Technical Director
- Toronto, ON, Canada
Full-time
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- Job type
- Full-time
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- Experience
- 10+ years building complex software, including time as a Staff, Principal or lead engineer with architectural ownership of a production system, and experience leading senior teams
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
About Parallelz
Parallelz is building a new technology platform for delivering and discovering mobile applications. We let developers turn existing mobile apps and games into web-native experiences that run instantly in the browser, anywhere, with no changes to their code and no app store in between. Our games now run inside partner platforms, and we are scaling the system that delivers them.
AI is central to how we work. Every engineer pairs with capable agents, and agentic workflows run through how we triage, build, review, ship and operate. Our team and advisors include technologists from Google, Mozilla and MIT Media Lab, and we are backed by global venture funds and angel investors.
About The Role
As Technical Director, you will own the technical direction of Parallelz and lead a senior engineering team. You will work closely with the CEO and product leadership to turn priorities into architecture. You will stay close to the code: setting the design for the hardest problems, reviewing the work that matters, and building the agent-driven engineering system the team ships through.
This role suits a builder who has grown into leadership and still designs, writes and reviews software every day.
We value in-person collaboration. This role is based in our downtown Toronto office three or more days per week.
What You'll Do
Must-haves:
Parallelz is building a new technology platform for delivering and discovering mobile applications. We let developers turn existing mobile apps and games into web-native experiences that run instantly in the browser, anywhere, with no changes to their code and no app store in between. Our games now run inside partner platforms, and we are scaling the system that delivers them.
AI is central to how we work. Every engineer pairs with capable agents, and agentic workflows run through how we triage, build, review, ship and operate. Our team and advisors include technologists from Google, Mozilla and MIT Media Lab, and we are backed by global venture funds and angel investors.
About The Role
As Technical Director, you will own the technical direction of Parallelz and lead a senior engineering team. You will work closely with the CEO and product leadership to turn priorities into architecture. You will stay close to the code: setting the design for the hardest problems, reviewing the work that matters, and building the agent-driven engineering system the team ships through.
This role suits a builder who has grown into leadership and still designs, writes and reviews software every day.
We value in-person collaboration. This role is based in our downtown Toronto office three or more days per week.
What You'll Do
- Own the architecture and technical roadmap across our platform, balancing performance, reliability and cost as usage grows
- Lead hands-on on the hardest technical problems, working alongside senior engineers from design through production
- Design and run our AI-native development system: the agent workflows, guardrails and quality gates that take work from ticket to production
- Turn product and partner priorities into clear technical plans, and own delivery of the platform behind our live products and host integrations
- Grow a senior team with high standards for craft and AI-native work, and lead hiring and development for your reports
- Represent Parallelz technically with partners and across the wider group, including architecture reviews and technical due diligence
Must-haves:
- 10+ years building complex software, including time as a Staff, Principal or lead engineer with architectural ownership of a production system, and experience leading senior teams
- Deep daily fluency with AI coding agents and agentic systems, a track record of bringing those workflows to a whole team, and a clear view on how to verify their output
- A record of shipping live products in early-stage, venture-backed environments
- Depth in performance-critical, deeply technical systems
- Clear written and verbal communication, and comfort working directly with the Founder in a hybrid team
- Deep-tech, infrastructure or developer platform companies
- Gaming, ad tech or consumer platform companies
- Early-stage, zero-to-one experience as a founder or early technical leader, taking a product from idea to live users
- Competitive salary and equity
- Group Retirement Savings Plan matching
- Health, dental and vision coverage, including a Health and Wellness spending account
- Generous time off
- Access to leading AI tools and platforms
More about this job
Responsibilities
Own Parallelz’s technical direction, architecture, and roadmap, while leading hands-on work on its most challenging platform problems and delivering live products and partner integrations. Build and operate the team’s AI-native development workflows, grow and lead a senior engineering team, and represent the company in technical discussions with partners.
Requirements
Requires 10+ years building complex software, including architectural ownership of production systems and experience leading senior engineering teams. Candidates should have deep daily fluency with AI coding agents and agentic systems, experience scaling those workflows across a team, and a record of shipping live products in early-stage environments, particularly in performance-critical technical systems.
Skills
- Technical Leadership
- Software Architecture
- Technical Roadmapping
- AI Coding Agents
- Agentic Workflows
- Performance Optimization
- Reliability Engineering
- Cost Optimization
- Production Systems
- Platform Engineering
- Software Development
- Technical Hiring
- Team Development
- Partner Integrations
- Technical Communication
- Technical Due Diligence
Benefits
- Competitive Salary
- Equity
- Group Retirement Savings Plan Matching
- Health, Dental, and Vision Coverage
- Health and Wellness Spending Account
- Generous Time Off
- Access to Leading AI Tools and Platforms
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Categories
- Technology
- Software
- Engineering
- Management & Leadership
Keywords
- Mobile Applications
- Mobile Games
- Web-Native Experiences
- Browser Platform
- AI Coding Agents
- Agentic Workflows
- Software Architecture
- Technical Roadmap
- Platform Engineering
- Performance
- Reliability
- Cost Optimization
- Production Systems
- Live Products
- Partner Integrations
- AI-Native Development
- Quality Gates
- Early-Stage Companies
- Venture-Backed
- Deep Tech
- Infrastructure
- Developer Platforms
- Gaming
- Ad Tech
- Consumer Platforms
- Technical Due Diligence