Bankjoy

Bankjoy

VP of Engineering

Canada · Vp

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 55 days ago
SwiftKotlinAngulariOSAndroidCI/CDPlatform EngineeringIncident ResponseComplianceAgileOKRsCustomer SupportCypressPlaywrightAppiumLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration

About the role

  • This is a hands-on leadership role at a critical inflection point in Bankjoy's growth.

Responsibilities

  • Lead four value streams - Banking Core Integration, Business Banking, Vendor Integration, and Account Acquisition - owning delivery, velocity, and technical excellence across each
  • Manage and develop engineering managers, tech leads, and a Principal Engineer, building a high-performing organization that uses AI-assisted development as a core practice
  • Provide hands-on technical leadership by partnering with tech leads on solution design, architectural reviews, production incident management, and complex troubleshooting, while remaining close enough to the systems to guide critical engineering decisions.
  • Partner closely with the VP of Platform Engineering on cross-cutting initiatives including AI coding adoption, release coordination, architectural standards and DevOps.
  • Drive quarterly engineering OKRs focused on AI productivity, code quality, and delivery velocity
  • Design and implement Bankjoy's engineering quality framework across all eight value streams - setting standards for unit testing, integration testing, automated regression, and release readiness
  • Own a modern multi-platform automation framework covering Angular, Swift, and Kotlin
  • Lead and develop a QA organization of eight manual QA engineers and two dedicated automation QA engineers, working with the QA manager to elevate the team toward a quality engineering model
  • Partner with the Release Manager to implement a structured release gate process - mid-cycle readiness reviews and formal go/no-go decisions with explicit sign-offs from engineering, QA, and product
  • Work closely with Technical Support to close the feedback loop between production issues and engineering prioritization - ensuring client-impacting defects drive process changes, not just fixes

Requirements

  • 10+ years of engineering experience with at least 4 years in engineering leadership, managing engineering managers and senior individual contributors
  • Deep background in quality engineering - you have personally built or rebuilt automation frameworks, not just overseen them from a distance
  • Proven experience migrating automation frameworks in a multi-platform environment (web and native mobile - iOS and Android)
  • Experience implementing release gate processes and enforcing go/no-go decisions under schedule pressure - you have called a no-go and held the line
  • Hands-on experience with modern automation tooling - Playwright, Cypress, Appium, Maestro, or equivalent
  • familiarity with Angular, Swift, and Kotlin environments is a strong advantage
  • Experience driving AI coding tool adoption across engineering teams - changed culture and productivity, not just personal usage
  • Ability to balance strategic leadership with operational execution, remaining close enough to systems and engineering workflows to make informed technical and delivery decisions in high-pressure environments
  • Excellent communication and organizational influence skills - you can hold senior stakeholders accountable to quality standards without relying on hierarchy

Nice to have

  • Experience in fintech, core banking, or digital banking platforms
  • Familiarity with credit union or community bank client environments
  • Experience with SOC 2 Type II, PCI DSS, or similar regulatory compliance contexts
  • Background working with multi-platform products serving both financial institutions and end consumers
  • Experience managing QA teams through a transition from manual QA to quality engineering roles
  • A fast-paced and collaborative environment
  • Competitive compensation
  • End of year shutdown

Compensation

  • Competitive compensation

Benefits

  • Define and enforce quality gates - explicit go/no-go release criteria that every value stream must meet, including automated coverage thresholds, defect standards, and QE sign-off
  • Build a quality dashboard visible to engineering and leadership - automation coverage, open defect counts, regression completion rates - so release readiness is transparent, not judgment-based
  • Ensure AI tools are used in QA as well as development - AI-assisted test generation, automated test maintenance, and prompt-driven regression coverage

Company info

  • 🌐 WHO WE ARE
  • Bankjoy is a Y Combinator and Bessemer Venture Partner backed FinTech startup.
  • We are changing the way community banks and credit unions do business, enabling them to become tech-driven and digital first.
  • Bankjoy provides modern digital banking products including mobile banking, online banking, online account opening, loan origination, and conversational AI.
  • Our mission is to revolutionize banking tech infrastructure by leading digital transformation at financial institutions - big and small.
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