Director of Engineering in Markham, Ontario at Accommodations Plus International

About API
Accommodations Plus International (API) is the global leader in crew accommodation and travel logistics, powering over 18 million crew room nights each year for 100+ airlines and travel operators worldwide. Our Global reach ensures that airline crews are rested, transported, and connected so global aviation runs on time.

Position Overview:
We’re hiring an Engineering Director to lead a team of 10–20 engineers building scalable, production-grade systems. This is a newly created role reporting to the SVP of Engineering. It combines hands-on technical leadership with strategic oversight—you’ll set direction, elevate engineering standards, and drive delivery.
This is a hybrid role based in our Markham, Ontario office.

Success in this Role

• Delivery: the team consistently ships on commitments against the product roadmap
• Modernization: meaningful progress moving the platform off legacy patterns toward a modern, cloud-native architecture
• Velocity: measurable increase in delivery speed (cycle time, deploy frequency, lead time for change)
• Engineering Excellence: best practices instilled across the team, including code review, testing, CI/CD, observability, and on-call discipline

What You’ll Do

Essential Functions: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Key responsibilities

• Leadership & Team Building: Lead and grow a team of 10 to 20 engineers across North America and India, fostering a high performance collaborative culture across time zones.
• Technical Leadership: Own architecture and system design across the stack. Drive delivery of Brcomplex, distributed systems on AWS. Stay close enough to the code to make sharp technical calls and mentor engineers on craft.
• Cross-Functional Impact: Partner with product and business leaders to translate strategy into technical roadmap. Drive alignment across teams and influence technical strategy.
• Delivery & Execution: Own delivery against the product and platform roadmap. Improve engineering velocity through process, tooling and best practice.
• Engineering Excellence: Raise the bar on code quality, testing, and operational excellence. Build strong observability and incident response practice. Leverage modern AI tools to improve productivity and quality.

What You’ll Bring

Minimum Qualifications

• At least 7 years of software development experience, with 3+ years leading a team. This includes hiring, performance management, and developing senior engineers
• Deep technical background in Java and Angular (or a comparable modern frontend framework such as React or Vue)
• Solid experience with Oracle, Postgres, or similar relational databases, including schema design, performance tuning, and the hard parts
• Working experience with NoSQL databases (e.g. DynamoDB, MongoDB, Cassandra) and a clear sense of when to reach for them
• Production AWS experience across compute, networking, and data services
• Ability to comprehend and contribute to systems design, including scalability, reliability, trade-offs, and failure modes
• Demonstrable use of AI tools in the software development lifecycle, such as coding assistants, agentic workflows, code review, and test generation. You should be able to show concretely how you and your teams ship faster and better with AI

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience modernizing legacy Java systems, multi-region AWS deployments.

Education

• BSc/BA in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work

• Experience modernizing legacy Java systems, multi-region AWS deployments.

Supervisory Responsibility

• 3+ years of leadership experience

What’s In it for You

• RRSP with employer matching
• Paid Time Off
• Extended health insurance, LTD, life insurance, and Employee Assistance Program
• High-growth oriented environment with results-driven team
• Opportunity to create high-impact change for real users worldwide

Compensation
Good faith annual salary range for this position is $190,000 to $200,000 CAD and is commensurate with experience and location.

Who We Are

API is the global leader for crew accommodation solutions, and we are changing the way businesses manage travel. Our technology platform streamlines the entire crew planning process, making day-to-day operations more efficient and elevating the crew layover experience. API’s proprietary technology, mobile solutions and our experienced team are positioned to offer our clients a complete, end-to-end platform that integrates seamlessly into their process. We are looking for dynamic, creative, and tech savvy individuals to join our team. If you are passionate about hard work, providing impeccable service, technology, and solutions to our clients then API may be a great fit for you!

Other Duties

Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time according to business needs.

The performance of additional responsibilities if you are designated as a Data Protection Champion (DPC), Senior Information Risk Owner (SIRO) or Information Assurance Accounting Officer (IAAO).

Work Environment

This position operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.

AAP/EEO Statement

Accommodations Plus International is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, alienage or national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability or handicap, sex, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic information, arrest record, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. Our management team is dedicated to this policy with respect to recruitment, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, benefits, employee activities and general treatment during employment.