Directeur(trice) de l'ingénierie

About nesto

nesto – a proud recipient of the Canadian Rocketship 2025 title. Recognized on the Deloitte Fast 50 list, nesto is evolving alongside Canada's top tech innovators. We are transforming a $2.1 trillion mortgage industry at lightning speed by building the future's mortgage ecosystem.

Build with the best

BUILD lending technologies with the country's top developers, AI engineers, and mortgage experts. Grow within a modern tech stack and a development framework designed to unleash your full potential and accelerate your career.

Why join us

• Hyper-growth: Ranked on the Deloitte Fast 50 list for the 3rd consecutive year.
• Tech Credibility: Named Canadian Rocketship 2025 by TechTO.
• Industry Leader: Voted Lending Company of the Year (CLA) for the 4th consecutive year.
• Talent Magnet: Winner of CMP Top Mortgage Employer 2025.
• Trusted Technology: Powers Canada's largest financial institutions.
• Entrepreneurial Culture: Built on trust, speed, bold ambition, and an unwavering obsession with our customers.

Your role

As the Director of Engineering, you will provide high-level executive leadership focused on technical excellence, high availability, and the automation of complex financial processes.

• Strategic Leadership: Play a pivotal role in defining the technical vision and scaling the capabilities of our SaaS platform across the organization.
• Roadmap Management: Own the technical planning and strategic vision for your business domain, ensuring alignment with overall company objectives.
• Growth and Mentorship: Lead and grow an organization of over 30 engineers, directly manage multiple engineering managers, and foster a culture of high performance, accountability, and professional development.
• Operational Excellence: Oversee the development and operation of critical financial systems, ensuring strict transactional integrity, zero data loss, and real-time reconciliation.
• Reliability and SRE: Establish and enforce world-class Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices to achieve ultra-high availability and rapid incident resolution.
• Security and Compliance: Collaborate with security and compliance departments to ensure systems are audit-ready and security controls (e.g., encryption, access management) are strictly enforced.
• Executive Communication: Clearly communicate technical strategy, platform operational health, and risks to the VP of Engineering and other executive stakeholders.

The ideal candidate

• Leadership Experience: Proven experience leading an engineering organization of 30+ people, including strong expertise in managing managers.
• SaaS Expertise: Hands-on experience building and operating highly available SaaS platforms within FinTech or other highly regulated industries.
• Technical Acumen: Deep understanding of immutable data models, ledger systems, and financial reconciliation logic.
• Architectural Mastery: Demonstrated expertise in Event-Driven Architecture (EDA), including hands-on experience with message brokers (e.g., Kafka, Pub/Sub, SQS/SNS), event sourcing, and the CQRS pattern.
• Compliance Culture: Expertise in maintaining compliance standards (e.g., SOC 2, PCI DSS) by implementing technical controls directly within engineering processes.
• Reliability Focus: Strong experience in defining and meeting rigorous Service Level Objectives (SLOs), as well as managing Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity Plans (BCP).
• Influence: Exceptional communication skills, comfortable presenting complex technical data to leadership and influencing cross-functional partners.

What we offer

• Employee Mortgage Program: Exclusive preferential rates.
• Comprehensive Health Coverage: Top-tier extended coverage (health, dental, vision) with 100% drug coverage.
• Access to a Group RRSP Savings Plan with competitive company matching contributions.
• Telemedicine and Family Support (top-up programs for maternity/parental leave).
• Flexible Workplace: Fully remote or from one of our offices (Montreal, Quebec City, Toronto, etc.).

Why join us

Contribute to modernizing the Canadian mortgage industry.Certified B Corp company, highlighting our social and environmental commitment.We have won the CLA Mortgage Lender of the Year award in 2023, 2024, and 2025, recognizing our excellence in lending services.

Diversity and Inclusion

At nesto, we believe that creativity and collaboration are the result of a diverse team. We are committed to fostering a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, and strongly encourage women, people of color, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, and individuals with disabilities to apply. We are committed to creating an inclusive and welcoming work environment for all. This position is open to all candidates and can be occupied remotely from anywhere in Canada.Please note that as we serve clients located across Canada, bilingualism is essential for this role. You may be required to communicate in both French and English.

Key skills/competency

Director of Engineering, Technical Leadership, SaaS Platforms, FinTech, Event-Driven Architecture, Site Reliability Engineering, Financial Systems, Team Management, Strategic Planning, Compliance Management.