Director of Software Development
Toronto, Ontario, Canada {{REMOTE}}
$177,800 - $220,000/yearly
Senior Level
Full-Time
Top Benefits
Robust Health Benefits
Extended Parental Leave
Employee Stock Options
About the role
- We’re looking for a Director of Software Development to lead our RFX I/O Mission Team, which is responsible for the systems that power how customers bring RFPs, RFIs, and other formal procurement documents into the Loopio platform and deliver winning proposals back out
- This includes our document ingestion pipelines, portal integrations, AI-assisted import experiences, and the emerging intelligence layer that makes content extraction smarter and faster
- This is a strategic and deeply technical leadership role for someone who has solved hard document processing problems before, parsing complex formats, building reliable ingestion pipelines, and applying AI/ML to improve accuracy and reduce manual effort
- You’ll lead multiple engineering pods, including other managers, and work closely with Product, Data Science, Infrastructure, and Design to shape how customers interact with proposal documents at scale
- Lead and grow multiple engineering pods, including supporting other managers and technical leads
- Foster a high-performing, inclusive engineering culture centered on accountability, autonomy, and craft
- Mentor and develop engineering leaders through coaching, clear feedback, and career investment
- Attract, retain, and nurture top technical talent
- Drive the architecture and evolution of Loopio’s document ingestion and processing platform, covering source documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF) and customer portal integrations
- Partner with Data and ML teams to integrate AI-powered extraction, auto-mapping, conditional logic detection, and document understanding models into the import pipeline
- Make technical decisions that balance short-term velocity with long-term scalability, accuracy, and maintainability
- Provide hands-on architectural guidance to ensure robust handling of complex, unstructured, and non-standard document formats
- Oversee planning, prioritization, and execution across multiple pods, ensuring delivery against a roadmap that directly impacts customer retention and deal conversion
- Collaborate with Product and Design partners to translate customer pain points into reliable, intelligent ingestion experiences
- Proactively manage technical dependencies, risks, and cross-team coordination - particularly across import, export, and portal integration workstreams
- Champion high-quality engineering practices including observability, testing, and performance optimization across ingestion and processing systems
- Lead incident response and root cause analysis for document processing failures
- Continuously refine workflows, tooling, and delivery processes for team efficiency
- Serve as a key technical voice in strategic planning for the RFX I/O Mission Roadmap
- Collaborate with Data, Infrastructure, and Platform teams on scalable solutions for document parsing, indexing, and content structuring
- Effectively communicate technical decisions and trade-offs to stakeholders across the business, including senior leadership
- Explore and implement AI/ML techniques to improve document understanding, intelligent field extraction, and automation of repetitive manual tasks in the ingestion process
- Keep up with trends in document AI, unstructured data processing, LLM-based extraction, and enterprise portal integrations
- Encourage experimentation in how users interact with complex procurement documents, reducing friction throughout the proposal process
Benefits
- Robust Health Benefits
- Extended Parental Leave
- Employee Stock Options
- Professional Mastery Budget
- Annual Company Retreat
- Generous Paid Time Off Program
- Remote Work Subsidies
- Team Socials- Experience building and scaling document ingestion and processing systems - handling complex, real-world file formats reliably at scale
- 10+ years of experience in software development, including 3–5+ years in engineering leadership roles
- Technical fluency in building reliable backend systems, with experience navigating the complexity of real-world document formats and data quality challenges
- Proven success managing and scaling multiple engineering pods and/or other managers
- Familiarity with AI/ML applied to document understanding - such as extraction, classification, layout analysis, or structured data recognition
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field — or equivalent industry experience
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to connect technical decisions to business outcomes
- Track record of building inclusive, high-trust team environments
- Experience with SaaS platforms, especially multi-tenant architectures
- Whether or not your experience ✅ checks off all the boxes on a job posting, we still encourage you to apply to ensure that your application receives a review from our team
- Experience with structured and unstructured document formats (DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, PDF) and their parsing challenges
- Prior work on products where accuracy and user trust in automated processing were critical success metrics
- Background in ML/AI pipelines applied to document processing, OCR, or NLP-based extraction