI-powered solutions.
• Strong full-stack software engineering experience.
• Solid foundation in C#, .NET 10, TypeScript, and REST API design.
• Experience working with Microsoft Graph API.

Nice to have

• AWS experience
• Experience with Vue 3
• Experience with MongoDB
• Familiarity with additional technologies in Riva's engineering stack
• Experience leading a team through active growth
• Formal performance review experience
• Experience working in a startup or similarly fast-paced environment
• Experience owning the full software development lifecycle
• A self-directed approach to learning and professional development

Benefits

• RRSP/TFSA matching
• Paid vacation starting with three weeks
• Paid wellness time for mental health, personal appointments, and personal needs
• Paid time off to volunteer with charities of your choice
• Extended health care benefits
• Dental coverage
• Life insurance
• Professional development and training allowance

Before you apply

• Applicants must hold a valid Canadian work permit or be a permanent resident or citizen of Canada.

About the company

Riva is an Edmonton-based software development company. Their Relationship Engine creates seamless data flow between applications such as email, calendar, contacts, tasks, and CRM platforms.