Director, Engineering

Flywheel

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Toronto - Canada

profile Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed
Posted on: Yesterday
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About Flywheel

Flywheels suite of digital commerce solutions accelerate growth across all major digital marketplaces for the worlds leading brands. We give clients access to near real-time performance measurement and improve sales share and profit. With teams across the Americas Europe and APAC we offer a career with real impact endless growth opportunities and the support you need to be the best you can be.

Opportunity

As Director of Engineering you will play a key leadership role guiding teams building advertising bidding algorithms that perform millions of bids daily and continuously optimize campaign performance. You will partner closely with Product Design Data and other functions to deliver robust scalable and innovative solutions for our customers. Youll help shape our engineering culture drive operational excellence and develop the next generation of technical leaders.

What youll do:

  • Lead and mentor multiple engineering teams responsible for core platform components ensuring a collaborative and high-performance culture.
  • Drive engineering execution and deliveryestablishing clear goals processes and best practices to ensure timely high-quality product releases.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional leaders (Product Design Data QA) to align technical execution with business goals and customer needs.
  • Guide architectural and technical decisions to ensure our platforms are reliable scalable secure and cost-effective.
  • Promote engineering excellence through code reviews design reviews and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and learning.
  • Attract hire and develop top engineering talent with a focus on building a diverse and inclusive team.
  • Support operational excellence by driving incident management technical debt remediation and platform reliability initiatives.
  • Represent engineering in strategic planning roadmap discussions and executive forums as needed.

Who you are:

  • Experienced engineering leader with 7 years in software engineering roles and 3 years managing engineering teams (including managers and senior/staff engineers) in a SaaS ecommerce or tech-driven environment.
  • Strong technical background in web-based platforms and data-intensive systems; hands-on experience with Python Django Flask ReactJS Airflow and cloud platforms (GCP AWS or Azure) is a plus.
  • Proven track record of building scaling and operating high-availability data-driven products.
  • Excellent collaborator and communicator able to work across teams and functions and clearly articulate technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
  • Passionate about people development with a history of mentoring and growing engineers and technical leaders.
  • Customer-focused and data-driven with a bias for action and a commitment to delivering business value.
  • Experienced in scaling systems that ingest and process large volumes of data.
  • Committed to fostering an inclusive high-performance engineering culture.

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Flywheel Commerce Network is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate including but not limited to skill set depth of experience certifications and specific work location.

Salary Range

$200000 - $200000 CAD

Working at Flywheel

We are proud to offer all Flywheelers a competitive rewards package and unparalleled career growth opportunities and a supportive fun and engaging culture.
  • We have office hubs across the globe where team members can go to feel productive inspired and connected to others - team members go into Hub Offices 3x a week
  • Flexible vacation time
  • Great learning and development opportunities
  • Benefits that help you live your best life
  • Parental leave and benefits
  • Volunteering opportunities
  • If youre looking to connect with teammates on a topic of inclusion and identity chances are theres an ERG for that.
  • So you know: The hired candidate will be required to complete a background check
  • Learn more about us here: Life at Flywheel

The Interview Process:

Every role starts the same an introductory call with someone from our Talent Acquisition team. We will be looking for company and values-fit as well as your professional experience; there may be some technical role-specific questions during this call.
Every role is different after the initial call but you can expect to meet several people from the team 1:1 and there might be further skill assessments in the form of a Take Home Assignment/Case Study Presentation or Pair Programming/Live Coding exercise depending on the your initial call we will walk you through exactly what to expect the process to be.

Inclusive Workforce

Flywheel Commerce Networks goal is to create a culture where all individuals of all backgrounds feel comfortable in bringing their authentic selves to work. We want all people to feel included and empowered to contribute fully to our vision and goals. Flywheel Commerce Network is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. All applicants will receive fair consideration for employment. We do not discriminate based upon race color religion sex sexual orientation age marital status gender identity national origin disability or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.

If you have any accessibility requirements that would make you more comfortable during the application and interview process please let us know at so that we can support you.

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We leverage AI technology to streamline our hiring workflow though all candidate decisions are made by our Talent Acquisition Team
IMPORTANT ALERT:Please beware of fraudulent job communications from individuals falsely claiming to be from Flywheel. Weve identified fraudulent activity through social media and messaging services purporting to be from Flywheel requesting payments for job- and recruitment-related expenses. Flywheel never asks candidates for personal information such as bank account data or tax IDs nor payments via social media or chat-based applications. Report suspected fraud to local authorities immediately. To learn more clickhere.
Please notewe do not accept unsolicited resumes from 3rd party Recruitment Firms.
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About FlywheelFlywheels suite of digital commerce solutions accelerate growth across all major digital marketplaces for the worlds leading brands. We give clients access to near real-time performance measurement and improve sales share and profit. With teams across the Americas Europe and APAC we of...
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Key Skills

  • Go
  • Lean
  • Management Experience
  • React
  • Node.js
  • Operations Management
  • Project Management
  • Research & Development
  • Software Development
  • Team Management
  • GraphQL
  • Leadership Experience

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