About the Role
This role owns the end-to-end engineering function and platform direction for a high-scale physical operations platform used across large logistics yard environments. The platform integrates cameras, sensors, AI pipelines, and enterprise systems into a single operational system that functions as mission-critical infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Own technical direction across the full stack, including gate automation systems, site configuration and multi-tenant workflows, integrations with enterprise logistics systems (TMS/WMS), data architecture and event pipelines, operator-facing applications and console systems, and AI pipelines for video and sensor stream processing.
- Make architectural decisions that are expected to scale over multiple years.
- Build predictable delivery and planning systems.
- Establish clear ownership across teams.
- Improve risk management and delivery consistency.
- Reduce reliance on hero-based execution.
- Lead and develop engineering managers and senior engineers.
- Strengthen organizational structure and accountability.
- Hire and scale the next phase of the engineering team.
- Maintain technical credibility within the leadership layer.
- Embed AI tools into the development lifecycle as a core operating model.
- Define standards for usage, review, and governance of AI tools.
- Measure impact of AI tools on delivery speed, quality, and throughput.
- Evolve AI workflows beyond experimental usage into systematic adoption.
- Own uptime, observability, incident response, and operational readiness.
- Ensure system resilience across distributed, real-world environments.
- Establish reliability as a core engineering discipline.
- Support rapid growth in customers, sites, and event volume.
- Manage increasing system complexity and integration load.
- Account for hybrid cloud and customer-hosted infrastructure environments.
- Connect engineering execution to product adoption, implementation velocity, operational cost and margin, and customer retention and reliability outcomes.
Requirements
- 10+ years in software engineering.
- 5+ years in engineering leadership roles managing managers or senior engineers.
- Progression from developer to engineering management to senior leadership.
- Experience building and operating a recurring revenue product platform (B2B SaaS or equivalent).
- Strong cloud architecture experience (AWS, GCP, or equivalent).
- Experience with distributed systems and production-scale services.
- Demonstrated use of AI tools in a team-based engineering environment.
- Experience operating production systems where uptime and reliability are critical.
- Track record of scaling teams beyond hero-based execution models.
Skills
- Scaling complex distributed systems
- Identifying risks across architecture, integrations, and teams
- Improving engineering velocity using AI tools
- Removing dependency on key individuals through system design
- Balancing speed with predictability in execution
- Linking engineering decisions to business outcomes
- Cloud architecture (AWS, GCP, or equivalent)
- Distributed systems
- Production-scale services
- AI tools in a team-based engineering environment
- Production systems operation
- Uptime and reliability
- Video streaming or real-time media systems (WebRTC, RTSP, HLS)
- Computer vision systems in production environments
- Hybrid cloud and on-prem infrastructure environments
- Logistics, IoT, security, or industrial workflow systems
Location
- Greater Toronto Area
- Mississauga
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 10+ years in software engineering
- 5+ years in engineering leadership roles
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive senior engineering package including base, bonus, and equity
About the Company
- Our client operates a high-scale physical operations platform used across large logistics yard environments in North America.
- The system processes millions of operational events monthly and integrates cameras, sensors, AI pipelines, and enterprise systems (TMS/WMS) into a single operational platform.
- The platform functions as mission-critical infrastructure for gate automation, yard operations, and real-time decisioning across distributed sites.
