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VP of Systems Engineering - Canada

BackJoy

Canada, Usa · Remote · Management

Listed on BackJoy’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.

What this role is

Lead Bankjoy's Release Management, Quality Engineering, and DevOps functions as VP, building automation-first quality practices and platform reliability across a Microsoft .NET and Azure Kubernetes environment serving regulated financial institutions. This hands-on leadership role suits experienced engineering leaders with deep QA and DevOps expertise who can drive cultural shifts from manual testing toward systematic, measurable quality.

Our summary, not BackJoy’s wording. The full posting is on their site.

What they ask for

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 personal experience building or rebuilding automation frameworks
  • Proven success transitioning from manual QA to automation-first quality engineering
  • Experience building quality automation across web, APIs/services, and native mobile applications
  • Experience implementing release gates and go/no-go processes
  • Hands-on experience with modern automation technologies (Playwright, Cypress, Appium, Maestro, or comparable)
  • Strong technical background in Microsoft .NET and Azure environments
  • Experience operating cloud-native applications with Kubernetes, preferably AKS
  • Working knowledge of Helm, containerized application delivery, cloud infrastructure, and infrastructure automation
  • Strong CI/CD and release automation experience, preferably with Azure DevOps pipelines
  • Strong understanding of Agile software development practices
  • Strong background in platform reliability, production incident response, and root-cause analysis
  • Technical depth to engage in solution design, architecture discussions, and production troubleshooting
  • Experience driving AI-assisted coding or testing adoption at team level
  • Strong cross-functional credibility and communication skills

Nice to have

  • Experience in fintech, core banking, or digital banking platforms
  • Familiarity with credit union or community bank client environments
  • Familiarity with Angular, Swift, and Kotlin development environments
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform
  • Experience with broader Azure services for modern SaaS platforms
  • Experience with SOC 2 Type II, PCI DSS, or similar regulatory compliance
  • Experience managing QA teams through transition from manual to quality engineering roles
  • Experience building or scaling an SRE or Platform Engineering function
  • Experience establishing DORA metrics, quality scorecards, or engineering reliability dashboards

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