Director, Software Development

Neo Financial
Calgary
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Executive & General ManagementExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Leadership","Mentoring","Communication","Performance management","Team building"]

Senior leadership role overseeing Lending technology, taking ownership of multiple engineering teams and product areas within a fast-growing fintech platform. Builds and executes cross-functional strategy, drives timely software delivery, and mentors managers and engineers to deliver high-impact lending products (Credit Card, Mortgage, Collections, Adjudication) from Calgary-based teams.

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Neo Financial
Neo Financial
10 months ago

Director, Software Development

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Job Summary

Senior leadership role overseeing Lending technology, taking ownership of multiple engineering teams and product areas within a fast-growing fintech platform. Builds and executes cross-functional strategy, drives timely software delivery, and mentors managers and engineers to deliver high-impact lending products (Credit Card, Mortgage, Collections, Adjudication) from Calgary-based teams.
Location: Calgary
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Executive & General Management
Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Be accountable and involved in timely, quality software delivery: from planning and estimation to testing and releasing. Make sure we’re clearly setting and hitting milestones and deadlines.
  • •Manage team capacity against delivery goals. Ensure the right levels of staffing and succession planning; execute weekly on recruiting, interviewing, and hiring tactics.
  • •Be responsible for the resilient operation of software including gathering metrics, alerting, bug count, uptime and security, but also effective on-call or incident response.
  • •Ensure we make the best technology and process decisions. Hold teams to best-practices and standards while involving experts and encouraging proposals to improve.
  • •Create transparency; maintain clear executive summaries for all stakeholders and representing all projects and your team status with documentation and data.

Pay and Benefits

Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •At least 5 years of leadership experience on software development teams.
  • •At least 3 years leadership experience while managing through team leads or managers on software development teams.
  • •Prior hands-on experience in a top technical role – such as Senior Software Developer.
  • •Experience as a leader running (not just building) production software systems.
  • •Located in (or willing to quickly relocate to) Calgary AB.
Experience:5+ yearsFintechFinanceTechnology
Skills:LeadershipMentoringCommunicationPerformance managementTeam building

Company Brief

Neo Financial
Neo Financial is a Canadian fintech offering credit cards, savings and spending accounts, investing, mortgages, and merchant loyalty/embedded finance solutions through partnerships with regulated banks and major retailers.
Industry: Neobanking
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: USD 500M to 1B
Funding: Series D
Headquarters: Calgary, Canada
Founded: 2019
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