Senior Director, Engineering

Join Affinity as we redefine how professionals manage and leverage their networks, transforming relationships into meaningful opportunities. You'll be part of a team focused on improving our core product and platform, making relationship intelligence indispensable through advanced data analytics. With our growing user base and expansion into new markets, we're more committed than ever to delivering relationship intelligence to professionals everywhere.

Your role and impact:

As the Sr. Director of Engineering at Affinity, you will report to the CTO and lead the development of our innovative CRM and Sourcing products. Your strategic vision will ensure we build strong foundations that drive outstanding customer outcomes. 

Key responsibilities:

• Shape Product Roadmap: Collaborate with product and design leaders to establish a compelling future vision for our product, crafting a strategic roadmap that seamlessly integrates product, design, and engineering.
• Lead Engineering Execution: Lead engineering execution, ensuring quality software and a delightful user experience through continuous, iterative development practices, while driving initiatives to refine our overall development approach and delivery processes.
• Develop Teams: Guide and develop a high-performing team through leadership, coaching, and mentoring, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement while ensuring inclusive development opportunities for all team members.
• Craft Technical Strategy: Drive and execute toward a technical strategy that aligns with Affinity’s business and product needs, focusing on delivering high quality, great usability, and fast performance across applications and APIs.

Qualifications

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every qualification. At Affinity, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role, but your past experience doesn’t perfectly align with the qualifications above, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Desired experience:

• B2B SaaS enterprise company experience, with a proven track record leading engineering within complex, customer-focused product environments.
• 8+ years of experience building scalable web applications with large volumes of data and rich visualizations.
• 8+ years in an engineering leadership role, with experience leading multiple teams through managers and team leads.
• You’re excited about practical applications of AI, both to enhance productivity internally, and to delight your customers.
• Experience developing, coaching and managing engineering leaders, such as Engineering Managers and Staff Engineers.
• Care personally about the people you work with, and about helping them to grow and develop in their careers, while also challenging them when necessary.
• You build talent density on your teams, from recruiting to investing in the growth of your team members.
• Balance thoughtfully between short-term business priorities and long-term investment and strategy.
• Take pride in delivering an exceptionally high-quality product, ensuring outstanding functionality, while maintaining the platform’s overall performance and reliability.
• You're excited to work collaboratively within engineering and across functional teams.
• Articulate, confident, and persuasive communication skills, coupled with the ability to listen and represent diverse perspectives.

Tech stack

Our platform is built with React and TypeScript on the front end, and with Ruby and PostgreSQL on the back end. Our infrastructure is hosted by AWS and runs on Kubernetes. 

How we work:

Our culture is a key part of how we operate as well as our hiring process:

• We iterate quickly. As such, you must be comfortable embracing ambiguity, be able to cut through it, and deliver incremental value to our customers each sprint.
• We are candid, transparent, and speak our minds while simultaneously caring personally with each person we interact with. 
• We make data-driven decisions and make the best decision for the moment based on the information available.

Join us in enabling every professional on the planet to succeed by harnessing the power of their relationships.

If you’d want to learn more about our values click here.

What you’ll enjoy at Affinity:

• We live our values: As owners, we take pride in everything we do. We embrace a growth mindset, engage in respectful candor, act as playmakers, and "taste the soup" by diving deep into experiences to create the best outcomes for our colleagues and clients.
• Health Benefits: We cover both you and your dependents' extended health benefit premiums and offer flexible personal & sick days to support your well-being.
• Retirement Planning: We offer an RRSP plan to help you plan for your future.
• Learning & Development: We provide an annual education budget and a comprehensive L&D program.
• Wellness Support: We reimburse monthly for things like home internet, meals, and wellness memberships/equipment to support your overall health and happiness.
• Team Connection: Virtual team-building activities and socials to keep our team connected, because building strong relationships is key to succes.

Please note that the role compensation details below reflect the base salary only and do not include any equity, or benefits. This represents the salary range that Affinity believes, in good faith, at the time of this posting, that it will pay for the posted job. 

A reasonable estimate of the current range is $180,000 to $270,000 CAD. Within the range, individual pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant.