Director of Engineering

TLNT Bridge Recruiting; Canada; Remote; CAD 160,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Comprehensive benefits

Remote work

Job summary

TLNT Bridge Recruiting represents a fast-growing B2B SaaS company seeking a Director of Engineering to lead a distributed team of 15+ engineers across frontend, backend, and infrastructure. You will partner with Product, Design, and the CTO to shape the engineering roadmap and drive AI-assisted development.

You will scale the organization to 20+ engineers, establish ownership and accountability, and reinforce high standards for reliability, security, and performance in a payment-rich platform.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of engineering leadership experience.
• 3+ years managing remote or distributed engineering teams.
• Experience leading engineering organizations in a high-growth B2B SaaS environment.
• Experience scaling engineering teams and establishing effective development processes.
• Strong understanding of software architecture and when to apply standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a distributed engineering organization of 15+ engineers.
• Scale the team to 20+ engineers and establish clear ownership and accountability.
• Partner with Product, Design, and the CTO to drive the engineering roadmap.
• Champion AI-assisted development tools and improve engineering velocity.
• Ensure CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and high-availability practices.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Remote team management

SaaS architecture

AI strategy

CI/CD

ERP integrations

Frontend: React/TypeScript

Tools

Claude

Job description

Our client is a fast-growing B2B SaaS company modernizing the building-supply industry through technology. Their platform helps independent dealers and wholesalers manage the complete order-to-cash process, including branded digital storefronts, professional customer portals, accounts receivable automation, and secure online payments.

The platform integrates deeply with complex legacy and modern ERP systems, helping building-supply businesses sell more efficiently, serve their customers better, and get paid faster.

With the company continuing to expand its platform and AI capabilities, this is an opportunity to join an organization at an important stage of growth and have a significant impact on its engineering organization.

The Opportunity

Our client is looking for an experienced Director of Engineering to take ownership of the day-to-day leadership and operational execution of a growing engineering organization.

The CTO is increasingly focused on the company's broader AI strategy, AI product development, and architectural innovation. This role will become the operational leader for Engineering, ensuring the team can execute quickly while maintaining the stability, scalability, security, and reliability expected from a mission-critical SaaS platform.

You'll connect the company's AI strategy with disciplined engineering execution. That includes embracing AI-assisted development tools, improving engineering velocity, strengthening development processes, and establishing the technical guardrails required to support a high-growth platform.

This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who enjoys building strong engineering teams, improving how software gets delivered, and stepping into technical challenges when needed.

What You'll Do

• Lead, manage, coach, and develop a distributed engineering organization of 15+ engineers across frontend, backend, and infrastructure.
• Help scale the engineering organization to 20+ engineers.
• Establish clear expectations around ownership, accountability, technical quality, and delivery.
• Develop engineering leaders and create a strong culture of continuous improvement.
• Partner closely with Product, Design, and the CTO to prioritize and execute the engineering roadmap.

Accelerate Delivery Through AI

• Champion the adoption of AI-assisted development tools throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Explore and implement technologies such as Claude, automated code review, AI-powered QA, monitoring agents, and other developer productivity tools.
• Identify opportunities to reduce engineering toil and increase development velocity without sacrificing quality.
• Help establish practical processes for using AI effectively within a modern engineering organization.

Build a Highly Reliable Platform

• Establish and maintain strong CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and monitoring practices.
• Ensure engineering processes support high availability and minimize regressions.
• Help maintain the reliability and security of systems handling payments, accounts receivable workflows, and high-volume transactional data.
• Establish appropriate engineering standards and guardrails as the company scales.

Support Customer-Facing AI

• Partner with the CTO and Product organization to scale and operationalize AI capabilities.
• Help bring AI-powered features into production reliably and at scale.
• Support technologies and workflows involving document parsing, OCR, NLP, and AI-assisted order entry.

Scale Complex Integrations

• Provide technical leadership for integrations with ERP and other external systems.
• Help ensure integrations are scalable, secure, fault-tolerant, and capable of handling high volumes of data.
• Work with systems that may include both modern cloud APIs and complex legacy or on-premise infrastructure.
• Establish predictable delivery processes and clear engineering metrics.
• Drive effective sprint planning, OKRs, and prioritization.
• Remove organizational and technical blockers.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, learning, and psychological safety.
• Balance speed of execution with appropriate technical standards and long-term maintainability.
• Frontend: React, TypeScript

What We’re Looking For

• 7+ years of engineering leadership experience.
• 3+ years managing remote or distributed engineering teams.
• Experience leading engineering organizations in a high-growth B2B SaaS environment.
• Experience scaling engineering teams and establishing effective development processes.
• A strong understanding of software architecture and the ability to determine when to move quickly versus when stronger technical standards are required.
• A pragmatic, hands-on leadership style. You don't need to be writing production code every day, but you're comfortable getting into the technical details and helping the team solve difficult problems.
• Experience working cross-functionally with Product, Design, and Engineering.
• Experience with applications that depend heavily on integrations, APIs, or two-way data synchronization with external systems.
• Strong interest in AI-assisted software development and a practical understanding of how AI can improve engineering productivity.

Nice to Have

• Experience with fintech, payments, invoicing, accounts receivable, or financial systems.
• Experience building high-reliability applications where downtime or data integrity issues directly impact customers and revenue.
• Experience in construction technology, ConTech, PropTech, building materials, or supply-chain technology.
• Experience working with ERP platforms or other complex enterprise systems.
• Experience taking customer-facing AI products from development into production.

Why Join Our Client?

Make an Impact in a Massive Industry

Play a key role in modernizing how building materials are ordered, sold, and paid for across North America.

Work closely with a CTO and leadership team that are actively embracing AI-assisted development, automation, and modern engineering practices.

This is an opportunity to take meaningful ownership of the engineering organization and directly influence how the team operates and scales.

Real Traction

Join a company with an established customer base, significant transaction volume, and a strong opportunity for continued growth.

Remote & Flexible

Work remotely with a distributed engineering organization and enjoy competitive compensation, equity, and comprehensive benefits.