Senior ELM – Developer Productivity

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About the role

  • Engineering leader transforming developer productivity and release engineering at Index Exchange, a global advertising supply-side platform. Architecting gated software delivery and leading distributed teams.

Responsibilities

  • Own architecture and delivery of Developer Experience and Release Engineering
  • Elevate Developer Experience and Release Engineering to mature, industry-leading practices
  • Architect deterministic and agent-evaluated gates across Define, Build, Verify, Release, and Operate states
  • Implement policy-as-code enforcement, contract testing, mutation scoring, SLO-driven progressive delivery, error budgets, and automated rollbacks
  • Partner with Quality & Delivery engineering leaders to architect and sequence the gated SDLC roadmap
  • Assess Developer Experience and release practices, tooling, and workflows to identify friction, gaps, and opportunities
  • Translate findings into prioritized, actionable plans
  • Foster collaboration across Engineering and establish Developer Experience and Release Engineering as first-class capabilities
  • Own planning, execution, and delivery outcomes
  • Apply governance, standards, and policy-as-code practices to centralize tooling, pipelines, and enablement functions
  • Use DORA/SPACE-aligned delivery and quality metrics to drive continuous improvement
  • Manage delivery risk, release risk, and cross-team dependencies
  • Drive adoption of new standards and tooling across teams
  • Communicate findings, recommendations, plans, and progress to technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership
  • Recruit, onboard, and develop engineers across Toronto and Bengaluru
  • Set expectations, provide feedback, and manage performance and career growth
  • Foster an inclusive team culture across time zones and regions

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
  • 12+ years of experience in commercial software development environments
  • 5+ years of engineering management experience leading delivery-focused teams
  • Applied, hands-on experience architecting policy-as-code enforcement and SLO-driven progressive delivery, including contract-broker deploy gates, error-budget-based release throttling, and automated rollbacks
  • Experience architecting or directing deterministic and agent-evaluated automated gates within a software delivery pipeline
  • Experience engaging stakeholders and conducting discovery or assessment work to evaluate current-state practices and identify gaps
  • Strong analytical and synthesis skills, with the ability to translate ambiguous inputs into clear problem statements and actionable plans
  • Demonstrated success leading globally distributed teams across multiple time zones
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to operate effectively in a matrixed organization, partnering with leaders across the organization

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans for you and your dependents
  • Paid time off, health days, and personal obligation days
  • Flexible work schedules
  • Competitive retirement matching plans
  • Equity packages
  • Generous parental leave available to birthing, non-birthing, and adoptive parents
  • Annual well-being allowance
  • Fitness discounts and group wellness activities
  • Commuter benefits and discounts, where available
  • Employee assistance program
  • Mental health first aid program
  • One day of volunteer time off per year
  • Donation-matching program
  • Monthly town halls and regular community-led team events
  • Multiple resources and programming to support continuous learning
  • Diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

SDLC

Location requirements

HybridTorontoCanada

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