Vice President, Engineering

Director / Vice President Engineering

Location: Greater Toronto Area (Hybrid)
Employment Type: Full-Time

About Our Client

Our client is an innovative technology company developing enterprise software that supports mission-critical operations for some of North Americas leading transportation and logistics organizations.

Their platform processes millions of operational events each month and serves customers across Canada the United States and internationally. Combining AI computer vision sensor technology workflow automation and deep integrations with enterprise systems they are redefining how complex logistics environments operate.

With a growing international team and an established product in market they are entering the next phase of growth and are seeking an experienced engineering leader to help shape the future of their technology platform.

The Opportunity

Our client is seeking a Director or Vice President of Engineering to lead the strategy architecture development and delivery of their core software platform.

This is a senior leadership position with responsibility for both technical direction and engineering execution. The successful candidate will partner closely with executive leadership and Product to define the long-term technology roadmap while building and leading a high-performing engineering organization.

This role is ideal for someone who combines deep technical expertise with a proven track record of scaling SaaS platforms and engineering teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the long-term engineering and technology strategy.
• Lead mentor and grow a high-performing software engineering team.
• Drive architectural decisions that improve scalability security reliability and performance.
• Partner closely with Product Operations and executive leadership to align technology initiatives with business objectives.
• Establish and promote engineering best practices across software development testing deployment and operational excellence.
• Continue advancing the organizations adoption of AI throughout both the product and software development lifecycle.
• Foster a culture of ownership collaboration innovation and continuous improvement.
• Ensure the platform remains secure resilient and capable of supporting continued business growth.

Qualifications

The successful candidate will bring a combination of technical depth leadership experience and strong product-thinking capabilities.

Required Experience

• Progressive career growth from Software Engineer into Engineering Leadership.
• Experience leading engineering teams within a SaaS or product-focused technology company.
• Strong background designing building and operating large-scale distributed cloud platforms.
• Demonstrated success supporting products with recurring revenue models rather than project-based delivery organizations.
• Experience establishing engineering standards architecture governance and software development best practices.
• Proven ability to recruit develop and retain high-performing engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of cloud architecture APIs security DevOps CI/CD and modern software engineering practices.

AI & Engineering Excellence

Our client is looking for a leader who understands how AI can materially improve engineering effectiveness.

The ideal candidate will have experience implementing AI-enabled development practices that improve productivity software quality and delivery velocitynot simply personal experience using AI tools. They should be able to demonstrate measurable improvements to engineering workflows through thoughtful adoption of AI.

Technical Leadership

Although this is an executive leadership position technical credibility remains essential. The successful candidate should be comfortable participating in architecture discussions reviewing technical approaches and earning the confidence and respect of senior software engineers.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing AI computer vision machine learning or intelligent automation solutions.
• Experience integrating with enterprise platforms such as TMS WMS ERP IoT or other operational technologies.
• Experience scaling engineering organizations during periods of rapid company growth.
• Experience leading distributed or international engineering teams.

Why Join

This is an opportunity to join a well-established product-driven technology company at an exciting stage of growth. The successful candidate will have significant influence over the future direction of the platform engineering organization and technology strategy while working alongside a collaborative leadership team committed to innovation and long-term success.

If youre passionate about building scalable software leading exceptional engineering teams and delivering technology that solves complex real-world business challenges wed welcome the opportunity to speak with you.

Vacancy Status / Statut du poste
This is an active position currently open for hiring. / Ce poste est activement ouvert au recrutement.
Use of Artificial Intelligence / Utilisation de lintelligence artificielle
emergiTEL uses artificial intelligence to help identify and source candidates for this role. All assessment and selection decisions are made by our recruiters a human is always involved and no applicant is evaluated or rejected by automated means alone. / emergiTEL a recours à lintelligence artificielle pour aider à identifier et à trouver des candidats pour ce poste. Toutes les décisions relatives à lévaluation et à la sélection sont prises par nos recruteurs ; une intervention humaine est systématiquement assurée et aucun candidat nest évalué ou rejeté uniquement par des moyens automatisés.

Required Experience:

Exec

Experience: years
Vacancy: 1