VP of Systems Engineering - Canada
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Canada
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- C level
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 4+ years
- Category
- Not specified
- Posted
Skills
Nice to have
- Experience in fintech, core banking, or digital banking platforms.
- Familiarity with credit union or community bank client environments.
- Familiarity with Angular, Swift, and Kotlin development environments.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code, such as Terraform or comparable technologies.
- Experience with broader Azure services supporting modern SaaS platforms.
- Experience with SOC 2 Type II, PCI DSS, or similar regulatory compliance contexts.
- Experience managing QA teams through a transition from manual QA to quality engineering roles.
- Experience building or scaling an SRE or Platform Engineering function.
- Experience establishing DORA metrics, quality scorecards, or engineering reliability dashboards.
Full description
🌐 Who We Are
Bankjoy is a Y Combinator and Bessemer Venture Partner backed FinTech startup. We are changing the way community banks and credit unions do business, enabling them to become tech-driven and digital first. Bankjoy provides modern digital banking products including mobile banking, online banking, online account opening, loan origination, and conversational AI. Our mission is to revolutionize banking tech infrastructure by leading digital transformation at financial institutions — big and small.
💼 The Role
We are looking for a VP of Systems Engineering to own three of Bankjoy's most critical engineering functions: Release Management, Quality Engineering, and DevOps, and to build the quality engineering framework that raises the bar across the entire engineering organization.
This is a hands-on leadership role at a critical inflection point in Bankjoy's growth. You will directly lead Release Management, a QA organization including a QA Lead and automation engineers, and a DevOps team responsible for platform delivery and reliability. You will also maintain a dotted-line relationship with manual QA engineers embedded across engineering value streams, setting quality standards and ensuring consistent practices while those engineers report directly to their respective technical leads.
Bankjoy is a Microsoft .NET development organization operating a cloud-native Azure platform, primarily hosted on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), deployed through Helm, and delivered through Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines using Agile development practices.
The ideal candidate has deep roots in quality engineering, has personally built or rebuilt automation programs in complex, multi-platform environments, and has the technical breadth to lead Release Management, DevOps, and platform reliability alongside QA. You have the organizational credibility to drive a cultural shift from manual-heavy testing toward automation-first quality practices and shared engineering ownership of quality.
You know what it takes to deliver reliable, compliant software to regulated financial institutions, and you build systems that make quality and release readiness visible, measurable, and repeatable rather than judgment-based.
🧠 What You'll Do
Engineering Leadership
- Lead Release Management, Quality Engineering, and DevOps, owning delivery quality, release discipline, and platform reliability across Bankjoy.
- Maintain a dotted-line relationship with QA engineers embedded across product engineering value streams, establishing organization-wide quality standards while coordinating execution with technical leads.