Director, Engineering in Markham, Ontario at Accommodations Plus International

About Accommodations Plus International

API is the global leader in crew accommodation technology & services for the airline industry, with a strong service base in rail, cruise lines and sports teams. For more than 40 years, we have been offering a powerful combination of crew accommodation services delivered through innovative technology, unique software solutions, and a highly experienced team of service professionals, enabling our clients to maximize savings in all areas of travel operations.

Our Company is globally-supported by 794 employees and full-time dedicated consultants working from 59 locations around the world and is privately-held and headquartered in Melville, Long Island, New York.

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.