VP, Head of Engineering
Hybrid (Toronto, Ontario)$185k - $205kFull-timePosted 3mo ago
About the role
Head of Engineering responsible for evolving Fig from a single-product lender to a multi-product financial platform, shaping technology strategy, engineering culture, and platform architecture in a regulated fintech environment.
Responsibilities
- Lead Fig's engineering strategy, technical roadmap, and platform architecture as the company evolves from a single-product lender into a multi-product financial platform.
- Help bring Fig's next generation of financial products to market, partnering with internal teams and external development partners to drive execution from concept through launch.
- Partner with leadership to align technology decisions with business strategy, operational priorities, and long-term company growth.
- Build and lead a high-performing engineering organization with a culture of ownership, execution, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Guide key technical decisions across infrastructure, security, scalability, reliability, and engineering quality, balancing short-term delivery with long-term platform health.
- Lead internal engineering efforts and external development partners to ensure strong execution, accountability, and delivery quality across teams.
- Improve engineering workflows, tooling, automation, and AI-enabled processes to increase engineering effectiveness and leverage.
- Work cross-functionally with Product, Operations, Risk, Compliance, and CX to build scalable, secure, customer-centric systems for core lending and future product lines.
- Serve as a key technical voice in executive and board-level discussions related to technology strategy, operational risk, scalability, and company growth.
Qualifications
- Experience building, launching, and scaling products in fintech, lending, banking, payments, or similarly regulated industries.
- Strong technical judgment and experience guiding architecture and engineering decisions across complex systems and evolving platforms.
- Track record of balancing execution speed with scalability, reliability, security, and long-term maintainability.
- Experience leading teams through ambiguity and navigating evolving priorities, opportunities, and complex tradeoffs with confidence.
- Strong leadership and ability to build healthy, high-performing engineering cultures.
- Experience managing external vendors, development agencies, or distributed engineering teams and integrating them into broader engineering efforts.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with ability to influence across technical, operational, and business stakeholders.
- Pragmatic, hands-on mindset willingness to dive into problems directly when needed.
- Curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies with instincts for applying them to improve productivity and effectiveness.
- Strong systems thinking and bias toward simple, scalable, resilient solutions.
Skills
Required:Engineering leadershipArchitecture and systems designRegulated industry experience
Benefits
- Hybrid work environment: balance of remote and in-office (currently one day a week in Toronto).
- Competitive compensation: base salary range $185,000 - $205,000 plus annual incentive bonus.
- Retirement savings program with employer matching.
- Comprehensive benefits: medical, dental, and vision; health and wellness spending accounts.
- Generous vacation and wellness time.
- Parental leave top-up.
- Continuing education stipend for professional development.
Last updated Jul 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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