Software Manager - Fleet Telematics SaaS

Fully remote · Eligible to work in Canada

• Coaching the team: regular 1:1s, feedback, performance reviews and growth plans for 7–10 developers.
• Prioritization with Product: turn the roadmap into realistic sprint plans, and flag trade-offs and risks early.
• Delivery: sprint execution and release management, so the team ships predictably and with quality.
• Production reliability: lead incident response, run post-mortems and make sure the same problem doesn’t happen twice.
• Technical recommendations: evaluate options and recommend architecture and technology decisions to the VP, with clear pros, cons and costs.
• Hands-on code: regular backend and frontend contributions, code reviews, quality standards and CI/CD discipline.
• AI-first development: drive the team’s use of AI coding tools and agents to ship faster, with clear quality standards.

• The team ships on a predictable release schedule.
• Every developer has regular 1:1s and a clear growth plan.
• Incidents have clear ownership, and repeat issues are rare.
• The VP and Product lead trust your estimates and your recommendations.

• Your leadership experience is only in a company you founded or owned.
• You haven’t shipped production code in the last year.
• You want the final say on the roadmap or architecture. Here, Product owns the roadmap and you recommend technical direction to the VP.
• You want pure management or pure coding. This role is both.

• Experience building or managing software that works with telematics data, such as GPS tracking, OBD-II/CAN bus, device data ingestion or ELD.
• 3+ years managing software developers as an employee of an established company, including 1:1s, performance reviews and hiring. Founder or self-employed leadership experience alone doesn’t meet this requirement.
• Experience managing a team of at least 5 developers at the same time.
• 5+ years writing production code, and you’ve shipped production code in the last 12 months.
• Hands-on AWS in production (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch).
• Docker and Kubernetes in production.
• Backend experience with .NET or Node.js, and frontend experience with React and TypeScript.
• Owned Agile/Scrum delivery: sprint execution and release management.
• Led production incident response.
• Worked with a Product lead on priorities and requirements.
• Experience in a B2B SaaS product company.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Eligible to work in Canada.

• Government of Canada security clearance
• Bilingual in English and French
• Experience in fleet management software