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Parallelz

Head of Engineering

Parallelz

Head of Engineering at Parallelz leading technical strategy to build a next-gen mobile app platform. Building a senior engineering team and collaborating with the CEO on product architecture.

Posted 5/26/2026full-timeToronto • 🇨🇦 CanadaLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AndroidAWSCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformLinux

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Own the architectural design and technical roadmap end-to-end across the product and our cloud-based infrastructure, partnering closely with the CEO to translate business and product priorities into clear technical direction while ensuring scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
  • Lead and grow a small, senior team of engineers working across graphics (WebGL, WebGPU, OpenGL ES), Android/Linux internals, browser engines, network programming, WASM, WebRTC, DevOps, and cloud.
  • Recruit, hire, and develop a world-class, mission-driven technical team, with a high bar for AI-native working style as a baseline expectation, not a bonus.
  • Champion and operationalize an AI-native engineering culture: integrate agentic and AI tooling into design, code, review, testing, debugging, and ops; define the patterns, guardrails, and quality bars that let the team move at AI-accelerated velocity without losing rigor.
  • Provide hands-on technical guidance to senior ICs, going deep with the team when problems warrant it.
  • Facilitate collaboration and information sharing across a hybrid team, with a strong bias toward written, asynchronous, AI-leveraged workflows.
  • Promote a culture of first-principles problem-solving where engineers understand every layer of the systems they touch.
  • Own the candidate and employee lifecycle for direct reports: hiring, onboarding, goal-setting, performance management, and career development.

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • **Must Haves:**
  • Prior experience in a senior engineering leadership role (VP of Engineering, Head of Engineering, Director of Engineering, Engineering Manager, Technical Director), or a Principal/Staff IC role with proven architectural ownership of a complex software product.
  • Deep, daily fluency with AI coding agents, LLM tooling, and agentic systems, with a clear point of view on where they help, where they fail, and how to verify their output.
  • Track record of driving team-level adoption of AI-native workflows, not just personal use.
  • Experience in a zero-to-one, venture-backed startup environment.
  • A passion for invention and a track record of building innovative emerging technologies with strong R&D foundations.
  • Track record of shipping live products under rapid iterative development.
  • Strong believer in smaller, more senior, highly collaborative teams enabled by aggressive automation and AI leverage.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to operate in a hybrid environment.
  • **Nice to Haves:**
  • Hands-on background or leadership experience in deeply technical, performance-critical software: graphics programming (WebGL, WebGPU, OpenGL ES, Vulkan, game/browser engines), low-level systems (C/C++, AOSP/Android, Linux internals), WASM, WebRTC, or real-time streaming.
  • Experience managing and scaling cloud-based production infrastructure on AWS and/or GCP, alongside familiarity with modern DevOps practices.
  • Background in advanced compression, video encoding, AdTech, or Mobile SDK ecosystems.
  • Technical product management experience.
  • Graduate work and/or a research background in a related area.

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Group Retirement Savings Plan matching and participation
  • Comprehensive benefits package (health, dental, vision), including Health and Wellness spending account
  • Generous time off policies
  • Access to leading AI tools and platforms

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Hard Skills & Tools
AI coding agentsLLM toolingagentic systemsgraphics programmingWebGLWebGPUOpenGL ESC/C++WASMWebRTC
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvingteam developmentasynchronous workflowsinnovationscalabilityreliabilitycost efficiency