VP, Head of Engineering

Fig•Toronto, ON

1d•CA$185,000 - CA$205,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Fig is a Canadian fintech company focused on making personal lending simpler, faster, and more accessible. They offer fully digital personal loans with quick application processes and decisions. Since launching in 2023, Fig has experienced rapid growth and received industry recognition. The company is supported by Fairstone Bank of Canada and the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. This role is crucial for Fig's evolution from a single-product lender to a multi-product financial platform. The Head of Engineering will be a key leader, shaping the company's technology strategy, engineering culture, and platform architecture. This position is ideal for someone with strong technical judgment, operational acumen, and business understanding. The role involves bringing new financial products to market, defining engineering strategy, and building the technical foundation for future growth. The ideal candidate is a pragmatic builder, comfortable with architecture discussions, team mentorship, execution improvement, executive-level communication, and leveraging modern tools, automation, and AI. They should thrive in ambiguous, regulated environments, balancing speed, quality, and risk.

Requirements

Judgment to operate effectively across fast-moving startup environments and regulated financial ecosystems, balancing urgency, collaboration, technical quality, and risk.
Experience building, launching, and scaling products in fintech, lending, banking, payments, or similarly regulated industries.
Strong technical judgment and experience guiding architecture and engineering decisions across complex systems and evolving platforms.
A track record of balancing execution speed with scalability, reliability, security, and long-term maintainability.
Experience leading teams through ambiguity, helping organizations navigate evolving priorities, new opportunities, and complex tradeoffs.
Strong leadership instincts and experience building healthy, high-performing engineering cultures.
Experience managing external vendors, development agencies, or distributed engineering teams and integrating them effectively.
Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence decisions and build alignment across technical, operational, and business stakeholders.
A pragmatic, hands-on mindset and willingness to dive into problems directly when needed.
Curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with strong instincts for applying them thoughtfully to improve engineering productivity and operational effectiveness.
Strong systems thinking and a bias toward building simple, scalable, resilient solutions.

Responsibilities

Lead Fig's engineering strategy, technical roadmap, and platform architecture.
Bring Fig's next generation of financial products to market, partnering with internal teams and external development partners.
Align technology decisions with business strategy, operational priorities, and long-term company growth.
Build and lead a high-performing engineering organization with a strong culture of ownership, execution, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Guide key technical decisions across infrastructure, security, scalability, reliability, and engineering quality.
Lead internal engineering efforts and external development partners, ensuring strong execution, accountability, and delivery quality.
Improve engineering workflows, tooling, automation, and AI-enabled processes.
Work cross-functionally across Product, Operations, Risk, Compliance, and CX to build scalable, secure, customer-centric systems.
Serve as a key technical voice in executive and board-level discussions related to technology strategy, operational risk, scalability, and company growth.