Contract Software Engineering Manager Jobs in Alberta

We are looking for a technically strong and people-oriented Software Development Manager to lead the Smart Roadside team. This is a hands-on leadership role - while coaching and growing a team of talented engineers. You will be the bridge between strategic product direction and engineering execution, moving with urgency and a ship-and-iterate mindset to ensure the team delivers robust, scalable, and secure solutions across the Fleetworthy ecosystems.

• Lead and mentor a team of software developers, supporting their career growth and performance.
• Manage team performance using engineering management metrics and software engineering best practices to drive continuous improvement and accountability.
• Manage a portfolio of internal business applications, ensuring ongoing stability, performance, and scalability.
• Oversee the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including design, planning, implementation, deployment, and support.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to gather requirements, define scope, and deliver practical, scalable software solutions.
• Coordinate priorities and development schedules across multiple initiatives and applications.
• Contribute to high-level system architecture and application design, ensuring alignment with business objectives and technical best practices.
• Be part of the team's troubleshooting and problem solving sessions including implementing, testing, and deploying proposed solutions.
• Ensure adherence to coding standards, version control, testing practices, and release procedures.
• Contribute to cross-team engineering culture and helping identify and resolve systemic issues across teams.

Required Skills & Experience

• Post-secondary education in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 9+ years of hands-on software development experience, including back-end services, APIs, and databases.
• Experience in a leadership role managing software teams or projects - including 1-2 years of direct people management.
• Strong Problem-Solving Skills: Architect mindset - thinks beyond the code to design systems that solve real problems creatively and scalably.
  • Strong technical knowledge of C# and ASP.NET with the ability to design, review, and contribute to production-quality code.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft SQL Server, including schema design, performance tuning, and complex query development.
• Self-Starter: Doesn't wait for direction; proactively identifies work, removes blockers, and pushes initiatives forward.
• Documentation & Organization: Communicates clearly, documents decisions and code thoroughly, and brings structure to ambiguous situations.
• Monitoring Mindset: Understands observability - logs, metrics, and alerting - and knows how to troubleshoot and resolve production issues confidently.
• Quality Assurance Mindset: Treats quality as a shared responsibility, not a handoff - champions testing at every stage of the SDLC, from unit and integration tests through to end-to-end validation. Understands the value of test coverage, code reviews, and regression safety nets in maintaining a healthy, production-ready codebase.
• Ambiguity navigation: Thrive in fast-paced, evolving environments - comfortable making decisions with incomplete information.
• Remote Experience: Comfortable working in distributed teams with async communication and a high degree of self-management.
• Hands-on balance: Maintain the right mix of direct technical contribution and team leadership depending on the needs of the team.
• AI Tools:
  • Comfortable leveraging AI coding tools to accelerate development understanding AI limitations and security implication.
  • Critically evaluating output for bias, errors, and correctness.
  • Open to learning and adopting new AI tools and workflows as the landscape evolves.

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with cloud-native architecture (microservices, containerization, cloud platforms).
• Experience modernizing legacy .NET Framework or WebForms applications.
• Exposure to Linux-based server environments, Elixir, or Erlang.
• Experience with electrical systems or embedded systems development.
• Experience in fleet management, transportation technology, or safety/compliance domains