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Valsoft

Acquires, grows vertical market software companies

Head of Engineering

Engineering LeadershipConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeSaint-Laurent, Montreal, QC, CanadaNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 8 years of software engineering experience, including at least 4 years leading engineering teams and some experience managing managers or tech leads.
  • Proven experience building, structuring, and scaling technology organizations, ideally in high-growth environments.
  • Experience hiring and developing engineering leaders.
  • Ability to apply hands-on technical depth, review architecture, contribute to design reviews or incidents, and exercise respected technical judgment; daily production coding is not expected.
  • Strong judgment on build-versus-buy decisions, technical debt, and allocation of engineering capacity, with the ability to explain decisions in business terms to a non-technical executive team.
  • Track record of installing delivery processes in a fast-moving team, including planning cadence, release discipline, on-call, and metrics to measure effectiveness.
  • Demonstrable ambition and potential to grow into a Chief Technology Officer role.
  • Preferred experience in payments, fintech, or other regulated, high-availability environments such as PCI DSS or SOC 2.
  • Preferred experience in a high-growth or private-equity-backed environment, or integrating engineering teams from acquisitions.
  • Preferred experience with multi-tenant platforms or API-first product architecture.

Responsibilities

  • Own engineering delivery end to end, including planning, execution, release cadence, and quality, and make delivery predictable for the business.
  • Build and lead the engineering management layer by hiring, developing, and coaching engineering managers, tech leads, and senior or staff engineers, and establish a durable organizational structure.
  • Partner with Product on roadmap feasibility, sequencing, and trade-offs; own how and when work is delivered.
  • Set and enforce technical standards across architecture, code quality, testing, observability, and documentation so the platform can scale with business growth.
  • Serve as the senior technical escalation point for integrations with core payments partners Adyen and Fiserv, resolve complex issues, and feed lessons back into the platform.
  • Drive AI adoption in the software development lifecycle, developer productivity, and product where it measurably improves outcomes.
  • Own engineering operations and reliability, including on-call, incident response, postmortems, and service-level agreements required by a PCI DSS Level 1 payments platform.
  • Partner with security and compliance to maintain PCI DSS certification and meet multi-jurisdiction obligations as the platform expands.
  • Build organizational capability so the team can increasingly handle incidents without the Head of Engineering.
  • Establish engineering managers or tech leads with clear scope and accountability.
  • Create a predictable delivery rhythm with commitments that are met and slippage surfaced early.
  • Establish and improve baseline metrics for throughput, lead time, change failure rate, and incident response.
  • Put AI use cases into real use within engineering rather than leaving them as pilots.
  • Define and drill on-call and incident response processes so incidents are increasingly resolved without the Head of Engineering present.
  • Document, align on, and ensure adherence to technical standards and architecture direction.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in payments, fintech, or other regulated, high-availability environments, including PCI DSS, SOC 2, or similar.
  • Experience in a high-growth or private-equity-backed environment, or integrating engineering teams from acquisitions.
  • Experience with multi-tenant platform or API-first product architecture.

About the Company

Valsoft

Acquires, grows vertical market software companies

Valsoft is a company that buys software businesses that serve specific, essential industries (like automotive and broadcasting) and helps them grow over the long term. It focuses on vertical market software—programs that are built for a particular industry—and keeps the acquired companies independent while giving them extra resources, best practices, and access to a global network. The core idea is to improve how these software businesses operate and expand their reach, rather than building new products from scratch. The main way Valsoft works is to purchase a niche software company, streamline its operations, and partner with the existing management team to drive steady growth. This approach sets Valsoft apart from others by emphasizing patient, long-term ownership and collaboration within a diverse portfolio of niche software. The goal is to create durable, profitable companies that continue to serve their essential customers efficiently and expand into new markets.

Company size
501-1,000
Company stage
Growth Equity (Venture Capital)
Total funding
$420M
Headquarters
Montreal, Canada
Founded
2015

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