Director of Platform Engineering

1 month ago


Toronto, Ontario, Canada WAVE Full time
About the Role

The Director of Platform Engineering is responsible for the end-to-end health of the shared infrastructure and platform on which Wave products are built. This role will drive operations and automation to accelerate product delivery, and ensure consistent and stable services.

Key Responsibilities
  • Mentor and grow a team of engineers and managers, fostering a collaborative, empathetic, and high-performing work environment.
  • Own observability, CI/CD, core infrastructure abstractions, and shared tooling.
  • Optimize and simplify platform tooling and enable ease of use of services (APIs) for developers.
  • Develop and drive the long-term strategic vision for platform engineering, ensuring the team is well-positioned to meet future challenges and opportunities.
  • Stay current on engineering best practices and trends, and lead the team in continuously refining strategies, processes, and tools to improve efficiency, reliability, and innovation within platform engineering.
Requirements
  • 5+ years of experience managing multiple engineering teams in a Cloud infrastructure environment (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud).
  • 10+ years of experience in software development with distributed production systems at scale.
  • Expertise building DevOps tooling and processes, with knowledge of site reliability, observability, and product engineering.
  • Expertise with back-end software engineering, REST APIs, microservices, data processing, SQL, and NoSQL database technologies.
  • Ability to facilitate technical decision-making, even outside your domain expertise.
  • Experience with modern software engineering processes such as Agile.
About Wave

At Wave, you're treated like the incredible human being you are. We believe that a diverse and inclusive culture creates the best workplace. We empower small business owners to manage their finances fearlessly, by offering the simplest, all-in-one financial management solution they can't live without.

We care about future you: you will stretch yourself and you will grow at Wave. You will also be supported on this journey with diverse learning experiences, educational allowances, mentorship, and so much more.

We support the full you: we make a serious investment in your health & wellness. When we think about benefits we think about body, mind, & soul and we take this stuff very seriously.

We take care of the fundamentals: fair compensation, all the office perks you'd want, and the various goodies you'd expect from a growing tech company.



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