Technical Director owning architecture, technical direction, and senior engineering leadership for Parallelz’s AI-native mobile application delivery platform. Hybrid role based in downtown Toronto.
Responsibilities
Own the architecture and technical roadmap across the platform, balancing performance, reliability and cost as usage grows
Lead hands-on on the hardest technical problems, working alongside senior engineers from design through production
Design and run the AI-native development system, including agent workflows, guardrails and quality gates from ticket to production
Turn product and partner priorities into clear technical plans and own delivery of the platform behind live products and host integrations
Grow a senior team with high standards for craft and AI-native work, and lead hiring and development for reports
Represent Parallelz technically with partners and across the wider group, including architecture reviews and technical due diligence
Requirements
10+ years building complex software, including time as a Staff, Principal or lead engineer with architectural ownership of a production system, and experience leading senior teams
Deep daily fluency with AI coding agents and agentic systems, a track record of bringing those workflows to a whole team, and a clear view on how to verify their output
A record of shipping live products in early-stage, venture-backed environments
Depth in performance-critical, deeply technical systems
Clear written and verbal communication, and comfort working directly with the Founder in a hybrid team
Background in deep-tech, infrastructure or developer platform companies, gaming, ad tech or consumer platform companies, or early-stage, zero-to-one experience as a founder or early technical leader
Benefits
Competitive salary and equity
Group Retirement Savings Plan matching
Health, dental and vision coverage, including a Health and Wellness spending account
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