Lead Software Engineer

CEI Fleet Collision and Safety; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 111,000 - 153,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and welfare benefits

Paid time off (vacation, sick leave, &

Holidays

Job summary

Element Fleet Management in Toronto seeks a hands-on Java/Spring technical leader to drive end-to-end solution delivery for Billing and Maintenance, across frontend, backend, APIs, and data layers, including AI-enabled capabilities. You will guide vendor teams and align with enterprise standards to modernize operations and improve client experience.

The role requires 8+ years in software delivery and 3+ years of technical leadership, with deep AWS/Kubernetes experience, secure-by-design

Qualifications

• 8+ years delivering production-grade software with backend API and cloud-native delivery.
• 3+ years in technical leadership guiding design and vendor teams.
• Experience with Java/Spring Boot, Node.js, or Python and REST/GraphQL APIs.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end solution delivery for Billing and Maintenance apps across frontend, backend, APIs/services, integrations, data layers, AI capabilities and vendor components.
• Drive AI-assisted engineering as a core practice to accelerate delivery.
• Coordinate with product, operations, QA, design, security, and vendors to align requirements and priorities.
• Ensure security, performance, and reliability across solutions and enforce engineering standards.

Skills

Backend engineering

Solution design

AWS cloud

Technical leadership

APIs/REST

AI-assisted development

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/SE or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes/EKS

AWS Lambda

GitHub Copilot

Cursor

Claude

Job description

Get started on an exciting career at Element! Element employees make a difference in the lives of others every day. We are re-defining the fleet management industry to be people first, then business – delivering on our promise of a superior client experience. This takes hard work and innovation, and we need more like-minded people on our team.

About the Role

We’re seeking a hands‑on Java/Spring technical leader who has led end-to-end solution design and delivery of API-driven, cloud-native applications on AWS. This is not a pure architecture or people-management role—you’ll remain technically close to the solution while leading architecture, engineering delivery, and development teams. In this role, you will lead end-to-end solution delivery across the Billing and Maintenance product landscape, driving modernization of maintenance operations, improving billing accuracy, and enhancing service reliability. You will serve as the overall technical and delivery lead across multiple vendor development teams, ensuring alignment between solution architecture, application development, and business objectives. This role partners closely with product, operations, vendors, and internal IT teams to deliver scalable, secure, and high-quality solutions that improve operational efficiency, revenue protection, and client experience.

What You’ll Do

• Lead end-to-end solution delivery for Billing and Maintenance applications across front end, back end, APIs/services, integrations, data layers, AI-enabled capabilities, and vendor-supported components.
• Drive AI-assisted engineering as a core practice across the team — leveraging tools like GitHub Copilot, Claude, or equivalent platforms for code generation, refactoring, test authoring, debugging, documentation, and solution prototyping to meaningfully accelerate delivery.
• Identify and lead practical AI, automation, and intelligent workflow opportunities across Billing and Maintenance to reduce manual effort, improve billing accuracy, detect anomalies, support decision‑making, and enhance client experience.
• Serve as the overall application lead, solution architecture lead, and functional SME across Billing and Maintenance initiatives from intake, design, development, testing, release, and production support.
• Provide technical, functional, and delivery direction to vendor development teams, ensuring architecture, application development, AI opportunities, and business requirements are aligned to enterprise standards and product outcomes.
• Translate business needs into scalable functional and technical specifications, including impact analysis, solution options, design decisions, dependencies, risks, security considerations, and effort estimates.
• Lead architecture and solution design discussions, ensuring implementations meet security, performance, availability, scalability, compliance, resiliency, maintainability, data governance, and AI risk standards.
• Partner with product, operations, QA, design, business stakeholders, IT, security, data, and vendor teams to refine requirements, prioritize work, manage dependencies, track deliverables, and drive Agile execution.
• Establish and enforce engineering standards for clean, secure, maintainable code through design reviews, code reviews, refactoring, automated testing, CI/CD improvements, and release governance.
• Act as the primary escalation and decision‑making point for complex system issues during project delivery, enhancements, testing, release, production support, and incident response.
• Facilitate knowledge transfer between Element IT, vendor partners, and business stakeholders while mentoring team members, promoting best practices, and maintaining API specifications, architecture notes, runbooks, support guides, and operational readiness documentation.

Basic Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands‑on experience delivering production‑grade software solutions, with strong depth in backend engineering, APIs/services, integrations, data layers, and cloud‑native application delivery.
• Must have 3+ years of technical leadership experience, including leading solution design, breaking down work, mentoring engineers, guiding vendor development teams, and driving code quality through reviews and engineering standards.
• Strong proficiency in at least one modern backend language/framework (e.g., Java/Spring Boot, Node.js, or Python), with experience designing scalable REST/GraphQL APIs, microservices, event‑driven services, and integration patterns.
• Must have hands‑on experience designing, building, deploying, and operating cloud‑native applications on AWS, including containerized workloads (Kubernetes/EKS, ECS), serverless services such as AWS Lambda, managed databases, and cloud security practices.
• Demonstrated, hands‑on use of AI‑assisted development tools (e.g.GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or Claude/ChatGPT for dev workflows) to improve engineering productivity across the SDLC.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong hands‑on understanding of DevOps and cloud‑native delivery practices, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, automated deployments, observability, release management, and production reliability.

Preferred Qualifications

• Frontend development experience using modern frameworks such as React, Angular is an added advantage.
• Hands‑on experience or strong working knowledge of Agentic AI solutions, including AI agents, workflow automation, LLM integration, prompt orchestration, tool/function calling, human‑in‑the‑loop controls, and responsible AI practices.
• Ability to effectively use AI‑assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity, including code generation, debugging, refactoring, test creation, documentation, and solution prototyping while maintaining code quality, security, and compliance standards.
• Experience with observability practices including logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, dashboards, and production health monitoring.
• Strong understanding of secure‑by‑design practices, including authentication, authorization, secrets management, vulnerability remediation, OWASP fundamentals, and data protection.
• Experience evaluating or integrating AI/ML platforms, copilots, third‑party AI services, or intelligent automation solutions into enterprise applications.

Location

Toronto. Our Mississauga office will move to 1 Adelaide in Toronto in September2026.

Hiring Base Salary Range

The hiringbase salary range for this position is$111,100 -$152,800 annually. Actual compensation within this range will be dependent upon the individual’s knowledge, skills, experience, equity with other team members, and alignment with market data. Please note that the disclosed salary range is solely for candidates hired to perform work within this

What’s in it for You

• A culture of innovation, empowerment, decision‑making, and accountability
• Comprehensive health and welfare benefits that serve the needs of you and your family and foster a culture of wellness (for qualified roles)
• Additional benefits and amenities, including paid time‑off programs (vacation, sick leave, and holidays) (for qualified roles)

Background Check

Applicants will be required to undergo a background check only if and after a conditional offer of employment has been extended.

Equal Opportunity Employment

Element Fleet Management and its wholly owned subsidiaries are an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. We are pleased to consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, genetic information, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, family status, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, physical or mental disability, veteran status, military obligations or any other characteristic protected by federal, state and local laws. Disability‑related accommodations during the application and interview process are available upon request. Should you require an accommodation with our hiring process please send an email to [e-mail] or call (800) 665‑9744.

AI‑Assisted Tools

Element Fleet Management also uses AI‑assisted tools to help screen and assess applications. These tools analyze information you provide (for example, your rēsumē and screening responses) to identify job‑related skills, qualifications, and experience. AI outputs do not by themselves determine whether you advance or receive an offer – they assist recruiters and hiring managers. Final hiring decisions are made by people.

Company Overview

Element Fleet Management (TSX: EFN) is the largest publicly traded pure‑play automotive fleet manager in the world. As a Purpose‑driven and client‑centric company, we deliver value through scalable, sustainable, and technology‑enabled fleet and mobility solutions. Through the Element‑Arval Global Alliance, we operate in over 50 countries, supporting clients across North America, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and beyond. Our global reach is further extended by Autofleet, our technology platform accelerating the modernization of our digital capabilities. Element delivers end‑to‑end solutions to our clients—from vehicle acquisition and maintenance to EV integration, route optimization, risk management, and remarketing.

Our People Drive Our Success

At Element, our success begins with you. Inspired by our Purpose to Move the world through intelligent mobility—and guided by our Values: We are always a force for good, We are experts defining the future of mobility and We are driven by client success. Everyday, our team members deliver on our Purpose and our Values for each other, our communities and our clients. It’s our commitment to how we work, grow and put our clients at the heart of everything we do.