Tech Lead - Software Engineering

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Own technical direction for streaming, storage, and training pipelines.
• Turn roadmaps into technical plans, milestones, and execution priorities; identify risks and dependencies.
• Lead architecture reviews, technical decisions, and documentation of key decisions.
• Code, review code, debug issues, and support production incidents.
• Mentor engineers and raise standards for design, quality, operations, and execution.
• Own alert quality, on-call load, incident follow-through, and root-cause prevention.
• Partner with Product, TAM, and customer-facing teams on customer-impacting issues.
• Set standards for AI-assisted engineering and develop LLM- and agent-assisted engineering and operations tools.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software development experience and 2+ years of technical leadership experience.
• Proven ability to lead technical outcomes across a team, including work not personally implemented.
• Production Java expertise; working proficiency in Python and Shell scripting.
• Experience designing, building, shipping, and operating distributed real-time systems at scale.
• Knowledge of computer systems, relational databases, and SQL; experience with multithreaded and concurrent applications.
• Hands-on experience with Cassandra, Yugabyte, Flink, Spark, or Kafka; experience with the Spring Framework.
• Production use of AI coding tools and ability to define team practices for safe use and output verification.
• Strong verification discipline using source code, logs, documentation, and production behavior.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in fraud, risk, payments, financial services, or another high-impact false-negative domain is preferred.
• Experience owning ML platforms or large-scale training pipelines, or with Kubernetes, is preferred.
• Experience with LLM APIs, agent frameworks, tool calling, RAG, or MCP is preferred.
• Experience evaluating or regression-testing non-deterministic systems is preferred.
• Experience hiring, managing, or mentoring engineers and experience with test-driven development are preferred.

Compensation and benefits

• Base salary range is CAD 130,000–CAD 170,000, commensurate with experience; no pay cadence is stated.
• Benefits include health insurance, paid time off, and equity.

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