We are committed to building great software and great engineering teams, and we're looking for a Senior Development Manager to lead multiple squads building our Parks & Recreation platform.
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This is a player/coach role at senior scale. You will lead 10+ engineers across two or more squads, develop other managers and technical leads, own delivery and quality outcomes, and stay close enough to the code to make credible architectural calls, unblock hard problems, and mentor through pull requests.
You will hold the organization to a high engineering bar rooted in Clean Architecture, SOLID, and DRY — and you'll set the standard for how we adopt AI-assisted development across the department. The mandate is to make the whole organization faster, better, and more accountable.
Our platform processes millions of reservations a year for agencies including Parks Canada, Ontario Parks, BC Parks, and Mississippi State Parks. The work is tangible: real people, real campsites, real trips.
Advantages
What you'll bring
Proven experience leading 10+ engineers across two or more teams, including hiring, difficult conversations, performance management, and developing other managers or leads.
10+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including 4+ years managing people.
A recent, demonstrable history of shipping code — pull requests, design docs, architecture reviews. You're comfortable diving into unfamiliar code and unblocking hard problems without taking the work over.
Strong delivery and operational ownership: Agile foundations (Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid), a track record of predictable delivery and honest early escalation, and hands-on experience with CI/CD, automated testing, and running production services including on-call and postmortems.
Working command of Clean Architecture, SOLID, DRY, and Domain-Driven Design, and a track record of holding a high engineering bar without slowing delivery to a crawl.
Exceptional written and verbal communication — able to speak credibly with engineers, product managers, executives, and customers, and translate between them under pressure.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experienced
Responsibilities
What you'll be doing
Lead 10+ engineers across two or more squads through structured 1:1s, coaching, goal-setting, performance feedback, and career development plans.
Hire, onboard, and integrate new team members with deliberate attention to team culture and capability.
Develop other managers and technical leads, growing the leadership bench so the organization isn't dependent on any single individual.
Measure and improve team effectiveness — delivery predictability, quality, engagement — and spot systemic patterns across squads.
Own the health, engagement, and performance of the teams. Hold hard conversations early, humanely, and consistently.
Contribute to code reviews, spikes, prototypes, and critical-path problems. Not the lead developer on every feature, but the engineer the team turns to when something is on fire.
Pair with engineers on hard problems, unblock design decisions, and make credible architectural calls.
Champion AI-assisted development — introduce, operate, and measure AI coding tools and agent workflows in real delivery.
Steer planning cadence, Agile practice, definition of done, code review standards, and continuous improvement.
Own predictable delivery. Manage capacity, dependencies, and risk across squads, and communicate honestly and early when scope, timeline, or quality is at risk.
Align squads with delivery interdependencies before conflicts escalate.
Create and maintain engineering process documentation and team standards clear enough that teams can operate without verbal interpretation.
Coordinate cross-team production incident response at the management level, with clear status communication to leadership and stakeholders.
Provide management-level escalation support so resolution is never stalled by unclear ownership.
Own on-call culture, postmortem quality, and reliability follow-through
Qualifications
What you'll bring
Proven experience leading 10+ engineers across two or more teams, including hiring, difficult conversations, performance management, and developing other managers or leads.
10+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including 4+ years managing people.
A recent, demonstrable history of shipping code — pull requests, design docs, architecture reviews. You're comfortable diving into unfamiliar code and unblocking hard problems without taking the work over.
Strong delivery and operational ownership: Agile foundations (Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid), a track record of predictable delivery and honest early escalation, and hands-on experience with CI/CD, automated testing, and running production services including on-call and postmortems.
Working command of Clean Architecture, SOLID, DRY, and Domain-Driven Design, and a track record of holding a high engineering bar without slowing delivery to a crawl.
Exceptional written and verbal communication — able to speak credibly with engineers, product managers, executives, and customers, and translate between them under pressure.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience
Summary
What you'll bring
Proven experience leading 10+ engineers across two or more teams, including hiring, difficult conversations, performance management, and developing other managers or leads.
10+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including 4+ years managing people.
A recent, demonstrable history of shipping code — pull requests, design docs, architecture reviews. You're comfortable diving into unfamiliar code and unblocking hard problems without taking the work over.
Strong delivery and operational ownership: Agile foundations (Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid), a track record of predictable delivery and honest early escalation, and hands-on experience with CI/CD, automated testing, and running production services including on-call and postmortems.
Working command of Clean Architecture, SOLID, DRY, and Domain-Driven Design, and a track record of holding a high engineering bar without slowing delivery to a crawl.
Exceptional written and verbal communication — able to speak credibly with engineers, product managers, executives, and customers, and translate between them under pressure.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experienced
Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
This posting is for existing and upcoming vacancies.
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We are committed to building great software and great engineering teams, and we're looking for a Senior Development Manager to lead multiple squads building our Parks & Recreation platform.
This is a player/coach role at senior scale. You will lead 10+ engineers across two or more squads, develop other managers and technical leads, own delivery and quality outcomes, and stay close enough to the code to make credible architectural calls, unblock hard problems, and mentor through pull requests.
You will hold the organization to a high engineering bar rooted in Clean Architecture, SOLID, and DRY — and you'll set the standard for how we adopt AI-assisted development across the department. The mandate is to make the whole organization faster, better, and more accountable.
Our platform processes millions of reservations a year for agencies including Parks Canada, Ontario Parks, BC Parks, and Mississippi State Parks. The work is tangible: real people, real campsites, real trips.
Advantages
What you'll bring
Proven experience leading 10+ engineers across two or more teams, including hiring, difficult conversations, performance management, and developing other managers or leads.
...
10+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including 4+ years managing people.
A recent, demonstrable history of shipping code — pull requests, design docs, architecture reviews. You're comfortable diving into unfamiliar code and unblocking hard problems without taking the work over.
Strong delivery and operational ownership: Agile foundations (Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid), a track record of predictable delivery and honest early escalation, and hands-on experience with CI/CD, automated testing, and running production services including on-call and postmortems.
Working command of Clean Architecture, SOLID, DRY, and Domain-Driven Design, and a track record of holding a high engineering bar without slowing delivery to a crawl.
Exceptional written and verbal communication — able to speak credibly with engineers, product managers, executives, and customers, and translate between them under pressure.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experienced
Responsibilities
What you'll be doing
Lead 10+ engineers across two or more squads through structured 1:1s, coaching, goal-setting, performance feedback, and career development plans.
Hire, onboard, and integrate new team members with deliberate attention to team culture and capability.
Develop other managers and technical leads, growing the leadership bench so the organization isn't dependent on any single individual.
Measure and improve team effectiveness — delivery predictability, quality, engagement — and spot systemic patterns across squads.
Own the health, engagement, and performance of the teams. Hold hard conversations early, humanely, and consistently.
Contribute to code reviews, spikes, prototypes, and critical-path problems. Not the lead developer on every feature, but the engineer the team turns to when something is on fire.
Pair with engineers on hard problems, unblock design decisions, and make credible architectural calls.
Champion AI-assisted development — introduce, operate, and measure AI coding tools and agent workflows in real delivery.
Steer planning cadence, Agile practice, definition of done, code review standards, and continuous improvement.
Own predictable delivery. Manage capacity, dependencies, and risk across squads, and communicate honestly and early when scope, timeline, or quality is at risk.
Align squads with delivery interdependencies before conflicts escalate.
Create and maintain engineering process documentation and team standards clear enough that teams can operate without verbal interpretation.
Coordinate cross-team production incident response at the management level, with clear status communication to leadership and stakeholders.
Provide management-level escalation support so resolution is never stalled by unclear ownership.
Own on-call culture, postmortem quality, and reliability follow-through
Qualifications
What you'll bring
Proven experience leading 10+ engineers across two or more teams, including hiring, difficult conversations, performance management, and developing other managers or leads.
10+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including 4+ years managing people.
A recent, demonstrable history of shipping code — pull requests, design docs, architecture reviews. You're comfortable diving into unfamiliar code and unblocking hard problems without taking the work over.
Strong delivery and operational ownership: Agile foundations (Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid), a track record of predictable delivery and honest early escalation, and hands-on experience with CI/CD, automated testing, and running production services including on-call and postmortems.
Working command of Clean Architecture, SOLID, DRY, and Domain-Driven Design, and a track record of holding a high engineering bar without slowing delivery to a crawl.
Exceptional written and verbal communication — able to speak credibly with engineers, product managers, executives, and customers, and translate between them under pressure.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience
Summary
What you'll bring
Proven experience leading 10+ engineers across two or more teams, including hiring, difficult conversations, performance management, and developing other managers or leads.
10+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including 4+ years managing people.
A recent, demonstrable history of shipping code — pull requests, design docs, architecture reviews. You're comfortable diving into unfamiliar code and unblocking hard problems without taking the work over.
Strong delivery and operational ownership: Agile foundations (Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid), a track record of predictable delivery and honest early escalation, and hands-on experience with CI/CD, automated testing, and running production services including on-call and postmortems.
Working command of Clean Architecture, SOLID, DRY, and Domain-Driven Design, and a track record of holding a high engineering bar without slowing delivery to a crawl.
Exceptional written and verbal communication — able to speak credibly with engineers, product managers, executives, and customers, and translate between them under pressure.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experienced
Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
This posting is for existing and upcoming vacancies.
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