Head of Engineering

About the Client:

Our client delivers digital identity, income verification, and pre-qualification solutions tailored to automotive finance dealers and lenders. Its mobile identity verification platform helps combat fraud in vehicle financing through an intuitive smartphone application powered by advanced artificial intelligence, biometric authentication, and anti-fraud technology.

The Opportunity:

You will join as the first-ever Head of Engineering, as the bridge between the Founders and the Developer team.

This is a senior leadership seat you will join the executive team, partner directly with the CEO, and have end-to-end ownership of engineering strategy, team growth, technical vision, and delivery.

You will operate as a hands-on technical leader with a 40/60 split between strategic leadership and individual contribution setting the technical bar, unblocking the team, and diving into production code and complex problems when it matters.

You will put in place process and people best practices, and grow the Engineering team from 5 to 20+ in the near term.

You can commute to a downtown Toronto office at least once a week.

The Skills/Requirement Needed to Succeed:

You have 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 5 years in engineering leadership roles (Engineering Manager, Director, Head/VP of Engineering) within a B2B SaaS product company.

You have scaled engineering teams from small to mid-size (5 → 20+) in the past, building the hiring strategy, org design, and developing technical leads.

You have strong hands-on experience with TypeScript/Node.js/NestJS at your most recent role, and are comfortable doing a live Coding assignment within that framework. You've additionally used MongoDB, and have deep knowledge of the AWS ecosystem (ECS/Fargate, DynamoDB, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch).

Any experience working in fintech, payments, or regulated environments with a focus on compliance (SOC 2, PCI DSS, AML/KYC) will be strongly preferred.

Martyn Bassett Associates:

Martyn Bassett Associates is a team of recruiters solving the ambitious goals of startups and scale-ups by recruiting world-class sales, marketing, and product management talent who deliver growth and scale. We’ve helped over 1500 candidates land their next big opportunity at companies like Shopify, Extreme Networks, Wattpad, Loopio, Readdle, ClearCo, Workleap, Invicti, Resolve Pay, The Herjavec Group, GE Energy, GE Health, Enable, RBC Ventures, Unibuddy, Cognota, Thalmic Labs (now Google Glass), Eloqua (now Oracle Marketing Cloud) to name a few.