About DemandBridge

DemandBridge builds the ERP and e-commerce software that print, promotional products, and marketing-services distributors run their businesses on, from order entry and inventory to procurement and online storefronts. Hundreds of distributors across North America rely on our platform to serve their clients faster, keep costs under control, and grow.

DemandBridge is part of Fluent Software Group (a Valsoft Corporation operating group), a global acquirer and operator of vertical market software businesses. We focus on specialized industries where expertise creates lasting advantages.

The Opportunity

We're looking for a hands-on engineering leader to take our team through its most important chapter in years: building our next-generation ERP. This is a player-coach role — you'll manage and develop the team, raise the bar on how we build and ship software, and still get into the code and architecture yourself. You'll work hand-in-hand with a newly strengthened Product team to turn the roadmap into reliable, predictable delivery.

Location: Canada or US (remote)

The salary range for this role is $170,000 CAD– $200,000 CAD per year. Final compensation will be determined based on experience, skills, and location.

What You'll Own

Lead and Grow the Team

• Manage, coach, and develop engineers through regular 1:1s, clear expectations, and consistent feedback

• Assess the current team's strengths and gaps, and make recommendations on hiring, development, and structure

• Hire and onboard engineers, and build a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement

Build the Next-Generation ERP

• Set technical direction and lead architecture decisions for the new ERP, including finalizing the technology stack (Java-based direction)

• Stay hands-on: code reviews, design, prototyping, and contributing directly to critical components

• Balance modernization with supporting existing product lines and current customers, and manage technical debt proactively

Raise the Bar on Engineering Practices and Delivery

• Own the software development lifecycle: a shared sprint cadence, daily standups, retrospectives, and release schedules across all teams

• Shorten and stabilize release cycles by strengthening automated testing, CI/CD, and Engineering's ownership of release quality

• Set clear standards for code review, testing, and observability

• Drive team adoption of AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or equivalent)

Partner with Product

• Engage early in epic kickoffs and discovery to provide sizing estimates and technical feasibility input

• Own engineering capacity planning by quarter and sprint so roadmap commitments are realistic — and met

• Communicate trade-offs, risks, and progress clearly to Product, Support, and leadership

Own Infrastructure, Reliability, and Compliance

• Oversee IT/Infrastructure and Site Reliability Engineering alongside the software engineering team

• Own production incidents and the on-call model, and act as the escalation point for outages and critical issues

• Own the PCI compliance process end to end, from controls and audits through remediation

• Own Azure cost optimization: track spend, right-size environments, and hold the team accountable for cloud costs

• Keep the legacy platform (Linux, Perl, Spring Boot, Oracle, SQL) stable and secure while the next-generatio