10+ years of experience in building complex software systems
Experience as a Staff, Principal, or lead engineer with architectural ownership
Proven track record with AI coding agents and agentic systems
Experience shipping live products in early-stage, venture-backed environments
Strong communication skills for collaboration with the Founder and team
Responsibilities
Own the architecture and technical roadmap for the platform
Lead hands-on on complex technical challenges alongside senior engineers
Design and manage the AI-native development system
Translate product and partner priorities into actionable technical plans
Grow and develop a senior engineering team with high standards
Represent the company in technical discussions and reviews
Benefits
Competitive salary and equity
Group Retirement Savings Plan matching
Health, dental, and vision coverage with a wellness spending account
Generous time off
Access to leading AI tools and platforms
Full Job Description
About the Role
As Technical Director, you will own the technical direction of Parallelz and lead a senior engineering team. You will work closely with the CEO and product leadership to turn priorities into architecture. You will stay close to the code: setting the design for the hardest problems, reviewing the work that matters, and building the agent-driven engineering system the team ships through.
This role suits a builder who has grown into leadership and still designs, writes and reviews software every day.
We value in-person collaboration. This role is based in our downtown Toronto office three or more days per week.
What You'll Do
Own the architecture and technical roadmap across our platform, balancing performance, reliability and cost as usage grows.
Lead hands-on on the hardest technical problems, working alongside senior engineers from design through production.
Design and run our AI-native development system: the agent workflows, guardrails and quality gates that take work from ticket to production.
Turn product and partner priorities into clear technical plans, and own delivery of the platform behind our live products and host integrations.
Grow a senior team with high standards for craft and AI-native work, and lead hiring and development for your reports.
Represent Parallelz technically with partners and across the wider group, including architecture reviews and technical due diligence.
Requirements
Must-haves:
10+ years building complex software, including time as a Staff, Principal or lead engineer with architectural ownership of a production system, and experience leading senior teams.
Deep daily fluency with AI coding agents and agentic systems, a track record of bringing those workflows to a whole team, and a clear view on how to verify their output.
A record of shipping live products in early-stage, venture-backed environments.
Depth in performance-critical, deeply technical systems.
Clear written and verbal communication, and comfort working directly with the Founder in a hybrid team.
Backgrounds we see this working well from include:
Deep-tech, infrastructure or developer platform companies.
Gaming, ad tech or consumer platform companies.
Early-stage, zero-to-one experience as a founder or early technical leader, taking a product from idea to live users.
Benefits
Competitive salary and equity
Group Retirement Savings Plan matching
Health, dental and vision coverage, including a Health and Wellness spending account
