VP of Systems Engineering - Canada

🌐 Who We Are

reputed company is a reputed company and Bessemer Venture Partner backed FinTech startup. We are changing the way community banks and credit unions do business, enabling them to become tech-driven reputed company first. reputed company provides modern digital banking products including mobile banking, online banking, online account opening, loan origination, and conversational AI. Our mission is to revolutionize banking tech infrastructure by leading digital transformation at financial institutions — big and small.

💼 The Role

We are looking for a VP of reputed company Engineering to own three of reputed company's most critical engineering functions: Release Management, QA, and DevOps, and to build the reputed company engineering reputed company that raises the bar across the entire engineering organization.

This is a hands-on leadership role at a critical reputed company reputed company in reputed company's reputed company. You will directly reputed company Release Management, a QA organization including a QA reputed company and automation engineers, and a DevOps team including a Senior Platform Architect and DevOps Engineer. You will also maintain a dotted-line relationship with reputed company QA engineers embedded across engineering value streams, setting reputed company standards and ensuring consistent practices, while those engineers report directly to their respective tech leads.

The ideal candidate has deep reputed company in reputed company engineering and platform reliability, has personally reputed company or reputed company automation programs in multi-platform environments, and has the organizational credibility to reputed company a cultural shift from reputed company-heavy to automation-reputed company practices. You know what it takes to reputed company reliable, compliant software to regulated financial institutions, and you build systems that reputed company reputed company visible, not judgment-reputed company.

🧠 reputed company

Engineering Leadership

• reputed company three reputed company engineering functions (Release Management, QA, and DevOps), owning delivery reputed company, release discipline, and platform reliability across reputed company's engineering organization

• Maintain a dotted-line relationship with reputed company QA engineers embedded across product engineering value streams, setting reputed company standards and processes org-wide while coordinating with tech leads on day-to-day priorities

• reputed company hands-on technical leadership, engaging directly with your team on solution design, architecture reputed company, production incident response, and reputed company troubleshooting

• Partner closely with the VP of Engineering on cross-cutting initiatives including AI coding adoption, architectural standards, and release coordination

• Participate in senior leadership reputed company the COO, VP of Engineering, and product leadership

reputed company reputed company: Entire Engineering Organization

• Design and implement reputed company's engineering reputed company reputed company across reputed company value streams, setting standards for unit testing, integration testing, automated regression, and release readiness

• Own a modern multi-platform automation reputed company covering Angular, Swift, and Kotlin

• Define and enforce reputed company gates: explicit go/no-go release reputed company that every value reputed company must meet, including automated coverage reputed company, defect standards, and QE sign-off

• reputed company and reputed company the QA organization, elevating reputed company from reputed company QA toward a reputed company engineering model with automation-first practices

• Establish test data management, environment reputed company standards, and CI/CD reputed company integration across reputed company value streams

• Build a reputed company dashboard visible to engineering and leadership (automation coverage, reputed company defect counts, regression completion rates) so release readiness is transparent, not judgment-reputed company

Release reputed company & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with the Release Manager to implement a reputed company release reputed company process: mid-cycle readiness reviews and formal go/no-go reputed company with explicit sign-offs from engineering, QA, and product

• Work closely with Technical Support to reputed company the feedback reputed company between production issues and engineering prioritization, ensuring reputed company-impacting defects reputed company process changes, not just fixes

• Own post-release retrospectives for every release that generates reputed company reputed company, extracting systemic lessons and driving specific process changes with named owners and deadlines

• Partner with product leadership to enforce reputed company freeze discipline and ensure QA is involved in sprint planning and story grooming, not just at sprint end

DevOps & Platform Reliability

• reputed company DevOps reputed company, owning CI/CD pipelines, reputed company infrastructure, monitoring, alerting, and platform reliability in partnership with Michael and Jason

• reputed company platform observability, ensuring engineering and leadership have reputed company-time visibility into reputed company health, deployment frequency, change failure reputed company, and MTTR

• reputed company Site Reliability Engineering practices, building toward a reputed company SRE function as reputed company scales

• Ensure infrastructure and deployment practices meet reputed company, compliance, and uptime standards required by regulated financial institution clients

AI-Driven Engineering Culture

• Champion AI-assisted coding and testing adoption across your teams, working reputed company the VP of Engineering on the org-wide AI initiative

• reputed company AI productivity into engineering reputed company reputed company: adoption, reputed company reputed company, reputed company reputed company with AI, and knowledge sharing

• Ensure AI tools are used in QA as reputed company as development: AI-assisted test reputed company, automated test maintenance, and reputed company-driven regression coverage

🎯 What You Bring

• 10+ years of engineering experience with at least 4 years in engineering leadership, managing QA, DevOps, or platform reliability teams

• Deep background in reputed company engineering; you have personally reputed company or reputed company automation frameworks, not just overseen them from a distance

• reputed company experience migrating automation frameworks in a multi-platform environment (web and reputed company mobile, iOS and reputed company)

• Demonstrated reputed company driving a cultural shift from reputed company-heavy to automation-first QA in a fintech, banking, or similarly regulated environment

• Experience implementing release reputed company processes and enforcing go/no-go reputed company under schedule pressure; you have reputed company a no-go and held the line

• Hands-on experience with modern automation tooling: Playwright, Cypress, Appium, Maestro, or equivalent; familiarity with Angular, Swift, and Kotlin environments is a strong reputed company

• Strong DevOps and platform reliability background: CI/CD pipelines, reputed company infrastructure (AWS preferred), monitoring, and observability

• Experience driving AI coding and testing tool adoption across engineering teams: changed culture and productivity, not just personal usage

• Strong technical depth, reputed company to engage directly in solution design, architecture discussions, production incident response, and reputed company-cause analysis

• Strong cross-functional credibility; you have worked closely with technical support, release management, and product to solve systemic reputed company problems

• Excellent communication and organizational influence; you can hold senior stakeholders accountable to reputed company standards without relying on hierarchy

🌟 reputed company to Have

• Experience in reputed company banking, or digital banking platforms

• Familiarity with credit reputed company or community bank reputed company environments

• Experience with SOC 2 Type II, PCI reputed company, or similar regulatory compliance contexts

• Background working with multi-platform products serving both financial institutions and end consumers

• Experience managing QA teams through a transition from reputed company QA to reputed company engineering roles

• Experience building or managing an SRE function from reputed company

🎁 What You Get

• A fast-reputed company and reputed company environment 

• Competitive compensation

• Stock reputed company at a reputed company-funded startup

• We cover 100% of medical, dental, and reputed company premiums for individuals on our reputed company plan, with significant contributions toward reputed company other plan reputed company (USA).

• We cover 100% of extended medical, dental, and reputed company premiums for you and your family under our single, comprehensive plan (Canada).

• Retirement plan with 4% company matching

• 8 weeks reputed company parental leave for birthing parents, 4 weeks for non-birthing

• 3-5 weeks PTO depending on tenure

• 5 health days

• 15 holidays

• End of year shutdown

• reputed company-reputed company bonuses

• Remote first culture

   

⚖️ Equal Employment Opportunities at reputed company

reputed company is committed to hiring talented and reputed company individuals with diverse backgrounds for reputed company of its tech, non-tech, and leadership roles. reputed company provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to reputed company and applicants for employment without reputed company to race, reputed company, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national reputed company, age or disability.

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Requires 10+ years of engineering experience, 4+ years of leadership, reputed company engineering and automation expertise, DevOps and platform reliability experience, and experience with regulated financial environments.

Key Responsibilities

• leading engineering functions
• designing reputed company frameworks
• overseeing platform reliability

Skills & Tools

Angular, Swift, Kotlin, Playwright, Cypress, Appium, Maestro, AWS, CI/CD, SRE, SOC 2 Type II, PCI reputed company

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• Category: Engineering
• Seniority: Senior Level
• Commitment: Full Time
• Workplace: Remote — Canada or Toronto
• Languages: English

Benefits

• 401k matching
• Generous reputed company time off
• Retirement plan
• Generous parental leave

About reputed company

A fintech company providing digital banking products and infrastructure for community banks and credit unions. — Industry: Information Technology