Senior Director, Software Engineering

NextGenEnergyJobs; Canada; On-site; CAD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

GoodLeap is seeking a senior engineering leader to head the Funding & Payments team. You will mentor engineering managers and senior ICs, shaping a high-performance culture while driving a multi-quarter roadmap linked to underwriting, funding, and payments outcomes.

You will own architecture, reliability, and security across critical systems, ensuring compliance in a regulated environment and advancing CI/CD, observability, and scalable delivery.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering experience with 5+ years in technical leadership roles.
• Proven track record in complex, regulated fintech, lending or payments platforms.
• Experience building distributed, event-driven microservices for high-volume systems.
• Strong cloud and API design expertise; ability to scale engineering org.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the Funding & Payments engineering team.
• Mentor engineering managers and senior ICs to build a high-performance culture.
• Define a multi-quarter roadmap tied to underwriting, funding, and payments outcomes.
• Own architecture and reliability of systems spanning underwriting and payments workflows.
• Establish security, compliance, and auditability standards for regulated lending environments.
• Drive CI/CD, observability, and deployment automation across the service estate.
• Partner with Product, Risk, Compliance, and Operations to align delivery with outcomes.
• Own delivery across multiple services and teams, balancing speed and stability.
• Define and track KPIs for financing/payments volume, conversions, and risk metrics.
• Scale platform teams and implement on-call, incident response, and SLAs.

Skills

Engineering Leadership

Fintech / Payments

Distributed Microservices

Underwriting / Decisioning

AWS Cloud

CI/CD & Automation

Hiring & Scaling Teams

Stakeholder Management

AI Tooling in SDLC

Platform Scaling

Job description

GoodLeap is a technology company delivering best-in-class financing and software products for sustainable solutions, from solar panels and batteries to energy-efficient HVAC, heat pumps, roofing, windows, and more.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the Funding & Payments engineering team
• Mentor engineering managers and senior ICs, building a high-performance, accountable engineering culture
• Own hiring, calibration, and career development for a team operating in an expanding domain
• Define and communicate a multi-quarter engineering roadmap tied to underwriting, funding, and payments outcomes
• Own the architecture and reliability of systems spanning underwriting decisioning, submission and approval workflows, funding, and payments processing
• Set and enforce engineering standards for security, compliance, and auditability appropriate to a regulated lending and payments environment
• Champion modern engineering practices — including AI-assisted and agentic development workflows — to raise team velocity and quality
• Partner with Product, Risk, Compliance, and Operations to align engineering delivery with contractor-facing financing and payments outcomes
• Own delivery across initiatives spanning multiple services and teams, balancing speed, risk, and system stability
• Define and track KPIs across financing/payments transaction volume, submission-to-close conversion, and fraud/delinquency risk metrics
• Drive CI/CD, observability, and deployment automation across the Financing & Payments service estate
• Manage technical debt and platform scalability as transaction volume and product surface area grow
• Establish the operating rigor — on-call, incident response, SLAs — required for systems that gate real money movement

Requirements

• 10+ years of engineering experience, including 5+ years in technical leadership roles managing managers and cross-functional teams
• Proven track record leading engineering for complex, regulated fintech, lending, or payments platforms
• Deep experience with distributed, event-driven microservices architectures supporting high-volume transactional systems
• Experience with underwriting/decisioning systems, loan origination or servicing pipelines, or payments processing infrastructure
• Strong grasp of cloud-native architecture (AWS or equivalent), API design, and modern CI/CD practices
• Track record of scaling an engineering organization through growth — hiring, structuring teams, and expanding scope
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, comfortable operating across Product, Risk, and Compliance
• Experience in point-of-sale financing, home improvement/solar lending, or contractor-facing fintech
• Experience integrating AI or agentic tooling into the software development lifecycle to improve engineering throughput
• Background scaling a platform team from a single product line into a broader organization — mirroring this role's growth path