Director of Software Engineering

Director of Software Engineering What you'll be doing Ensure engineers are productive, learning, and doing meaningful work. Coordinate and direct projects, making detailed plans to accomplish technical and product goals. Analyze technology, resource needs, and market demand, to plan and assess the feasibility of projects. Interview and hire the best and brightest software engineers. Mentor and grow individual contributors and managers, helping cultivate their careers. Lead foundational, multi‑discipline teams of engineers working on complex, full‑stack projects with wide impact across the company. Drive the strategy for how we test, validate, and safely deliver new features, balancing speed and stability across our web and mobile apps. Work closely with product, design, legal and customer support to deliver seamless user experiences. Get your hands dirty: review code and contribute when it makes sense. Contribute your fair share of memes to our #dev-null slack channels. Must-Haves 10+ years in software engineering, with 5+ years in leadership, including 2+ years leading leads. Proven ability to scale teams and systems in high‑growth environments. Excellent collaboration and communication abilities to align cross‑functional teams. Nice to Have Experience with Node.js, Typescript, React‑Native, Postgres, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, Datadog. Experience with building financial apps. Bitcoin knowledge. Why join us? Help shape the future of money: Be part of a team that's revolutionizing financial services in Canada. Impact millions: As cryptocurrency continues to gain traction, our potential for growth is massive. Grow your career: We’re growing, and so can you! We have programmes in place to encourage continuous learning, growth, and development. Ideas, not titles: We want the best ideas to make their way through, no matter where they come from. Perks and Benefits Be an owner - Every employee has stock options as part of their total compensation. Reach your goals - Yearly salary assessments. Health & wellness: Access to comprehensive health and dental coverage, including health and wellness spending accounts. Remote‑friendly: Work from anywhere in Canada; optional access to our office spaces in Montreal and Toronto. Level Up: A $2,000 annual budget for courses, certifications, and training. Time off: 20 days of vacation per year, with a $1,000 bonus if all vacation is used. Parental leave: Enjoy a parental leave top up to 100% of your salary for 18 weeks. Have fun together: quarterly team‑specific or company‑wide offsite to connect with each other. We encourage applications from everyone, regardless of background and life experience. We’re firm believers that a little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y‑intercept. Fluency in English is required due to the percentage of English‑speaking customers and the nature of our platform, which is available to all Canadians. #J-18808-Ljbffr