# VP of Systems Engineering - Canada

Hiring organization: [BackJoy](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/backjoy)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/7482e6fa-8750-4e8d-868c-e4994bd1fe32

Listed on BackJoy's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Seniority: VP
- Location: Canada, Usa
- Remote: yes

## Summary

Lead Bankjoy's Release Management, Quality Engineering, and DevOps functions as a hands-on VP, building automation-first testing frameworks and release discipline across a Microsoft .NET and Azure cloud-native platform serving regulated financial institutions. This role suits engineering leaders with deep QA modernization experience who can drive cultural and technical shifts toward measurable quality practices and reliable delivery.

_Our summary, not BackJoy's wording._

## Skills named

Angular, Appium, Azure DevOps, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), CI/CD, Cypress, Helm, Infrastructure as Code, Kotlin, Kubernetes, Microsoft Azure, Playwright, Swift, Terraform

## Required

- 10+ years of engineering experience
- At least 4 years in engineering leadership managing QA, DevOps, platform engineering, release engineering, or SRE
- Deep quality engineering background with hands-on automation framework building or modernization
- Demonstrated success transitioning from manual-heavy QA to automation-first practices
- Experience building automation across web, APIs, and native mobile applications
- Experience implementing release gates and go/no-go decision processes
- Hands-on experience with modern automation technologies like Playwright, Cypress, Appium, or Maestro
- Strong technical background in Microsoft .NET and Azure environments
- Experience operating cloud-native applications using Kubernetes, preferably AKS
- Working knowledge of Helm, containerized delivery, and infrastructure automation
- Strong CI/CD and release automation experience, preferably Azure DevOps
- Strong understanding of Agile development practices
- Background in platform reliability, production incident response, and root-cause analysis
- Technical depth to engage in solution design and architecture discussions
- Cross-functional credibility and excellent communication skills

## Nice to have

- Fintech, core banking, or digital banking platform experience
- Familiarity with credit union or community bank client environments
- Knowledge of Angular, Swift, or Kotlin development environments
- Infrastructure as Code experience such as Terraform
- Broader Azure services experience
- SOC 2 Type II, PCI DSS, or similar regulatory compliance experience
- Experience managing QA teams through manual-to-quality-engineering transition
- Experience building or scaling SRE or Platform Engineering functions
- Experience establishing DORA metrics, quality scorecards, or engineering reliability dashboards
- Experience driving AI-assisted coding or testing adoption at team scale

Apply on BackJoy's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/bankjoy/cf928059-852e-488a-a536-3d772cf1a9ee/application