Vice President Of Software Engineering Jobs in Canada, Remote
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Top Benefits
About the role
- This role is for a high-impact engineering leader who has been in the trenches at fast-scaling startups — someone who has grown from individual contributor to leader and helped scale engineering orgs through multiple phases of growth
- Ideally, you’ve done it more than once
- As VP of Software Engineering, you’ll be responsible for building and maintaining a high-performing, scalable engineering organization across Product Development, Ops, and Technical Support
- This is a role for someone who’s hands-on enough to spot an issue in a pull request, and strategic enough to influence long-term roadmap, product vision, and cross-functional priorities
- You’ll partner closely with Product and Design to ship great software faster, with fewer surprises
- You’ll also work directly with customers and support our GTM motion, stepping in when technical insight is needed on strategic deals or customer challenges
- Lead Software Engineering within CoLab’s Product Development org
- Guide and grow our teams to improve quality, development speed and confidence
- Partner with Product to drive roadmap planning, resource allocation, and feasibility tradeoffs
- Ensure compliance with key standards (e.g. SOC 2, ISO) through a mature SDLC
- Set and manage operating metrics (e.g. uptime, velocity, quality, cost) that drive business value
- Help scale our team with world-class talent and build functions that support career growth across the team
- Collaborate across departments — from GTM to CS — to support technical enablement and customer success
- Join CoLab’s Senior Leadership Team and help shape company strategy across all areas of the business
Benefits
- Health and dental insurance (covered at 100% for the employee)
- Remote/Hybrid Work: Our main office location is in St. John’s, NL where we offer hybrid and remote opportunities
- Unlimited PTO- You’re a builder at heart — pragmatic, resourceful, and relentlessly focused on outcomes
- You’ve helped scale at least one startup through a period of fast growth (Series A → C or similar), and ideally done it more than once
- You’ve grown from IC to leadership, and know what it takes to help others do the same
- You’re low ego, high respect. People seek out your input not because of your title, but because you are good at what you do, genuinely helpful and motivating to work with
- 5+ years in engineering leadership roles, with experience managing managers
- Strong knowledge of AI solutions for software development and experience deploying AI coding solutions at scale
- Familiarity with building secure, compliant software in a regulated environment
- Experience with modern cloud tech stacks. Ours is: React, Python, GraphQL, Postgres, AWS
- Experience directly supporting customer conversations and technical sales
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Significant experience as a software developer, including on large-scale SaaS systems
- Proven ability to scale teams and processes during periods of high growth
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About CoLab Software
Your most critical product decisions are made everyday in design reviews.
But as products get more complex and teams become larger and more specialized, the design review process looks the same as it did 10-20 years ago.
So what happens?
-43% of design feedback is never documented or addressed -87% of engineering leaders say it takes hours or days to trace the rationale behind a single design decision -90% of companies have product launch delays due to late-stage design changes.
These problems won’t be solved by more meetings, better PLM workflows or increased pressure to keep slide decks and spreadsheets up-to-date. These are problems that require a completely new way for engineering teams to work together.
CoLab is a cloud based platform purpose built for fast, effective design review. Using CoLab, multiple engineers, designers, and other stakeholders can review designs together and build off one another's feedback.
CoLab makes it easy to review the right data (including CAD) with all the right people, capture useful feedback, and track issues through to action. CoLab pulls together design discussions previously lost in emails, spreadsheets, and notebooks into a single platform that integrates back into PLM. We call it a Design Engagement System.