Engineering Manager, CoLab Software
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Collaboration tech for mechanical design
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Collaboration tech for mechanical design
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Stock options package
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower engineering teams to build the future faster.
Role
Who you are
- Strong engineering background. 5–8+ years of hands-on engineering experience, with at least 2–3 years in a leadership or management role
- Experience building scalable web-based products and cloud solution, particularly in high-growth environments
- Ability to balance customer needs with technical feasibility, ensuring the team delivers value to end users while meeting business goals
- Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues, make trade-offs, and implement robust solutions under tight timelines
- Proven success in hiring, onboarding, and mentoring engineers, with an eye for identifying talent that aligns with both technical needs and company culture
- Ability to set clear expectations, provide feedback, and guide team members toward achieving personal and team goals
- Desire to work in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment with shifting priorities. Experience working in startups or high-growth companies is highly valued
What the job involves
- As an Engineering Manager within the Core Product team at CoLab, you will lead a team of software developers to execute on a variety of Product Development projects
- You will work closely with other Engineering Managers, Product Managers, Designers, Application Security Specialists, Technical Customer Support and Leadership to ship new features & capabilities, extend existing functionality, and address application issues for our valued customers
- Engineering Managers operate at the intersection of technical execution, team leadership, and business alignment
- They are pivotal in scaling the team (hiring & career development), delivering quality software, and maintaining a balance between short-term goals and long-term technical sustainability
- Team Building: Recruit, onboard, and retain top engineering talent to build high-performing teams. Collaborate with HR and leadership to scale the team as needed
- Performance Management: Conduct regular 1:1s, provide constructive feedback, and facilitate career development plans for team members
- Culture Building: Foster a positive team culture aligned with the company’s values. Champion collaboration, trust, and accountability within the team
- Roadmap Alignment: Work with senior leadership to align engineering efforts with the company’s strategic objectives. Provide input on the feasibility and timelines of key initiatives
- Project Management: Own the delivery of high-quality software on schedule. Work with your team to break down projects into manageable tasks, set clear priorities, and ensure effective resource allocation
- Quality Assurance: Ensure that code quality, testing practices, and deployment pipelines meet the company’s standards. Advocate for automated testing, CI/CD, and minimizing technical debt
- Customer-centric Engineering: Work closely with customer success or support teams to understand user feedback and prioritize fixes or enhancements that align with business goals
- Team Processes: Establish and refine engineering processes, such as development cycle planning, retrospectives, and code reviews, to ensure efficiency and consistency
- Metrics & Reporting: Track key engineering metrics (e.g., velocity, cycle time, quality) to identify bottlenecks, optimize workflows, and report progress to senior leadership
- Documentation: Ensure adequate technical and process documentation is maintained, making knowledge accessible across the team
- Success will be measured by:
- Product Development project execution
- Promoting clean and maintainable code
- Maintaining high morale within the team
- Advancing the career growth for members of your team
- Clear communication and effective decision making
Our take
The mechanical design process requires lots of back-and-forth between engineers, designers and business stakeholders who are giving and acting on feedback. Getting everybody on the same page is time-consuming, and comes with lots of admin and flitting between different platforms, whilst important information slips between the cracks.
This is why CoLab has built a cloud-based platform for collaborative mechanical design and reviewing. It integrates into the existing stack of design and engineering teams to bring together all the teams involved in early-stage design. Basically, the platform pools data, feedback, tracking issues, emails, spreadsheets and notebooks into one collaborative space.
Ultimately, CoLab is a simple way to collaborate on concepts and projects at the planning stage, thus nipping in the bud any problems that could arise down the line. With an impressive Series B fundraise, the company plans to scale up its market push, explore the possibilities of AI and expand its team.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
May 2024
$21m
SERIES B
Apr 2023
$3m
GRANT
Total funding: $41.7m
Company benefits
- Health and dental insurance (covered at 100% for the employee)
- Unlimited PTO
- Remote/Hybrid Work: Our main office location is in St. John's, NL where we offer hybrid and remote opportunities
Company values
- We treat one another with respect
- We are kind to ourselves and others even when times are tough
- We seek to understand, and are transparent when we need help
- We have hard conversations and openly provide constructive feedback
Company HQ
East End, St. John's, NL
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Leadership
Jeremy Andrews
(CTO)Previosuly Mechanical Engineering Advisor at Paradigm Hyperloop, Team Lead at Memorial Baja, Battery Enclosure Engineering at Tesla, and Systems Test Engineer at General Dynamics Mission Systems.
Adam Keating
(CEO)Currently Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor at DuXion. Previously Project Lead at Paradigm Hyperloop, Mechanical Engineer at RefleXion Medical and Production Engineer at Statoil.
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