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Director of Software Development

Loopioabout 18 hours ago
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

About Loopio

Software Development