Director, Engineering

Accommodations Plus International; Tampere; Hybrid; EUR 118,000 - 124,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RRSP with employer matching

Paid Time Off

Extended health insurance

Long-term disability (LTD)

Life insurance

Employee Assistance Program

High-growth environment

Job summary

Accommodations Plus International is hiring an Engineering Director to lead 10–20 engineers across multiple regions. The role combines hands-on technical leadership with strategic oversight, setting direction and elevating engineering standards.

You will mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions, and ensure delivery against the product roadmap. You will partner with product and business leaders to translate strategy into technical roadmaps, improve velocity, and foster excellence in code

Qualifications

• At least 7 years of software development experience with 3+ years leading a team.
• Deep technical background in Java and Angular (or React/Vue).
• Relational databases (Oracle, Postgres) and NoSQL experience.
• Production AWS experience across compute, networking, and data services.
• Experience using AI tools in the software development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of 10–20 engineers across North America and India, fostering a high-performance culture across time zones.
• Own architecture and system design across the stack and drive delivery of complex distributed systems on AWS.
• Partner with product and business leaders to translate strategy into technical roadmaps; align across teams.
• Drive delivery against product and platform roadmaps; improve velocity through process and tooling.
• Raise the bar on code quality, testing, observability, and incident response; leverage AI tools.

Skills

7+ years software development

3+ years leading a team

Java

Angular/React/Vue

Education

BSc/BA in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Oracle/Postgres

NoSQL (DynamoDB/MongoDB/Cassandra)

AWS

Job description

Position Overview:

We’re hiring an Engineering Director to lead a team of 10–20 engineers building scalable, production-grade systems. This is a newly created role reporting to the SVP of Engineering. It combines hands-on technical leadership with strategic oversight—you’ll set direction, elevate engineering standards, and drive delivery. This is a hybrid role based in our Markham, Ontario office.

Success in this Role

• Delivery: the team consistently ships on commitments against the product roadmap
• Modernization: meaningful progress moving the platform off legacy patterns toward a modern, cloud-native architecture
• Velocity: measurable increase in delivery speed (cycle time, deploy frequency, lead time for change)
• Engineering Excellence: best practices instilled across the team, including code review, testing, CI/CD, observability, and on-call discipline

What You’ll Do

Essential Functions:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Key responsibilities

• Leadership & Team Building: Lead and grow a team of 10 to 20 engineers across North America and India, fostering a high performance collaborative culture across time zones.
• Technical Leadership: Own architecture and system design across the stack. Drive delivery of Brcomplex, distributed systems on AWS. Stay close enough to the code to make sharp technical calls and mentor engineers on craft.
• Cross-Functional Impact: Partner with product and business leaders to translate strategy into technical roadmap. Drive alignment across teams and influence technical strategy.
• Delivery & Execution: Own delivery against the product and platform roadmap. Improve engineering velocity through process, tooling and best practice.
• Engineering Excellence: Raise the bar on code quality, testing, and operational excellence. Build strong observability and incident response practice. Leverage modern AI tools to improve productivity and quality.

What You’ll Bring

Minimum Qualifications

• At least 7 years of software development experience, with 3+ years leading a team. This includes hiring, performance management, and developing senior engineers
• Deep technical background in Java and Angular (or a comparable modern frontend framework such as React or Vue)
• Solid experience with Oracle, Postgres, or similar relational databases, including schema design, performance tuning, and the hard parts
• Working experience with NoSQL databases (e.g. DynamoDB, MongoDB, Cassandra) and a clear sense of when to reach for them
• Production AWS experience across compute, networking, and data services
• Ability to comprehend and contribute to systems design, including scalability, reliability, trade-offs, and failure modes
• Demonstrable use of AI tools in the software development lifecycle, such as coding assistants, agentic workflows, code review, and test generation. You should be able to show concretely how you and your teams ship faster and better with AI

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience modernizing legacy Java systems, multi-region AWS deployments.

Education

• BSc/BA in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work

• Experience modernizing legacy Java systems, multi-region AWS deployments.

Supervisory Responsibility

• 3+ years of leadership experience

What’s In it for You

• RRSP with employer matching
• Paid Time Off
• Extended health insurance, LTD, life insurance, and Employee Assistance Program
• High-growth oriented environment with results-driven team
• Opportunity to create high-impact change for real users worldwide

Compensation

Good faith annual salary range for this position is $190,000 to $200,000 CAD and is commensurate with experience and location.