The Director of Engineering will lead a growing team, oversee technical architecture, improve delivery processes, and ensure engineering excellence. Key responsibilities include team leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and leveraging AI tools for development.
About API
Accommodations Plus International (API) is the global leader in crew accommodation and travel logistics, powering over 18 million crew room nights each year for 100+ airlines and travel operators worldwide. Our Global reach ensures that airline crews are rested, transported, and connected so global aviation runs on time.
Position Overview:
We’re hiring an Engineering Director to lead a team of 10–20 engineers building scalable, production-grade systems. This is a newly created role reporting to the SVP of Engineering. It combines hands-on technical leadership with strategic oversight—you’ll set direction, elevate engineering standards, and drive delivery.
This is a hybrid role based in our Markham, Ontario office.
Success in this Role
What You’ll Do
Essential Functions: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Key responsibilities
Minimum Qualifications
Good faith annual salary range for this position is $190,000 to $200,000 CAD and is commensurate with experience and location.
Accommodations Plus International (API) is the global leader in crew accommodation and travel logistics, powering over 18 million crew room nights each year for 100+ airlines and travel operators worldwide. Our Global reach ensures that airline crews are rested, transported, and connected so global aviation runs on time.
Position Overview:
We’re hiring an Engineering Director to lead a team of 10–20 engineers building scalable, production-grade systems. This is a newly created role reporting to the SVP of Engineering. It combines hands-on technical leadership with strategic oversight—you’ll set direction, elevate engineering standards, and drive delivery.
This is a hybrid role based in our Markham, Ontario office.
Success in this Role
- Delivery: the team consistently ships on commitments against the product roadmap
- Modernization: meaningful progress moving the platform off legacy patterns toward a modern, cloud-native architecture
- Velocity: measurable increase in delivery speed (cycle time, deploy frequency, lead time for change)
- Engineering Excellence: best practices instilled across the team, including code review, testing, CI/CD, observability, and on-call discipline
What You’ll Do
Essential Functions: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Key responsibilities
- Leadership & Team Building: Lead and grow a team of 10 to 20 engineers across North America and India, fostering a high performance collaborative culture across time zones.
- Technical Leadership: Own architecture and system design across the stack. Drive delivery of Brcomplex, distributed systems on AWS. Stay close enough to the code to make sharp technical calls and mentor engineers on craft.
- Cross-Functional Impact: Partner with product and business leaders to translate strategy into technical roadmap. Drive alignment across teams and influence technical strategy.
- Delivery & Execution: Own delivery against the product and platform roadmap. Improve engineering velocity through process, tooling and best practice.
- Engineering Excellence: Raise the bar on code quality, testing, and operational excellence. Build strong observability and incident response practice. Leverage modern AI tools to improve productivity and quality.
Minimum Qualifications
- At least 7 years of software development experience, with 3+ years leading a team. This includes hiring, performance management, and developing senior engineers
- Deep technical background in Java and Angular (or a comparable modern frontend framework such as React or Vue)
- Solid experience with Oracle, Postgres, or similar relational databases, including schema design, performance tuning, and the hard parts
- Working experience with NoSQL databases (e.g. DynamoDB, MongoDB, Cassandra) and a clear sense of when to reach for them
- Production AWS experience across compute, networking, and data services
- Ability to comprehend and contribute to systems design, including scalability, reliability, trade-offs, and failure modes
- Demonstrable use of AI tools in the software development lifecycle, such as coding assistants, agentic workflows, code review, and test generation. You should be able to show concretely how you and your teams ship faster and better with AI
- Experience modernizing legacy Java systems, multi-region AWS deployments.
- BSc/BA in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- Experience modernizing legacy Java systems, multi-region AWS deployments.
- 3+ years of leadership experience
- RRSP with employer matching
- Paid Time Off
- Extended health insurance, LTD, life insurance, and Employee Assistance Program
- High-growth oriented environment with results-driven team
- Opportunity to create high-impact change for real users worldwide
Good faith annual salary range for this position is $190,000 to $200,000 CAD and is commensurate with experience and location.
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