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Founded in 2003, we help communications teams around the world drive awareness, make smarter decisions, and protect their reputation when it matters most. Our enterprise-grade platform unifies media relations, media monitoring, social listening, AI visibility, and media intelligence into a single seamless system-turning overwhelming streams of coverage and conversation into decision-ready intelligence. Recognized for ease of use, results, and customer support, Agility is one of the most trusted names in media intelligence. Our mission is to empower the voices that shape the world's narratives, and we're looking for people who want to help us do it.\nAbout the Role\nThe Manager, Software Development leads the team responsible for building and maintaining features for a media intelligence and outreach platform. Agility PR Solutions develops state-of-the-art tools to allow public relations professionals to target media influencers and to derive media intelligence to support business decisions. Your team will be building RESTful services in Java and deploying them to a high availability production environment. You will leverage technologies such as Solr, Kafka, Zookeeper to provide the backbone of these services, and solve problems pertaining to large volumes of data, such as distributed workloads and process synchronization. Your team will design, build, and scale production-grade agentic workflows and AI-driven applications.\nAgility is focused on building production-grade agentic workflows and AI-driven applications, and complete, timely mention data is the foundation for the insights and alerts our clients depend on. You will lead, grow, and support a team of software developers, set technical direction, and ensure the team delivers reliable, high-quality work. You will work collaboratively with Product, Customer Success, Sales, Account Management, Content Partnerships, and our leadership team to align engineering work with business priorities and client needs.\nWhat you’ll do\nLead and develop a team of software developers, setting clear goals and expectations. \nBuild a team culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and technical excellence. \nSet technical direction and architecture for crawling, collection, and mention-matching systems. \nPartner with Product Owners to translate client needs and business priorities into a clear technical roadmap. \nEnsure systems are scalable, reliable, and cost-effective as the product evolves. \nEnsure we have an evaluation strategy and framework to evaluate how well our AI Agents are operating. \nOversee incident response and on-call processes, and lead root-cause analysis for production issues. \nStay technically involved through design reviews, code reviews, and hands-on problem solving when needed. \nEvaluate and introduce new tools/AI techniques to ensure the team is productive and efficient. \nWhat You'll Bring\n7+ years of experience in software development, including work with web crawling, data ingestion, or large-scale data pipelines. \n2+ years of experience managing or leading a team of software developers. \nYou possess a bachelor's degree in computer science or related field (or equivalent experience). \nStrong technical background in Java or similar type-safe languages \nExperience designing distributed systems, including message queues or streaming platforms such as Kafka. \nExperience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and CI/CD practices is an asset. \nFamiliarity with search technologies such as Elasticsearch or Solr, and with Boolean query logic. \nExperience working with APIs and third-party data providers. \nExperience working in an Agile environment, and with JIRA and Confluence. \nExcellent communication skills that allow you to explain technical topics clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. \nYou are data driven and use metrics to guide decisions and measure your team's success. \nYou're a leader who balances delivery with the growth and well-being of your team. \nExperience with NLP, LLMs, entity recognition, or sentiment analysis is an asset. \nExperience within PR Software, media monitoring, social listening, or the Newswire industry is an asset. \nWhy You'll Love It Here\nFully remote work environment\nCollaborative culture - and key tools enabling it\nCompetitive compensation package\nHealth, Dental & Vision benefits\nRRSP matching\nLife Insurance\nEmployee Assistance Program (EAP)\nCareer Development & Progression opportunities\nPaid Vacation, Personal Days and Sick days\nWeek off between Christmas and New Years'\nNo Internal Meetings Fridays\nCompensation for this role is expected to fall within the range of $145,000-165,000CAD annually. 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We strongly encourage applications from all people regardless of race, religion, gender, age, disability status or sexual orientation.\nEven if you find yourself not checking all the boxes of our listed requirements but you are excited about this opportunity, we'd love to hear from you anyway. 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