Klass Capital

VP, Engineering

Klass Capital

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Toronto • 🇨🇦 Canada

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

CloudDockerGrafanaJenkinsMicroservicesPrometheusPythonReactSDLC

About the role

  • Operate and evolve the platform: Keep the current platform dependable for enterprise customers while creating improvements (AI-native capabilities, agentic workflows, Model Gateway, Evaluation/Safety) safely and predictably.
  • Standardize developer experience: Stand up CDEs and paved roads (Backstage/IDP) with policy-as-code and “build once, promote” pipelines; enforce SBOM/SLSA/SCA/DAST by default.
  • Ship on a cadence: Establish release trains and program increments; manage scope/date/quality trade-offs; maintain 90%+ on-time delivery with executive visibility.
  • Engineer for reliability: Define tenant-level SLOs, wire observability (Prometheus/Grafana/Datadog), and drive MTTR down via runbooks, previews, and progressive delivery.
  • Make AI pragmatic: Integrate AI-assisted developer workflows and agentic automations where they create measurable leverage; measure outcomes vs. hype.
  • Own cost behavior: Embed FinOps (GPU/AI quotas, cost per env/pipeline) and deliver unit-cost reduction without trading off reliability.
  • Collaborate: Shape epics and value metrics with Product, Security, Operations, Support and Customer Success teams.

Requirements

  • A minimum of 10+ years of experience leading product/platform engineering teams for enterprise software (B2B); you’ve shipped and run mission-critical systems at scale.
  • Depth of knowledge, background and experience in SRE/SLOs, CI/CD, secure SDLC/DevSecOps, and distributed teams.
  • You have experience leading engineering and development teams. You are a player-coach. You have experience setting standards, reviewing designs/PRs, and rolling up your sleeves to unblock.
  • You are a hands-on leader who has experience working in a fast paced start-up or scale up environment
  • Experience scaling from zero-to-one and one-to-many products/platforms - developing a platform and industrializing it
  • Familiarity with regulated enterprise environments
  • Proficient in cloud-first environments, serverless, microservices, containers (Docker) and modern development toolchains (Git, GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins, JFrog, SonarQube)
  • Experience with Python and React is a strong asset
  • Strong record of designing, building and integrating REST APIs
  • Skilled in leading end-to-end SDLC, including sprint/release planning
  • Demonstrated architecture/design leadership and operational troubleshooting in production environments
  • Passion for technical leadership, mentoring, and leveraging AI-assisted development
  • You have strong communication skills
  • Bachelor’s in Computer Science/Engineering, or equivalent experience
Benefits
  • Competitive annual base salary plus an annual performance bonus
  • Extended health/dental benefits plan
  • Learning budget for professional development
  • Flexible/Hybrid work model

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
SRESLOsCI/CDsecure SDLCDevSecOpscloud-first environmentsserverlessmicroservicesREST APIsPython
Soft skills
leadershipmentoringcommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvingdesign reviewplayer-coachoperational troubleshootingtechnical leadershipagile methodology