Director, Software Development

• Partner with Product Management. Work in a true partnership with our product leaders to co-plan roadmap initiatives and engineering epics
• Understand and pursue our business, financial, and engineering-wide goals. A successful director can contextualize strategic company-wide goals into team goals, a plan, and a realistic timeline
• Manage team capacity against delivery goals. Ensure the right levels of staffing and succession planning
• execute weekly on recruiting and hiring tactics
• Proactively bring credible improvement initiatives forward to the VP and CTO: new technologies, industry trends, opportunities to improve processes or culture
• Accelerate our teams with aggressive, thoughtful adoption of AI into our SDLC
• Prioritize where your teams spend their time, and set the right pace to keep delivery on-time while maintaining delivery scope, quality and standards
• Assess and manage performance of teams and individuals to ensure we’re holding a high performance bar at all times - build a “best in Canada” team
• Ensure resilient operation of production systems focusing on low occurrence of incidents or outages
• Create transparency
• maintain clear executive summaries for all stakeholders
• Find and improve on ways to engage your team - we believe engagement is the most important priority in keeping high performance teams at their best
• Provide challenges and career development opportunities for your team and for solid performers
• align their growth with our top business needs
• Be hands-on with training and mentorship for both managers and senior engineers
• be confident and hands-on with onboarding new hires
• Ensure that developers work collaboratively - within teams and across teams. Provide the framework for collaboration rather than for “divide-and-conquer”
• Contextualize decisions and policies (e.g. from our People or Compliance teams) for teams to ensure we’re meeting obligations

• At least 5 years of leadership experience on software development teams, with direct management and project-management responsibilities (ideally including P&L responsibilities)
• History of hands-on product development experience in a top technical role - such as Senior Software Developer
• Experience as a leader operating (not just building) software systems in high-availability, high-security, scaled-up production environments
• Appetite to lead from the front, and excitement to participate daily in-person
• Located in (or willing to quickly relocate to) Calgary AB

All team members have a stake in Neo’s success and earn meaningful equity through stock options