Director of Software Engineering

Summary

Join Shakepay, a company revolutionizing financial services in Canada, and help build the future of money. As Director of Software Engineering, you will lead and mentor a team of passionate developers, building and scaling systems in a high-growth environment. You will be responsible for ensuring engineers' productivity and growth, coordinating projects, analyzing technology needs, and driving the strategy for software delivery. The role requires extensive experience in software engineering and leadership, with a proven ability to scale teams and systems. Shakepay offers a comprehensive benefits package including stock options, health and dental coverage, remote work options, a professional development budget, generous vacation time, parental leave top-up, and team-building activities.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Node.js, Typescript, React-Native, Postgres, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, Datadog
• Experience with building financial apps
• Bitcoin knowledge

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, with optional access to our office spaces in Montreal and Toronto
• Level Up : A $2,000 annual budget for courses, certifications, and training to support your career growth
• Time off : 20 days of vacation per year. And if you use all your vacation, we give you a $1,000 bonus
• 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