Engineering Team Lead

Leadership Experience: 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. Demonstrated success coaching and mentoring engineers, providing feedback, and supporting performance conversations. Experience working in an Agile software development environment. Experience helping a software team grow and introducing the processes needed to support that growth.

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.

Demonstrated success coaching and mentoring engineers, providing feedback, and supporting performance conversations.

Experience working in an Agile software development environment.

Experience helping a software team grow and introducing the processes needed to support that growth.

AI Product and Development Experience: Experience developing customer-facing products with integrated AI capabilities, including hands-on involvement in the software development lifecycle. Strong understanding of the product lifecycle for AI-enabled features, including development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement. Ability to assess and clearly communicate the risks, limitations, and tradeoffs associated with AI-powered solutions.

Experience developing customer-facing products with integrated AI capabilities, including hands-on involvement in the software development lifecycle.

Strong understanding of the product lifecycle for AI-enabled features, including development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.

Ability to assess and clearly communicate the risks, limitations, and tradeoffs associated with AI-powered solutions.

Software Engineering Skills: Strong full-stack software engineering experience. Solid foundation in C#, .NET 10, TypeScript, and REST API design. Experience working with Microsoft Graph API. Strong architecture and system design capabilities. Experience owning CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows. Cloud deployment experience; AWS experience is preferred but not required. Strong understanding of unit, integration, and end-to-end testing. Experience working with relational or NoSQL databases. Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.

Strong full-stack software engineering experience.

Solid foundation in C#, .NET 10, TypeScript, and REST API design.

Experience working with Microsoft Graph API.

Strong architecture and system design capabilities.

Experience owning CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows.

Cloud deployment experience; AWS experience is preferred but not required.

Strong understanding of unit, integration, and end-to-end testing.

Experience working with relational or NoSQL databases.

Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.

Bonus Points For: 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.

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.

Our current technology stack includes:

Frontend: Vue 3, TypeScript, Vite, Tailwind, Reka UI, Vitest, and Playwright.

AI Agent Layer: TypeScript, Bun, LangGraph, Claude, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and Vitest.

Backend: .NET 10, C#, TypeScript, REST APIs, xUnit, and MongoDB.

Serverless: Node.js, TypeScript, MongoDB, AWS CloudFormation, and Amazon Bedrock.

Infrastructure: Microsoft Graph API, Terraform, and AWS services including ECS, Fargate, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, DocumentDB, SQS, EventBridge, SNS, Bedrock, Comprehend, API Gateway, and Route 53.

CI/CD: GitHub Actions.

Containerization: Docker.

Integrity & Accountability: Acts with honesty and responsibility, takes ownership of actions and decisions, and raises risks or concerns early.

Collaboration: Embraces diverse perspectives and works effectively with Engineering, Product, Quality Assurance, and leadership to achieve shared goals.

Continuous Learning: Consistently seeks opportunities to expand technical, leadership, and AI capabilities.

Design Thinking: Uses creativity, emerging technologies, and customer-centered approaches to solve complex problems.

Analytical Thinking & Decision Making: Evaluates information, risks, and tradeoffs to make clear and well-reasoned decisions.

Managing Resources & Digital Dexterity: Adapts to new technologies while effectively managing time, priorities, and team capacity.

Operational Alignment & Coordination: Ensures engineering activities are coordinated, efficient, and aligned with product and organizational objectives.

Talent Management & Development: Develops team members through coaching, feedback, mentorship, and meaningful growth opportunities.

Innovation: Encourages experimentation and creates an environment where new ideas and approaches can be explored responsibly.

We are an Edmonton-based software development company with a global footprint. Our Relationship Engine creates seamless data flow between applications such as email, calendar, contacts, tasks, and CRM platforms, synchronizing data and reducing task switching, application toggling, and duplicate data entry.

This role offers the pace, ownership, and autonomy of a startup environment within a stable, profitable, and growing company with established customers. You will join a small, collaborative team that supports one another and is actively shaping how AI is used both within our products and throughout the development process.

Riva provides a clear technical career path, with opportunities to progress toward a Staff-level engineering role and ultimately pursue either an architecture or people-management path.

We offer a work culture that fosters diversity, equity, inclusion, and fun, where curiosity is rewarded and each day offers the opportunity to learn, grow, and contribute alongside people you like, respect, and value.

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, and life insurance.

Professional development and training allowance for career advancement.

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

Riva is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.

We appreciate all applicants for their interest in joining Riva. Please note that only candidates selected to move forward in the process will be contacted.