Engineering Manager

About Tali

Clinicians are drowning in paperwork. We're giving them their time back.

Tali AI is one of the fastest-growing startups in Canada, on a mission to make healthcare more accessible with AI. We're building the clinical operating system: an ambient AI scribe, a billing agent, scheduling, clinical decision support, and more on one platform that allows clinicians to look at their patients instead of their keyboards. Thousands of clinicians across Canada and the US already use Tali, across dozens of specialties, integrated deeply with the fragmented landscape of North American health-record systems.

The traction is real: multiple commercial product lines, 15M+ patient visits documented on the platform, 70+ years worth of time saved for clinicians in under three years. We move fast in a market that rewards speed, in a domain where breaking clinician trust is not recoverable.

We're hiring an Engineering Manager who reports to the VP of Engineering. You'll own people leadership for a group of our engineers: their growth, performance, well-being, and talent bar. You’ll be implementing and shaping our engineering growth culture.

Your leverage in this role is people: building the team, delegating, developing the team’s skills, removing systemic bottlenecks. The leaders we hire now will shape what Tali engineering becomes. You’re comfortable diagnosing and solving problems with structure, process, tooling, or helping individuals change how they relate to their work, what they're afraid of, and what drives them.

This is a player-coach role. You are a strong engineer, you can stay close to technical work, or roll up your sleeves and do it if you judge that’s the best use of your time.

• Own growth, performance, 1:1s, and the talent bar for a team of engineers (software, ML, and infrastructure).
• Own outcomes end to end. Your team builds with PM, design, CS, and sales in the same room. No walls, no throwing work over the fence.
• Unblock people day in and day out: the small decisions on product, technology, and someone's growth that keep a team moving.
• Coach the person, not just the work. Debug the root cause once, so the person ends up on a self-improving path.
• Set clarity and context. Take a messy situation and boil it down to the few things the team must understand to paddle in the same direction.
• Model the system, not the symptom. When something is underperforming, look past the obvious answer to the systemic cause: the flows, the bottlenecks, the rates of change, or how people work.
• Sustain urgency without burning people out. Calibrate the right level of energy and put it back into the system.
• Lead an AI-native team: contribute to re-inventing how work gets done in the software industry. Decompose ambiguous goals into AI-executable work, eval what comes out, identify leverage points for durable investments in AI infrastructure, and coach your team to do the same.
• Raise the bar and build a repeatable way of managing. We need someone who innovates on the craft, not someone who runs ceremonies.

• 7+ years of experience in engineering, including 2+ as a manager and 5+ years as an IC engineer. You've managed people who visibly grew, levelled up, got promoted, or went on to lead. Ideally, you've built or reshaped how a team works (rituals, tooling, culture, process) to solve real business problems.
• Player-coach at a startup or scale-up. You scaled a small, high-output team while staying close to the work. Technical depth across the stack is a must. You can still drop into technical work when that’s the best use of your time.
• You reason from first principles. Your use of best practices, frameworks, or playbooks is judicious. You’re comfortable putting them aside when they’re not a right fit. Your judgement is your ultimate source of value, and building the judgement of others is how you work through others.
• Radical Candor. You can take hard feedback, sit with it, and change your mind if necessary. You can deliver hard feedback while remaining radically caring about the human on the other side. This is the trait we trust most.
• Experience in a regulated industry is an asset…