VP of Engineering - Canada - bankjoy

🌐 WHO WE ARE

Bankjoy is a Y Combinator and Bessemer Venture Partner backed FinTech startup. We are changing the way community banks and credit unions do business, enabling them to become tech-driven and digital first. Bankjoy provides modern digital banking products including mobile banking, online banking, online account opening, loan origination, and conversational AI.

Our mission is to revolutionize banking tech infrastructure by leading digital transformation at financial institutions — big and small.

THE ROLE

We are looking for a VP of Engineering to lead four of Bankjoy's eight engineering value streams and own the quality engineering framework across the entire engineering organization.

This is a hands-on leadership role at a critical inflection point in Bankjoy's growth. You will directly lead engineering teams across Banking Core Integration, Business Banking, Vendor Integration, and Client Analytics — while building the quality standards, automation framework, and release discipline that raise the bar for all eight value streams.

The ideal candidate has deep roots in quality engineering, has personally rescued or rebuilt automation programs in multi-platform environments, and has the organizational credibility to drive a shift from manual-heavy to automation-first quality culture. You have led engineering managers and senior ICs, partnered closely with technical support and release operations, and know what it takes to deliver reliable software to regulated financial institutions.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Engineering Leadership

• Lead four value streams — Banking Core Integration, Business Banking, Vendor Integration, and Account Acquisition — owning delivery, velocity, and technical excellence across each
• Manage and develop engineering managers, tech leads, and a Principal Engineer, building a high-performing organization that uses AI-assisted development as a core practice
• Provide hands-on technical leadership by partnering with tech leads on solution design, architectural reviews, production incident management, and complex troubleshooting, while remaining close enough to the systems to guide critical engineering decisions.
• Partner closely with the VP of Platform Engineering on cross-cutting initiatives including AI coding adoption, release coordination, architectural standards and DevOps.
• Drive quarterly engineering OKRs focused on AI productivity, code quality, and delivery velocity
• Participate in senior leadership alongside the COO, VP of Platform Engineering, and product leadership

Quality Framework — Entire Engineering Organization

• Design and implement Bankjoy's engineering quality framework across all eight value streams — setting standards for unit testing, integration testing, automated regression, and release readiness